PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Sandy Marteez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Rain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rain is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Hype you out. John Rain will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Marteez
vs
Rain

157 cm
18
195 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

193 cm
25
189 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Dangerous knees
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Intelligent

VICIOUS FIGHT GEAR

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Sandy Marteez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, John Rain!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Sosuke Kotani and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Marteez clinches with his opponent.
Rain prevents a body shot from Marteez.
Marteez tries to throw a body punch but Rain avoids it by throwing Marteez back against the cage.
Rain unloads a knee to the mid-section. Marteez lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Marteez struggles to land a body shot inside as Rain controls his hands.
Rain just leaning against Marteez, taking a breather.
Marteez tries a body shot but Rain blocks it.
We've been informed that Rain has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Rain is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Rain lands a hook to the side of the head.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Rain lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like Sandy Marteez has been cut.
Rain blocks a body shot from Marteez.
Rain landing knees to the head.
Rain prevents a body shot from Marteez.
Rain scores with a shoulder strike.
Rain connects with a nasty looking knee right to Marteez's face.
Rain stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Nice body punch from Rain.
Marteez could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Marteez is breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rain lands an elbow that stopped Marteez in his tracks for a moment.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Rain.
Rain using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Rain lands a nice uppercut.
Rain with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Rain scores with a nice hook to the head.
Rain lands a right hand that snaps the head of Marteez backwards.

Rain lands a big knee from the Thai clinch and Marteez goes down hard! The ref takes a good look at him but he's still defending himself. Rain in side control.

Marteez is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The crowd goes nuts as Rain knocks Marteez out cold with a massive hammerfist! Rain Jumps to his feet and climbs on top of the cage to celebrate with the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). John Rain!
John Rain was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.