PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Billy Ray Badass (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harry Sears (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Ray Badass
vs
Sears

200 cm
21
220 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

170 cm
26
205 lbs
6 - 8 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Knockout power

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Billy Ray Badass!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Harry Sears!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yuuki Gou and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A punch combination from Sears misses.
Badass shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Sears cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Sears digs a good body shot into Badass's ribs.
Sears throws a body shot but no joy.
Badass slips under a jab from Sears.
A punch lands to the side of Badass 's head but he takes it in his stride.

Badass closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Sears to the mat! Sears manages to get full guard.
Sears looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Badass is looking to work some ground and pound but Sears has wrist control.
Badass working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Badass stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Sears swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Sears keeping moving, preventing Badass from controlling successfully.
Badass preventing the sweep.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Badass trying to control but Sears is working from the bottom.
Sears really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Badass. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Badass landing some decent shots from guard.
Badass will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
Sears looking for a sweep. Not yet Sears, not yet.
Badass lands a couple of digs.
Badass keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Sears's head.

It looks like Harry Sears has been cut.
Sears told us pre-fight that he has been working on his escapes in training. Let's see if he can call on some of his new skills to get back to his feet.
Badass throws a big elbow that misses.
Badass slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Sears keeping moving, preventing Badass from controlling successfully.
Badass is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Sears is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Badass is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Badass's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Badass postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Badass makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Badass lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

Sears is rocked!
Badass sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Sears's guard.
Sears avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Badass.
Ground and pound from Badass.
Sears is still in real trouble! Can Badass finish him?
Sears is trying to get back to full guard.
Badass seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
Badass is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Badass passes to side control.
Sears seems to have recovered his senses.
Badass has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Badass thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Badass scores with a couple of short elbows.

Badass tries for a kimura but Sears is defending well.
Badass wants to lay and pray for a moment but Sears keeps working.
Badass working the head with strikes.
Sears is trying to get back to half guard.
Badass grinds an elbow into Sears's temple.
Badass lands a strong strike to the head of Sears. That's dazed him! Badass looking to finish here. Sears is waving his arms around trying to block but he's hurt badly - Badass lands more strikes and the referee steps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Billy Ray Badass!
After the fight, Billy Ray Badass was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.