PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Brenden Abbott (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arjen Overeem (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Overeem's choice of entrance music: Switchblade Smiles. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Abbott
vs
Overeem

179 cm
37
186 lbs
42 - 18 - 0

183 cm
28
184 lbs
13 - 4 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Conviction

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 42 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Brenden Abbott!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Arjen Overeem!
The judges for this bout are Vladimir Khabensky, Dmitry Maklakov and Konstantin Menshow.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Abbott drives through with a takedown into guard.
Overeem being controlled here, momentarily.
Abbott is looking to work some ground and pound but Overeem has wrist control.
Abbott postures up in Overeem's guard and throws a big left but Overeem blocks it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Abbott postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Overeem pulls Abbott in close to his closed guard and prevents Abbott from doing any damage or advancing position.
Abbott wants to pass the guard but Overeem is keeping the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Overeem looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Abbott trying to control but Overeem is working from the bottom.
Abbott working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Overeem has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.
Abbott postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Abbott prevents Overeem from getting back to his feet.
Abbott scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Abbott throws an elbow that misses. Overeem uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Abbott's guard. Nice move by Overeem!

Overeem preventing the sweep.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Abbott pulls Overeem in close to prevent any damage.
Abbott keeping full guard, as Overeem tries to pass.
Abbott controlling the position.
Overeem won't allow Abbott to sweep him here.
Abbott is adopting a defensive guard.
Abbott tries to land a sweep but no joy.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Abbott keeping moving, preventing Overeem from controlling successfully.
The referee claps his hands together and tells the fighters to work.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Abbott is on top in guard.

Abbott throws a strike but Overeem rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

Overeem being controlled here momentarily.
Overeem works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Abbott controlling the position well.
Abbott wants to control but Overeem is keeping busy and won't allow it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Overeem is trying to control. Abbott wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Overeem looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Abbott slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Abbott wants to sweep but no luck.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brenden Abbott dominated that round.
That's time! Abbott's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Abbott misses with a hook

and Overeem moves into the clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Overeem.
Abbott lands a left hand that snaps the head of Overeem backwards.
Overeem's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Abbott creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Overeem fails to land.
A nice left hand lands by Abbott.
Abbott lands a right hand that snaps the head of Overeem backwards.

Overeem escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Overeem misses with an attempted mid kick.
Overeem slips under a jab.
Overeem looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Overeem is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Abbott.
Abbott takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The fighters circling - Overeem throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Overeem misses with a hook.
Abbott takes one to the chin there.
Overeem misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Abbott.
Abbott lands a front kick.
Abbott ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Overeem moves away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Abbott throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Overeem sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Abbott shoots in for a takedown but Overeem shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Overeem misses with a looping left.
Overeem uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
Abbott needs to keep his hands up - Overeem had a free shot at his head there.
Abbott throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Overeem throws a head kick that looked like it stung.

It looks like Brenden Abbott has been cut.
Abbott keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Abbott pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Abbott dodges the punch combination from Overeem.
Overeem tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Overeem lands a jab to the head.
Overeem lands with a straight right. Abbott didn't see that one coming.
Abbott takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.

Abbott is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Abbott misses with a looping left.
Oh Abbott is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Overeem pounces like a tiger and cracks Abbott with a vicious hook! Abbott is down but not out! Overeem follows up with more strikes forcing the ref to jump in and stop it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Arjen Overeem!
Arjen Overeem is the new welterweight champion!
Arjen Overeem decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.