PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Noel Smith (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Frontier Justice (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Smith comes to the cage accompanied by Duality - Slipknot. Justice has chosen Die for Metal as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Smith
vs
Justice

191 cm
37
224 lbs
32 - 21 - 0

205 cm
32
220 lbs
19 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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 32 - 21 - 0, fighting out of New York, Noel Smith!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Frontier Justice!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Paul Tew and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Smith is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Justice.
Justice ducks right into an uppercut from Smith.
Smith takes a swing at Justice's ribcage but misses.
Smith with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Smith swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Justice.
Smith avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Smith takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Justice cracks Smith with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Smith throws a looping overhand right but Justice ducks down to avoid it.
Justice lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Justice slips under a jab from Smith.
Justice avoids the body shot from Smith.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Smith works the jab nicely.
Smith digs a good body shot into Justice's ribs.
Smith rushes in with a sloppy looking punch

and Justice counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.

Smith is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Justice stands and throws Smith's legs to the side, diving into side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Justice throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Justice misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Justice looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Smith is avoiding damage well.
Justice working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Justice landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Justice lands a few punches from side control.
Justice in side control, throwing shots but Smith defends.
Smith's coaches at Predator Training Center (9 Elite Coaches) have been working on his defensive grappling in preparation for this fight so let's see if he can get out of this tricky position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Smith struggling a bit here.
Justice working the body and head with strikes.
Justice misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Smith taking punishment in the form of punches.
Justice creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Justice postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Justice throws an elbow but Smith slips to the side and avoids it well.
Justice looks up at the clock and then as Smith takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Justice smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Justice throwing strikes but Smith manages to buck up and roll into a nice reversal - now he's on top in side control!
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Justice is trying to get back to half guard.
Justice tries to slip a leg under to move to half guard but Smith presses down on the leg and jumps into full mount!
Justice tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Smith has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Justice's face.
Smith controlling his opponent.
Justice bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Smith working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Justice.
Justice pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Smith is keeping the position for now.
Smith has momentary wrist control but Justice slips an elbow through the middle.

Smith is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Justice is aware though and is defending well.
Justice working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Justice trying to control the position from guard on top but Smith is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Frontier Justice dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Justice does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Justice misses with a double jab.
Justice lands with a straight right. Smith didn't see that one coming.
Smith throws an ugly left hook that misses

and Justice counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
Justice throws a big elbow that misses.
Justice looking to sit in guard and control but Smith gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Justice uses the cage to get back to his feet.
Smith takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Justice ducks under a wild hook from Smith.
Smith checks a low kick from Justice.
Smith throws a hook to the side of Justice's head but Justice sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Justice lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Justice tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Justice throws a shot from downtown. Smith moves away and avoids it.
Smith showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Justice.
Smith thows a left - swing and a miss!

Smith manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Justice on his heels. He'll look to pass Justice's guard now, I'm sure.
Smith stopping the sweep attempt from Justice.
Justice is still trying to improve position.
Justice keeping full guard, as Smith tries to pass.
Justice lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.

Frontier Justice has got the better of the ground game so far.
Justice postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Justice stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Smith swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Smith looking for a sweep. Not yet Smith, not yet.
Smith wants to hit a switch here but Justice passes into full mount! Oh no, disaster for Smith there!
A nice elbow there by Justice.

Smith is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Smith really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Justice cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Oh Smith is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Justice loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Smith scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Justice land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Justice stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Frontier Justice!
In his post fight interview, Frontier Justice started talking himself up. Luckily his charisma kept the crowd on side and gave him a good reception.