PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matt Laury (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Park Young-Gwon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Young-Gwon has chosen Korean National Anthem as his entrance music. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Laury
vs
Young-Gwon

188 cm
25
217 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

194 cm
20
223 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Matt Laury!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Park Young-Gwon!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Don Winkell and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Young-Gwon wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Laury showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Young-Gwon.
Laury misses with a looping right.
Laury looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Young-Gwon displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Laury throws out the jab.
Laury throws a hook but Young-Gwon blocks it.
Laury looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Young-Gwon connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
Young-Gwon scores with a hook to the body. Laury takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Young-Gwon gets a clinch.
Young-Gwon lands a hook to the side of the head.
Laury wants to break the clinch but can't.
Laury tries to break free but Young-Gwon pushes him back against the cage.

Laury is fighting off a takedown attempt but Young-Gwon is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Laury to the mat. Laury regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.

Young-Gwon stands up from guard. Let's bang!

That's one minute gone in the round.
The fight stays on the outside here - Young-Gwon looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Laury throws an overhand right that lands on Young-Gwon's shoulder, as Young-Gwon tries to avoid the shot.
Young-Gwon will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Laury looks to land a right hand but Young-Gwon moved out of range.
Young-Gwon misses with a series of wild punches.
Young-Gwon looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Young-Gwon swinging wildly here.
Young-Gwon throws a series of punches but Laury avoids them all with ease.
Young-Gwon scores with a jab. Laury acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Young-Gwon scores with a one two! Laury had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.

It looks like Matt Laury has been cut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Young-Gwon bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Laury's head.
Young-Gwon avoids a punch combination nicely.
Young-Gwon looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Young-Gwon staying out of range there.
Young-Gwon misses with the combination.
Laury throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nice defenses there by Young-Gwon.
Young-Gwon swinging wildly here.
Laury looks to throw the jab but Young-Gwon is out of range.
Laury gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Park Young-Gwon seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Laury throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Laury throws a right hand that misses
and Young-Gwon counters with a slapping leg kick.
Matt Laury is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Laury missing with a left hand there. Young-Gwon was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Young-Gwon avoids the body shot from Laury.
Laury circles away from the clinch attempt.
Young-Gwon tries to bum rush Laury with a series of wild strikes but Laury uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Laury misses with an uppercut. Young-Gwon saw that one coming.
Young-Gwon staying out of range there.
Young-Gwon fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Young-Gwon fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
The fighters circling - Laury throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Young-Gwon throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
A big right from Laury misses.
Young-Gwon avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Laury misses with an uppercut.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Laury throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Young-Gwon on the side of the head.
Young-Gwon tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Laury was well out of range. Poor timing from Young-Gwon.
A punch combination from Laury misses.
Laury misses with a wild body shot.
Laury misses with the combination.
Young-Gwon fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
A jab from Laury misses.
Young-Gwon avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Young-Gwon throws a right and a left that both miss.
A nice combination there by Young-Gwon.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Young-Gwon misses with a few strikes there.
Laury throws a series of punches but Young-Gwon moves out of range.
Laury throws a right hand that misses
and Young-Gwon counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Park Young-Gwon dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Matt Laury's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Young-Gwon gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Laury is trying to break the clinch but Young-Gwon is controlling him.
The referee calls for Young-Gwon to work.
Laury is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Young-Gwon lands with a light punch inside.
Laury tries to circle away but Young-Gwon has him pinned against the cage.

Young-Gwon breaks from the clinch.
Laury is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Laury misses with an uppercut.
Laury throws the left hand but Young-Gwon avoids the punch easily.
Laury throws a lazy right hand but Young-Gwon sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Young-Gwon slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Laury misses with a right hand
and Young-Gwon connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Young-Gwon ducks under a wild hook from Laury.
Laury misses with a few strikes there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Laury throws a hook to the side of Young-Gwon's head but Young-Gwon sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Laury misses with a wild body shot.
Young-Gwon lands with a shot to the body.
Young-Gwon throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Young-Gwon throws a right and a left that Laury avoids nicely.
Young-Gwon lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.

Laury is rocked!

Young-Gwon closes the distance and clinches.
Oh Laury is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Young-Gwon creates a bit of space for himself and rocks Laury with a big uppercut! Laury tries to clinch up but Young-Gwon pushes him back against the cage and lands another monster strike that crumples Laury to the mat! Laury covers up and Young-Gwon unloads with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:39 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Park Young-Gwon!
Park Young-Gwon seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.