PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lenny Garcia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andrew Sanders (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The fight MMA fans around the world have waited their entire lives for!

Garcia
vs
Sanders

183 cm
24
191 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

178 cm
25
192 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Decent elbows
Big heart

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Lenny Garcia!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Andrew Sanders!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, Richard Clark and James Ackerman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sanders lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Sanders takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.

Garcia darts in and clinches Sanders up against the cage.
Garcia gets through Sanders's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Sanders misses with a knee strike.
Sanders with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Sanders tries to land a knee to the head but Garcia blocks with his arms.
Sanders stalling the fight.
Garcia throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Garcia stalling in the clinch but Sanders improves position.
Sanders unloads a knee to the mid-section. Garcia lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Garcia stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Sanders blocks an elbow strike.
Sanders throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Garcia blocks it with crossed arms.
Sanders using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Garcia has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Sanders tries a knee to the head but Garcia blocks it.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Garcia lands a body punch in the clinch.
Sanders looks winded!
A short uppercut from Garcia.
Garcia pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Garcia just misses with a elbow thrown towards Sanders's brow.
Garcia is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia has Sanders pushed against the cage.
Garcia lands an uppercut.
Garcia is trying to maintain a safe position but Sanders gets an underhook and turns Garcia into the cage.
Garcia slows down the pace here.
Sanders with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Sanders blocks an elbow strike from Garcia.
Sanders avoids a wild elbow strike from Garcia.
Sanders blocks the elbow strike.
Sanders looking to throw knees to the head but Garcia is blocking nicely.
Sanders avoids the elbow strike from Garcia, against the cage.
Garcia throws an elbow but it misses.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Garcia lands a right hand that snaps the head of Sanders backwards.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sanders misses with a knee strike.
Sanders throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Garcia blocks it with crossed arms.
Garcia misses with an elbow over the top.
Sanders tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Garcia throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Sanders connects with a knee to the head.
Garcia taking a breather.
Sanders landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Sanders with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A hook to the body from Garcia.
Garcia stalling the fight.
Garcia will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Sanders up against the cage.
Garcia looking to stall.
With the fighters up against the cage, Garcia throws an elbow but misses.
Sanders scores with a knee to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Garcia just misses with a elbow thrown towards Sanders's brow.
Sanders blocks an elbow strike from Garcia.
Sanders tries to land a knee to the head but Garcia blocks with his arms.
Garcia taking a breather.
Garcia displaying some good clinch control by pressing Sanders up against the cage.
Garcia creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Sanders blocks an elbow strike.
Sanders with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Garcia lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Sanders putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Garcia in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
A right handed body shot lands from Garcia.
Garcia wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
A right handed body shot lands from Garcia.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Garcia just misses with a elbow thrown towards Sanders's brow.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Garcia.
Garcia taking a breather.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sanders has had enough of the clinch but Garcia keeps him there for the moment.
Garcia gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Garcia misses with an elbow strike.
Garcia lands a body shot.
Garcia lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Sanders or not.
Sanders avoids a wild elbow strike from Garcia.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Garcia pushes off an throws an elbow but Sanders leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Garcia tries to work over Sanders's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Garcia can't break the clinch.
Garcia taking a breather.
A nice right hand lands inside from Garcia.
Sanders throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Garcia blocks it with crossed arms.
Sanders tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Garcia avoids it.
Sanders avoids the elbow strike from Garcia, against the cage.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Garcia just misses with a elbow thrown towards Sanders's brow.
Sanders tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

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

Sanders gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Garcia gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Sanders is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lenny Garcia!
Lenny Garcia retains his middleweight title!