PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Donte Gray (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tommy Curad (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Curad has chosen I stand alone as his entrance music. Donte Gray is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Gray
vs
Curad

160 cm
25
194 lbs
2 - 5 - 0

184 cm
25
185 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Experienced

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Tends to cut

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 2 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Donte Gray!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Tommy Curad!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fray, Ryoma Takatsuka and Paul Gruel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Curad throws a left and a right that both miss

and Gray decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Curad's guard.
Gray stays in close to Curad's body and controls the position.
Curad is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Gray has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Curad is proving hard to escape from.
Gray content to stall in guard here.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Curad keeping moving, preventing Gray from controlling successfully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gray wants to stand but Curad is controlling his posture from full guard.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Curad can do anything to dispel that myth.

Gray stands and steps away. Curad gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
Gray dodges the punch combination from Curad.
Curad lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Gray circles away quickly and effectively.
Gray slips a jab and a cross from Curad.
Curad throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Gray.

Curad drops Gray with a beautiful combination! Gray stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Curad is looking for the KO!

Gray is rocked!

It looks like Donte Gray has been cut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Curad moves in close and cracks Gray with a massive right hand! Gray, frozen momentarily in time, tumbles to the canvas, already out cold! A brutal knockout by Curad!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:07 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Tommy Curad!
A relieved looking Tommy Curad thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.