PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Markus Cunningham (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bart Barnes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bart Barnes will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Cunningham
vs
Barnes

157 cm
24
193 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

185 cm
25
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Good in bed

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

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 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Markus Cunningham!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Bart Barnes!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Alec Ball and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Barnes looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Barnes misses with a takedown

and Cunningham counters with a nice double leg into side control. Barnes won't be happy with that.
Cunningham cracks Barnes with a big elbow.
Cunningham could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Cunningham working the ground and pound but Barnes is defending the strikes.
Barnes is not in a great position here, taking some shots.

Barnes wants to control the position but that's not easy when your opponent is in side control! Cunningham seems to be going for some sort of submission here. Hard to say what - oh, it's a Brabo choke! He's got it! Barnes is tapping! Wow, great finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Brabo Choke). Markus Cunningham!