PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marcus Dantes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Narsimvarman Maurya (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Maurya's choice of entrance music: 2Pac-Under Pressure . Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Dantes
vs
Maurya

200 cm
32
250 lbs
27 - 9 - 0

197 cm
37
274 lbs
31 - 14 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 27 - 9 - 0, fighting out of New York, Marcus Dantes!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 14 - 0, fighting out of London, Narsimvarman Maurya!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Donald Grub and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dantes lands a nice looking body kick.
Maurya ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Dantes moves away.
Maurya moves out of range of the body kick.
Dantes looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Maurya swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Dantes - that will leave a mark!
Maurya throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Dantes has Maurya up against the cage in a clinch.
Maurya blocking some punches.
Maurya tries to break the clinch but Dantes is controlling the position.
A short left from Dantes.
Maurya misses with a hook from the clinch.
Dantes leaning against his opponent.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Dantes working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Dantes tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

Maurya breaks from the clinch.
Maurya throws a hook but Dantes avoids it easily.
A quick step to the side and Dantes tries to counter with a shot to the body but it doesn't connect.
Maurya misses with a body shot.
An attempted straight right counter from Dantes misses the target.
Maurya pushing out the jab but it's not landing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maurya takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Dantes gets off balance looking for a body kick
and Maurya connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Maurya throws a hook but Dantes blocks it.
A swing and a miss from Maurya.
Maurya looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Maurya throws out a loose jab but Dantes uses good head movement to avoid it.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Maurya crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Dantes - the referee stops the clock and Maurya gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Dantes. Maurya manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Maurya throws a body shot but no joy.
Maurya misses with an uppercut.
Dantes looked to counter that last move with a leg kick but didn't pull the trigger.
Dantes uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Maurya.
Maurya lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Maurya looks to land a right hand but Dantes moved out of range.
Maurya keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Dantes lands a nice leg kick that just misses Maurya's sensitive parts.
Dantes pushes Maurya away with a front kick.
Dantes uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Maurya.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Maurya keeps the fight on the outside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Maurya on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Dantes throws a hook but Maurya blocks it.

Dantes drives through and clinches with Maurya against the cage.
Dantes doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Dantes working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Maurya throws a punch but it's blocked by Dantes.
Dantes tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Dantes misses with a body punch.
Maurya tries a body shot but Dantes blocks it.
A short left from Dantes.
Maurya tries to break free but Dantes pushes him back against the cage.
Nice body punch from Dantes.
Dantes misses with a punch to the body.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Maurya.
Maurya's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Dantes lands a shoulder strike.
Maurya wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Maurya blocks a body shot from Dantes.
Dantes swings wildly with an uppercut but Maurya uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Maurya is trying to break free.
Still in the clinch, Dantes scores with a nice short uppercut.
Maurya struggles to land a body shot inside as Dantes controls his hands.
Dantes lands with a short head shot on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Maurya.
Dantes dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Maurya swings wildly with an uppercut but Dantes uses good head movement to avoid it.
Dantes tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Maurya can't find room to land a body shot as Dantes controls the action.
Dantes blocks a couple of punches on the inside.

Maurya breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Maurya stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Dantes.
Dantes ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Maurya moves away.
Dantes scores with a decent looking hook.
Dantes cracks Maurya with an open hand slap.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Maurya looks to land a left hand but Dantes moved out of range nicely.
Dantes avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Dantes fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Maurya.
Dantes connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Maurya swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Dantes ducks under a wild hook from Maurya.
Maurya on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Dantes moves into range and lands a nice body kick.

Dantes clinches up against the cage.
Dantes prevents Maurya from breaking the clinch.
Dantes struggles to land a body shot inside as Maurya controls his hands.
Dantes misses with a punch to the body.
Dantes blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Maurya misses with a short punch on the inside.
Maurya misses with some punches.
Dantes misses with a hook from the clinch.
Maurya is looking to break free of the clinch but Dantes has double underhooks.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

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

Maurya looks to throw the jab but Dantes is out of range.
Maurya throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Maurya misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Dantes counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Maurya misses with a body shot.
A telegraphed right hand from Maurya misses the target.
Dantes fakes the leg kick and cracks Maurya in the body.
Dantes throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Maurya.
Dantes scores with a hook.
Dantes moves out of range as Maurya strikes.
Maurya throws a right hand that misses
and Dantes counters with a low kick, right behind Maurya 's knee.
Sloppy strikes from Maurya. Those never looked like landing.
Dantes pushes Maurya away with a front kick.
Marcus Dantes is winning the standup battle so far.

Dantes clinches.
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!
Maurya misses with a short punch on the inside.
Maurya tries to throw a body punch but Dantes avoids it by throwing Maurya back against the cage.
Dantes pushes Maurya back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
It really doesn't seem like the step up in weight is hurting Dantes here at all. He's more than holding his own against the bigger man.

Maurya breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maurya walks forward, straight into a front kick from Dantes.
Dantes lands a nice looking kick to the body. Maurya takes a step back to recover.
Maurya is breathing heavily.
Dantes throws a head kick that looked like it stung.

It looks like Narsimvarman Maurya has been cut.

Dantes gets a clinch.
A hook to the body from Dantes.
A short right from Dantes.
Dantes lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Dantes misses with a body punch.
Dantes lands an uppercut.

Maurya is rocked!
Maurya wants to break the clinch but can't.
A hook to the body from Dantes.
Maurya letting Dantes take a breather here.
Dantes lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Maurya is still on wobbly legs! Can Dantes finish him?
Dantes lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Maurya backwards.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Dantes lands with a right to the head.
Nice body punch from Dantes - that landed with a thud.
Dantes throws a big uppercut that drops Maurya! More strikes from Dantes and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Maurya lies dazed against the cage as Dantes celebrates with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Marcus Dantes!
Marcus Dantes spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.