PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Jack Clark (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Diego Godin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Clark kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Rent a Wreck. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Clark
vs
Godin

168 cm
34
148 lbs
31 - 22 - 1

168 cm
30
141 lbs
19 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Fast

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 31 - 22 - 1, fighting out of New York, Jack Clark!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Diego Godin!
The judges for this bout are Hirohito Nitta, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Clark lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Clark keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Godin takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Godin tries to close the distance and clinch but Clark swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Clark throws an ugly left hook that misses

and Godin counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Clark looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Clark is working hard here to advance position.
Godin tries to free his leg and advance position but Clark is retaining full guard.
Godin is looking to work some ground and pound but Clark has wrist control.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Godin is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Godin looking to sit in guard and control but Clark gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Clark preventing the sweep.
Godin is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Clark slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Godin is adopting a defensive guard.
Godin has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but Clark has passed into side control.
Godin manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Clark has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Godin is working away from the top position though.
Godin trying to control from half guard but Clark is working away.
Godin looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Clark is staying active underneath Godin, who seems content to just control the action from this position.
Godin prevents Clark from improving his position.
Godin wants to lay and pray for a moment but Clark keeps working.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Godin is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Clark moves into full guard.
Godin controls from within his opponent's guard.
Clark tries to land a sweep but no joy.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Clark pulls Godin in close to prevent any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Godin wants to pass the guard but Clark is keeping the position.

The ref stands the fighters back up due to a lack of activity.
Diego Godin seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Godin moves in looking to clinch but Clark pushes him off.
Godin takes one on the button.
Godin keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Nice takedown defense from Clark. No joy for Godin on that attempt.
Clark cracks Godin with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Godin is looking to clinch.
Godin fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Jack Clark has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Diego Godin.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Clark scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Jab by Clark.
Godin tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Clark counters with a nice body shot.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jack Clark dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Clark thuds a left hand into Godin's body.
Godin tries to grapple but his opponent circles
enabling Clark to counter with a crisp jab.
Clark misses with a series of wild punches.
Clark goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

Godin is rocked!
Clark lands an uppercut out of nowhere! Godin falls backwards - clearly groggy! Clark dives in and finishes the fight with more strikes for a TKO finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:39 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jack Clark!
A very excited looking Jack Clark made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.