PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Moses Sithole (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alphonzo Mirage (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alphonzo Mirage has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Moses Sithole's chin.

Sithole
vs
Mirage

195 cm
19
215 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

191 cm
19
212 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Heavy handed

Sully's Bar & Grill

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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Moses Sithole!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Alphonzo Mirage!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Patrick Alders and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mirage connects with a solid leg kick.
Sithole ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Mirage moves away.
Mirage swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Mirage misses with a left hand
and Sithole counters with a nice uppercut.
Sithole looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Mirage throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sithole misses with a looping left.
A big right from Sithole misses.
Sithole slips under a jab.

Mirage moves into the clinch successfully.
Sithole's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
A head punch on the inside from Sithole fails to land.
Sithole is trying to break free.
Mirage stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Mirage scores with a nice hook to the head.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Mirage.
Mirage misses with a punch on the inside.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Mirage manages to break the clinch.
Left hook, right uppercut from Sithole.
Mirage on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Sithole connects with the punch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jab, jab by Sithole - just one landing.
Sithole misses with an uppercut.
Sithole missing with a left hand there. Mirage was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Despite the aggression on Mirage's face he doesn't fully commit to the counter.
A big right from Sithole misses.

Mirage rushes Sithole and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Mirage stalling against the cage.
Mirage effectively controlling the action here.
Mirage swings wildly with an uppercut but Sithole uses good head movement to avoid it.
Mirage softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Mirage lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Sithole backwards.
Mirage lands on the inside with an uppercut.

Sithole is rocked!
Mirage pushes Sithole against the cage. Mirage is working some dirty boxing. Mirage pushes off with a quick right hook! Sithole goes down! Sithole tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Mirage moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alphonzo Mirage!
Alphonzo Mirage was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.