PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Texas Pete (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harry Potter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Pete
vs
Potter

180 cm
25
220 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

190 cm
24
285 lbs
7 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Great low kicks
Very strong

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Texas Pete!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Harry Potter!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Viktor Lagutenko and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pete connects with an inside leg kick.
Pete misses the shot to the body.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Potter! But no joy.
Pete lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Pete looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Pete lands with a thumping leg kick.
A slapping leg kick lands for Pete.
Pete lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Texas Pete seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Decent striking displayed by Pete there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Potter moves away from the strike by Pete.
Potter now looks to counter with a shot at the body.
Pete throws a nice outside leg kick.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Pete, right into the meat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pete fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Potter manages to avoid it.
Texas Pete is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Potter slips under a jab from Pete.
Pete tries a head kick but it misses.
A little jabbing left from Potter on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Potter has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Pete.
Pete throws a big shot that misses.
Nice straight punches there by Pete. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Pete.
Potter takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Pete throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Pete fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Pete.
Pete throws a right hand that misses
and Potter counters with a nice uppercut.
Pete throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Potter takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Pete scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Potter doesn't seem bothered though.
Potter on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Pete 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.
A good leg kick by Pete.
Pete misses with an uppercut
enabling Potter to counter with a crisp jab.
Potter looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pete turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Pete scores with a leg kick.
Decent striking displayed by Pete there.
Pete throws the left hand but Potter avoids the punch easily.
As Pete backs off Potter throws a huge counter combo but Pete manages to avoid it all.
Pete feints and then cracks Potter's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Potter down.
Pete thows a left - swing and a miss!
Potter looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Pete scores with a spinning back kick!
Pete lands with a right hand.
Pete fakes the leg kick and cracks Potter in the body.
Potter checks a low kick from Pete.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pete scores with a leg kick.
Potter on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Pete looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Pete lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
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!
A solid leg kick lands there for Pete.
Pete looks to score with a jab to the body but Potter is just out of range.
Potter looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
A nice inside leg kick there by Pete. That's going to slow Potter down.
Pete throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Potter sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Potter unleashes a big counter combination but Pete bobs and weaves and avoids any damage.
Pete lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Texas Pete dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Pete misses with a head kick.
Pete scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Nice cross by Pete.
Potter's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Pete connects with a solid leg kick.
Pete is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Potter can do to turn this around?
Pete misses with an uppercut. Potter saw that one coming.
And Potter tries to counter it with a takedown but Pete pushes his down on his head and steps out.
Potter avoids the head kick by Pete.
Pete scores with a leg kick.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A good leg kick by Pete.
Potter has developed a nice purple lump on his ribcage, as a result of some heavy body kicks from Pete.
Potter moves out of range of the leg kick from Pete.
Potter with the counter takedown but Pete avoids it easily.
Pete buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pete throws a jab but it's blocked by Potter.
Potter throws out a counter right but Pete avoids it with no problem.
Potter avoids a kick to the body.
Pete swings widly with a right hand
and Potter counters with a straight right hand.
Pete throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Potter sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Potter is loading up here, looking for a big counter of his own.
Texas Pete is winning the standup battle so far.
Pete scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Pete scores with a hook to the body. Potter takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Pete throws a head kick but Potter moves out of range.
A head kick misses from Pete.
Potter tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.
Pete lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Potter on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Potter takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Pete explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Pete with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Pete jabs at Potter's body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Pete throws a head kick that half lands.
Pete lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
An inside leg kick lands from Pete.
Pete lands a nice leg kick that just misses Potter's sensitive parts.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pete fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Potter has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
An inside leg kick from Pete misses.
Potter has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Pete.
Pete scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Potter doesn't seem bothered though.
Potter steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Pete.
A little jabbing left from Potter on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Potter moves out of range as Pete strikes.
Pete dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Potter. That did some damage!
An inside leg kick lands from Pete.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Potter might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Pete has got the better of the exchanges.
Pete lands a nice looking kick to the body. Potter takes a step back to recover.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pete swings and misses with a hook to the body.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Potter! But no joy.
Potter takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Pete throws a nice head kick!
A nice inside leg kick there by Pete. That's going to slow Potter down.
Pete lands with a kick to the ribs.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
A chopping leg kick lands by Pete.
Pete cracks a nice hook into Potter's ribs.
Pete connects with a leg kick. Potter looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Pete throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Texas Pete dominated that second round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Potter sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Pete throws a sloppy head kick and Potter moves out of range easily.
And Potter tries to counter it with a takedown but Pete pushes his down on his head and steps out.
Potter takes a kick to the side of the head.
Pete misses with a hook to the body
and Potter counters with a straight right hand.
Potter keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Potter lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Pete scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Potter doesn't seem bothered though.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Potter takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Potter on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Pete just misses with a punch to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pete misses with a kick to the body.
Pete fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Potter manages to avoid it.
Pete looks to score with a jab to the body but Potter is just out of range.
Potter is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Pete throws a leg kick which misses Potter's front leg but catches the back leg as Potter tries to avoid it.
Potter staying out of range there.
Potter swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Pete throws a nice outside leg kick.
Pete gets off balance looking for a body kick

and Potter decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Pete's guard.
Potter won't allow Pete to get back to his feet.
Potter with a flurry of punches that miss.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Potter throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Pete works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Potter makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Potter loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Potter tries to free his leg and advance position but Pete is retaining full guard.
Potter postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Pete preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Potter working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Potter sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Pete's guard.
Pete avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Potter.
Pete knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Potter on the ground.
Potter performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Potter moves nicely into side control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Potter throws an elbow but Pete slips to the side and avoids it well.
Potter trying to control the action but Pete is working from the bottom.
Potter has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Pete!
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Potter breaks from Pete's wrist control and lands an elbow.

It looks like Texas Pete has been cut.
Potter throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Potter lands a couple of good shots and Pete has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Harry Potter has got the better of the ground game so far.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Potter lands a couple of good shots to his opponent's body and a final shot to the head. Good little attack there by Potter.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Pete is keeping busy.
Potter just keeping the dominant position. He can't wait too long though, otherwise the referee will stand them back up.
Potter lands a couple of good shots to his opponent's body and a final shot to the head. Good little attack there by Potter.
Pete tries to escape the position.
Potter lands a punch to the side of the head from the back.
Good control from Potter.
Potter is continuing to stall.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Harry Potter really dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Texas Pete's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

Pete ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Potter moves away.
It seemed like Potter was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Pete tests Potter's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Pete.
Pete misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Potter stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Pete.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Pete throws a quick inside leg kick.
Pete connects with a leg kick. Potter looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Potter checks a leg kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pete misses with a body kick.
A nice side step and Potter releases a counter shot to the body, but it doesn't find it's home.
Good shot there by Pete.
Potter blocks a head kick by Pete.
Pete throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
Pete lands a jab to Potter's midsection.
Potter takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Pete.
Potter blocks a jab.
Pete lands a jab to the nose.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pete chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Pete throws a nice inside leg kick.
Pete lands with a good body shot.
Pete misses with a hook
and Potter counters with a stiff right hand.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Pete connects with a solid leg kick.
Pete misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Potter.
Potter tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.
Pete throws a quick inside leg kick.
Pete lands a jab.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pete throws a body shot but no joy.
Pete waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Potter.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Potter! But no joy.
Potter stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Pete.
Pete lands with a hook. Potter tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Pete tries to land a leg kick but Potter saw it coming and moves away.
Potter lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Pete finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Pete changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Pete looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Pete misses with a body kick.
It seemed like Potter was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Pete, right into the meat.
A slapping leg kick lands for Pete.
Potter stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Pete.
Potter takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Pete misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Potter.
Potter tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.
Pete takes a swing at Potter's ribcage but misses.
Potter feints the counter takedown.
Pete misses with a body shot.
Potter tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Texas Pete had his way with Harry Potter in that round.
The cut man is working on Texas Pete's cut.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

Potter takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Potter takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Pete throws a leg kick that misses.
Pete is looking to chop away at Potter's legs.
Pete moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Pete throws a leg kick
and Potter counters with a two punch combo.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Pete connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Pete, as that shot connected.
Potter on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pete throws a front kick aimed at Potter's knee but Potter avoids it well.
Potter is looking for the big counter here.
Pete lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Potter blocks a jab.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Potter! But no joy.
Pete throws a looping overhand right but Potter ducks down to avoid it.
It seemed like Potter was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Potter might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Pete throws a nice inside leg kick.
Pete throws a body punch but Potter moves out of range.
Potter drops down looking to force a counter takedown but Pete defends it well.
Good leg kick by Pete there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Pete scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Harry Potter has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pete lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Pete fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Potter.
Potter avoids the head kick by Pete.
Nice body kick from Pete.
Pete throws a nice outside leg kick.
Pete pivots, looking for a leg kick but Potter is out of range and Pete settles back down.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Potter! But no joy.
Pete thuds a left hand into Potter's body.
Pete thows a leg kick but Potter checks it
and Potter counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Pete scores with a slapping inside leg kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pete throws a half hearted mid kick.
Potter feints the counter takedown.
Pete finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Potter is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Pete is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Potter.
As Pete backs off Potter throws a huge counter combo but Pete manages to avoid it all.
A slapping leg kick lands for Pete.
Potter walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Pete changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Potter takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Potter takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pete thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Potter if he has to take too many more of those.
Nice body kick from Pete.
Pete throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
That kick from Pete tenderised Potter's leg. Potter is trying to keep his angry face on.
Pete fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Pete.
Nice jab there from Pete.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Pete works Potter's body with a nice hook.

And that's the end of the fight!
Texas Pete showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Pete has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Sergei Dronov scores the fight 49:43
Judge Viktor Lagutenko scores the fight 49:43
Judge Igor Prikhodko scores the fight 49:43

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Texas Pete!