PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricky Shopionus (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Javier Martinez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shopionus comes into the arena with Truck stop - Baja maja blaring out of the sound system. Martinez has chosen McFadden and Whitehead - Ain't no stopping us now as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Shopionus
vs
Martinez

186 cm
29
215 lbs
7 - 4 - 0

182 cm
23
222 lbs
6 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

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 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ricky Shopionus!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Javier Martinez!
The judges for this bout are Russell Pearce, Anthony Taglia and John Roberts.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shopionus looks to land a left hand but Martinez moved out of range nicely.
Shopionus scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!

It looks like Javier Martinez has been cut.
Shopionus tries to clinch but Martinez moves out of range.
Shopionus scores with a shot to the body.
Martinez takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Martinez walks into a left hand.
Shopionus looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Martinez avoids the body shot from Shopionus.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Shopionus closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Shopionus scores with a shoulder strike.
Martinez swings wildly with an uppercut but Shopionus uses good head movement to avoid it.
Shopionus tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Martinez's elbow.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Martinez pushes Shopionus back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Martinez misses with some punches.
Shopionus leaning his opponent against the cage.
Shopionus lands a hook to the side of the head.
Shopionus lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Martinez backwards.
Shopionus doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Shopionus blocks an uppercut.
Shopionus swings wildly with an uppercut but Martinez uses good head movement to avoid it.
Shopionus swings wildly with an uppercut but Martinez uses good head movement to avoid it.
Shopionus lands a left hand.
Martinez working aggressively here.

Martinez is trying to trip Shopionus. He has hold of a leg but Shopionus is hopping around, keeping his balance for the moment. Martinez persists though and gets the takedown into guard.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Martinez's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Martinez landing with the ground and pound.
Shopionus not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martinez throws a big right hand that misses.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Shopionus controlling the position.
Martinez throws a big right hand that misses.
Martinez throws a big elbow that misses.
Martinez throwing strikes from guard but Shopionus blocks nicely.
Shopionus working a defensive guard here.
Martinez postures up in Shopionus's guard and throws a big left but Shopionus blocks it.
Martinez scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Martinez accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Shopionus controls Martinez momentarily but Martinez frees himself.
Martinez throwing strikes from guard but Shopionus blocks nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Martinez missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Martinez with a flurry of punches that miss.
Martinez landing with the ground and pound.

Shopionus is rocked!
Martinez postures up from his opponent's guard, before exploding into some vicious ground and pound! Shopionus covers up, he's hurt! Martinez keeps throwing the strikes, glancing at the referee... Will he stop it?? One more big shot from Martinez and the ref steps in to end the fight! Martinez can't hide his delight as he celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Javier Martinez!
After the big win, Javier Martinez made sure to do all the important stuff like thanking his sponsors AnonymouS and telling the interviewer how much he loves him.
Ricky Shopionus was interviewed post fight and said 'Sorry everybody.. Now im gonna go be trainer of younger fighters to Holding cell gym. '.