PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Tom Haverford (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sean Michaels (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Haverford 's entrance music is Jay-Z & Kanye West - N** In Paris. A fine choice. Sean Michaels acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Haverford
vs
Michaels

180 cm
43
185 lbs
19 - 29 - 0

170 cm
44
183 lbs
15 - 17 - 1

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

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 19 - 29 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Tom Haverford !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 17 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Sean Michaels!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Sergei Dronov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Haverford looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Michaels tries to clinch but Haverford is having none of it.
Haverford has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.

It looks like Tom Haverford has been cut.
Michaels shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Haverford eats them both and turns towards Michaels to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Michaels blocks a leg kick.
Haverford is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Michaels avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Haverford .
Haverford shoots in looking for a takedown. Michaels tries to sprawl out of it but Haverford keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Michaels manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Michaels avoids the head kick by Haverford .
Michaels pulls out of a head kick attempt.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Haverford swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

Michaels moves into the clinch.
Haverford taking a breather.
Haverford tries to land knees in the clinch but Michaels avoids the damage to the body.
Haverford avoiding damage as Michaels throws knees to the body.
Michaels keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Haverford 's efforts to push away.
Haverford blocks an elbow strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Michaels avoiding damage as Haverford throws knees to the body.
Haverford tries to land a knee to the head but Michaels blocks with his arms.
Michaels is struggling to control the position.
Haverford tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Michaels.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Haverford .
Haverford misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Michaels.
Haverford taking a breather.
Michaels lands an elbow inside.
Michaels throws an elbow that misses.
Haverford taking a breather.
Haverford takes an elbow to the forehead.

Tom Haverford 's cut is getting worse.
Haverford scores a nice knee to the body.
Michaels softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Haverford swings wildly with an uppercut but Michaels uses good head movement to avoid it.
Michaels putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Haverford in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Michaels stalling against the cage.
Michaels landing knees to the body.
Haverford is breathing heavily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Michaels stalling the fight.

Haverford breaks the clinch.
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!
Haverford stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.

Michaels closes the distance and clinches.
Haverford is trying to stall.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Haverford can't seem to implement his control oriented gameplan at the moment. That's no bad thing of course, for those of us who want to see a good fight.
Michaels comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Michaels takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Haverford displaying some good clinch control by pressing Michaels up against the cage.
Haverford trying to control the position but instead, Michaels has worked for underhooks and has pushed Haverford into the cage.
Michaels lands an elbow inside that Haverford shrugs off.

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

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Haverford on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Sean Michaels is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
No joy there for Michaels, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Michaels scores with a one two! Haverford had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.

Tom Haverford 's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Haverford misses with a takedown attempt - Michaels sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Michaels misses with a wild combination.
Haverford throws a head kick that misses

and Michaels counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Michaels.
Michaels lands an elbow that stopped Haverford in his tracks for a moment.
A shot in the inside from Michaels.

Jeez, Tom Haverford 's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.
Michaels gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Tom Haverford 's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Sean Michaels!
During a confident post fight interview, Sean Michaels thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.