PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Finlay Darrow (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ian McCall (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying McCall's choice of entrance music: The Phantoms - Into the Darkness. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Darrow
vs
McCall

169 cm
22
147 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

165 cm
21
133 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

GREEN!160

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Finlay Darrow!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ian McCall!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, Jorge Garcia and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Darrow uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
McCall throws a combination that misses
and Darrow counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Darrow lands a jab to McCall's midsection.
McCall uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Darrow.
McCall will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Darrow half committed to a counter leg kick.
McCall doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Darrow avoids a punch combination nicely.
McCall rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Darrow moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
We've been hearing reports that Darrow has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
McCall throws a nice looking combination but Darrow bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
McCall throws a series of punches but Darrow avoids them all with ease.
McCall lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
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!

Darrow has taken the fight to the clinch.
McCall avoiding damage as Darrow throws knees to the body.
Darrow tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Darrow lands a hook to the side of the head.
Darrow lands a hook that snaps the head of McCall backwards.
Darrow lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of McCall backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Darrow misses with an elbow strike.
Darrow scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Darrow blocks a body shot from McCall.
McCall tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Darrow scores with a nice hook to the head.
McCall tries to work over Darrow's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Darrow as McCall tries to tie him up.
Darrow prevents a body shot from McCall.
Still in the clinch, Darrow scores with a nice short uppercut.
McCall tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Darrow's elbow.
Darrow blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Darrow fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Darrow lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Darrow prevents a body shot from McCall.
Darrow lands a shot to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Darrow misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Darrow gets through McCall's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
A short uppercut from Darrow.
A short right from Darrow.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Darrow pulls guard.
McCall trying to stand up but can't free himself from Darrow's guard.
Darrow has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Darrow manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. McCall manages to get himself to full guard.

Darrow is stalling in the full guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Darrow forces his way into half guard.
Darrow sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Darrow passes to side control.
Darrow is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Finlay Darrow dominated that 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.

McCall looks to land a combination but Darrow avoids it well.
Darrow tried to counter with a leg kick but McCall avoided it.
McCall doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Darrow fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Darrow fails with an attempt to clinch.
Despite the aggression on McCall's face he doesn't fully commit to the counter.
McCall swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
McCall misses with the combination.
Darrow lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.

Darrow clinches up against the cage.
Darrow lands a nice uppercut.
Darrow working aggressively here.
Darrow lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of McCall backwards.

McCall is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A short uppercut from Darrow.
McCall is still on wobbly legs! Can Darrow finish him?
Darrow pushes McCall against the cage. Darrow is working some dirty boxing. Darrow pushes off with a quick right hook! McCall goes down! McCall tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Darrow moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:53 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Finlay Darrow!