PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jose Mercado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ric Crowell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mercado comes to the cage accompanied by Marabahaya. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mercado
vs
Crowell

190 cm
25
200 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

188 cm
18
205 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very quick

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite 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 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Jose Mercado!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ric Crowell!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Shirou Masuda and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Crowell will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Crowell.

Crowell working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Crowell scores with a couple of short elbows.
Crowell grinds an elbow into Mercado's temple.
Mercado is trying to buck Crowell off.
Mercado is breathing heavily.
Crowell working the ground and pound.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Mercado wants to get back to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mercado gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
Mercado is in a horrible position here. Crowell smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.

Mercado is rocked!
Crowell lands a big shot to the head and Mercado winces in pain. He's tapped out due to strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Ric Crowell!
Our winner, Ric Crowell, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
Jose Mercado was interviewed post fight and said 'babalik ako at muling lalaban'.