PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Josh Howell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harry Highpants (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Howell
vs
Highpants

210 cm
36
223 lbs
20 - 7 - 0

185 cm
32
215 lbs
10 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

BJJ Blue Belt
Great elbows
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Josh Howell!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Harry Highpants!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Topper Green and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Highpants keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
The crowd cheers as Howell lands an impressive looking overhand right. Highpants doesn't seem phased though.
Highpants throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Howell connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Howell misses with a straight left.
Highpants throws a poor cross that misses
letting Howell counter with a right hand.
Highpants misses with a jab, cross combination.
Howell lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Highpants.
Howell lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Howell blocks the body kick.
Howell swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Highpants throws a jab when Howell was well out of range.
Highpants looks to land a combination but Howell avoids it well.
Howell throwing a counter right hand but Highpants manages to avoid it.
Howell is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Highpants looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Highpants throws a right hand that misses
and Howell counters with a left to the body.
Howell staying out of range there.
Highpants gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Highpants swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Howell lands a body shot.
Howell punishes Highpants's body with a nice straight punch.
Highpants misses with a leg kick
and Howell counters with a lovely straight right hand!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Highpants looks to land a combination but Howell avoids it well.
Howell scores with a hook.
A looping hook to the body misses from Highpants. Howell does a little dance to reset his feet.
Howell lands a jab to the head.
Highpants rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Howell counters with a left to the body.
Highpants misses with a combination
and Howell counters with a nice uppercut.
Highpants looks to land a left hand but Howell moved out of range nicely.
Harry Highpants seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Howell scores with a jab.
Highpants moves out of range as Howell strikes.
Howell works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Highpants rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Howell moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Highpants falls off balance throwing a combination
and Howell counters with a nice body shot.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A big right from Howell misses.
Howell avoids the body shot from Highpants.
Howell appears to be looking for a counter punch to the body.
Highpants throws a body shot but no joy.
Howell throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Highpants on the side of the head.
A jab from Howell misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice shot by Howell.
Highpants lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Highpants steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Howell.
Highpants throws a left and a right that both miss
letting Howell counter with a right hand.
A jab from Highpants misses.
Highpants tries to clinch up but Howell circles away and keeps his distance.
No joy there for Highpants, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Howell is looking to counter punch.
Howell really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Highpants throws a series of punches but Howell avoids them all with ease.
Highpants misses with a body punch
and Howell counters with a stiff right hand.
Highpants on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Highpants is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.

Highpants is rocked!
Howell is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Highpants blocks a jab.
Highpants is still on wobbly legs! Can Howell finish him?
Howell misses the shot to the body.
Highpants seems to have recovered his senses.
Howell scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Nice straight punches there by Highpants. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Highpants.
Highpants fails with an attempt to clinch.
Highpants connects with an inside leg kick.
Highpants looks to land a combination but Howell avoids it well.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nice defenses there by Howell.
Highpants wants to clinch.
Highpants fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Highpants keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Howell works the jab nicely.
Highpants buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Highpants throws a left and a right that both miss
and Howell counters with a nice uppercut.
Highpants tries to bum rush Howell with a series of wild strikes but Howell uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Howell swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Howell misses with an uppercut. Highpants saw that one coming.
Highpants takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Howell throws out a powerful jab.
Highpants scores with a shot to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Howell takes a swing at Highpants's ribcage but misses.
Jab by Howell.
Highpants has a pretty nasty looking mouse under his right eye.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Howell throws a combination. Highpants tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Highpants misses with a hook.
Highpants throws a right and a left that both miss.
Howell misses with a wild combination.
Highpants misses with a series of wild punches.
Howell lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Highpants uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Howell.
Highpants ducks under a wild hook from Howell.
Highpants rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Howell moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Howell is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Highpants misses with a few strikes there.
An attempted straight right counter from Howell misses the target.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Highpants on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Highpants steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Howell.
Highpants throws a poor cross that misses
and Howell counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Highpants on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Josh Howell dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Highpants's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Howell connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Highpants scrambles back to his feet.
Josh Howell is winning the standup battle so far.
Highpants throws a sloppy head kick
and Howell cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Howell sizes up Highpants with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Highpants scores with a sloppy right hand. Howell should have avoided that one.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Highpants might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Howell has got the better of the exchanges.
Highpants tries to clinch up.
Howell getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
Highpants cracks Howell with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Highpants rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Howell moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Howell throwing a counter right hand but Highpants manages to avoid it.
Howell throws an overhand right that lands on Highpants's shoulder, as Highpants tries to avoid the shot.
Highpants misses with a double jab
and Howell connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Howell throws a shot from downtown. Highpants moves away and avoids it.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Howell displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Highpants throws out the jab.
Highpants misses with a hook
and Howell connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Howell misses with a body shot.
Howell uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Highpants.
Nice defenses there by Highpants.
Highpants throws a nice looking combination but Howell bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Highpants swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Highpants looks to throw the jab but Howell is out of range.
Howell scores with a jab to the body.

Highpants lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Howell sprawling to the canvas. Highpants follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Howell hang on?

Howell is rocked!
Howell trying to get back to full guard but Highpants takes advantage of the position and moves to full mount!
Oh Howell is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Poor strikes thrown by Highpants there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Highpants throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Howell blocking the ground and pound.
Highpants throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Highpants misses with a head shot.
Highpants is breathing heavily.
Highpants thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Highpants postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Howell in real trouble here! The ref calls for Howell to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:43 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Harry Highpants!
Josh Howell spoke after the fight, saying 'My opposition fought like a 10-year-old girl tonight. I'm not sure if I got knocked out or lost a terrible decision. My head hurts. '.