PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Raine Babe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Randall Cunningham (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Babe kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. Randall Cunningham has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Raine Babe's chin.

Babe
vs
Cunningham

192 cm
31
222 lbs
7 - 5 - 0

188 cm
41
210 lbs
33 - 21 - 1

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Heavy handed

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 7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Raine Babe!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 33 - 21 - 1, fighting out of New York, Randall Cunningham!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Shirou Masuda and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Babe throws an overhand right that lands on Cunningham's shoulder, as Cunningham tries to avoid the shot.
No joy there for Babe, who threw a few shots but didn't land.

Babe gets tackled into the cage by Cunningham. Cunningham maintains the clinch.
Babe misses with a hook from the clinch.
I was talking to Babe's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.

Babe breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Cunningham scores with a jab to the jaw.
Babe misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Cunningham.
Cunningham swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Babe pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Cunningham uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Babe.
Cunningham swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Cunningham throws a front kick aimed at Babe's knee but Babe avoids it well.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
A low kick from Babe misses

and Cunningham counters with a nice double leg into side control. Babe won't be happy with that.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Babe on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Babe sneaks back into half guard.
Cunningham lands with a punch from half guard.
Babe is staying active underneath Cunningham, who seems content to just control the action from this position.
Babe won't allow Cunningham to pass to mount.
Cunningham throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Babe is trying to get back to full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cunningham working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Cunningham not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Cunningham thows a huge punch but Babe dodges it nicely.

Babe looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Cunningham is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

Babe looking for submissions off his back.
Babe keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Well, if Cunningham is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Babe has hold of Cunningham's hands but Cunningham slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Babe is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Babe taking some punishment here, with Cunningham in his half guard.
Cunningham lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.

Babe is rocked!
Babe is looking to improve his position.

Babe actively working from the bottom here.
Cunningham looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Babe with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Oh Babe is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Cunningham lands a massive shot from half guard that has rocked Babe! More strikes land and this one is all over! Cunningham jumps to his feet and is applauded loudly by the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Randall Cunningham!
An intense looking Randall Cunningham took to the microphone post fight and gave a little speech: 'Young and strong but you one dimensional.'.
Raine Babe was interviewed post fight and said 'You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance!'.