PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between James Cook (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Aloysius Wiremu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Wiremu has chosen Billy Joel - The River of Dreams as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Cook
vs
Wiremu

188 cm
22
199 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

187 cm
24
187 lbs
7 - 5 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

M.O. Fight Wear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, James Cook!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Aloysius Wiremu!
The judges for this bout are Vladimir Khabensky, Igor Prikhodko and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cook will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Wiremu scores with a head kick.

It looks like James Cook has been cut.
Cook fails to land the takedown.

Cook manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Wiremu on his heels. He'll look to pass Wiremu's guard now, I'm sure.

Wiremu has managed to wall walk up one of the corner posts to get back to his feet. Cook is pushing him up against the cage, looking to control the position.
Wiremu digs a right hand underneath Cook's ribcage. Cook let out a lung full of air as it connected.
A short left from Wiremu.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Wiremu is leaning against Cook and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Cook is breathing heavily.
Wiremu lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Wiremu cracks Cook with a nice body shot.
Wiremu softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Wiremu lands a shoulder strike.
Wiremu lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Cook backwards.
We've been informed that Wiremu has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Wiremu lands an uppercut.
Wiremu lands a right hand.
Wiremu lands with a left to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wiremu lands a nice uppercut.
Wiremu is leaning against Cook and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Wiremu lands a right hand.
A shot in the inside from Wiremu.
Wiremu working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Wiremu lands a hook that snaps the head of Cook backwards.
Wiremu lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Cook misses with a short punch on the inside.
Wiremu lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Wiremu gets through Cook's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

Cook is rocked!
Wiremu lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Oh Cook is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
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!
Wiremu lands a body punch.
Cook takes a shot to the head.
Wiremu creates some distance for himself and unleashes a massive uppercut that sends Cook's eyes rolling into the back of his head! Cook drops to his knees and Wiremu pours it on with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Aloysius Wiremu!
A very excited looking Aloysius Wiremu 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.