PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Javier Martinez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Marcus Maclemore (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Martinez comes to the cage accompanied by McFadden and Whitehead - Ain't no stopping us now. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Martinez
vs
Maclemore

182 cm
20
222 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

185 cm
25
212 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

AnonymouS

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 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Javier Martinez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Marcus Maclemore!
The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, Eddie Farnsworth and Franklyn Lucas.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martinez throws a looping overhand right but Maclemore ducks down to avoid it.

Martinez shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Martinez showed some decent athleticism there.
Maclemore is not content to let Martinez control the position.
Maclemore trying to control from the bottom.
Maclemore felt the need to train up his defensive grappling in the buildup to the fight. Presumably he was expecting to be in a difficult position like this, so let's see if he can get out of it.
Maclemore wants to get back to full guard.
Martinez slips a nice elbow through Maclemore's hands, connecting with Maclemore's forehead.
Martinez works his way into side control.
Check out the look on Martinez's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Martinez lands a nice forearm strike.
Maclemore takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Maclemore is looking to regain half guard here but Martinez keeps moving and retains side control.
Maclemore takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.

Maclemore is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maclemore tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Martinez wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Maclemore is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Maclemore is still in real trouble! Can Martinez finish him?
Martinez scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Maclemore is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Martinez can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Javier Martinez!
Our winner, Javier Martinez, 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.