PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Santos Ryan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yohn Royce (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ryan's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Wassup - by ASAP Rocky. 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.

Ryan
vs
Royce

178 cm
34
185 lbs
10 - 8 - 0

175 cm
20
178 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Dangerous knees
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Tends to cut

Slaughterhouse Fight Gear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Santos Ryan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Yohn Royce!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, Gregory Folan and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ryan fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Sloppy strikes from Royce. Those never looked like landing.
Ryan misses with a straight left.

Ryan moves into range and clinches up with Royce.
Royce misses with the head strike.

Royce pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Royce throws a left and a right that both miss
and Ryan connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

Ryan moves into the clinch.
Ryan landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Royce being controlled against the cage.
Royce working aggressively here.
Royce is trying to break free.
Royce working aggressively here.
Ryan with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Yohn Royce has been cut.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Ryan.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Ryan lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ryan lands a nice uppercut.
Royce misses with some punches.
Ryan blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Ryan blocks an uppercut.
Ryan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Ryan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Royce's defenses.
Nice elbow from Ryan.
Royce throws a head punch that misses.
Royce has had enough of the clinch but Ryan keeps him there for the moment.
Ryan lands a hook that snaps the head of Royce backwards.

That has opened up Yohn Royce's cut even more.
Royce working some nice short punches in the clinch.
A short uppercut from Ryan.

Royce is rocked!
Royce blocks an elbow strike.
Royce is still on wobbly legs! Can Ryan finish him?
Ryan lands a big knee to the head and Royce goes down! Ryan pounces and finishes the fight with strikes! He jumps to his feet and celebrates with the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Santos Ryan!
A victorious Santos Ryan thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.