PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Bruce Leeroy (ranked 10360 p4p, 677 weight class) and Samak Tiyapairat (ranked 4114 p4p, 394 weight class). Leeroy comes into the arena with Boondocks Theme Song blaring out of the sound system. The crowd seem to be enjoying Tiyapairat's choice of entrance music: Ram Muay. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Leeroy
vs
Tiyapairat

174 cm
51
155 lbs
45 - 47 - 0

174 cm
49
166 lbs
38 - 35 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 45 - 47 - 0, fighting out of New York, Bruce Leeroy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 38 - 35 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Samak Tiyapairat!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Trevor Gratis and Steve Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tiyapairat slips a jab from Leeroy.

Tiyapairat clinches with his opponent.
Tiyapairat tries to land knees in the clinch but Leeroy avoids the damage to the body.

Tiyapairat drops Leeroy with a big knee straight up the middle! Leeroy is covering up against the cage but manages to escape and gets back to his feet!

Leeroy is rocked!

It looks like Bruce Leeroy has been cut.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Leeroy steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Tiyapairat. That one must have hurt.
Oh Leeroy is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Tiyapairat fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Leeroy, pushing him back against the cage.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Tiyapairat unloads a knee to the mid-section. Leeroy lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Leeroy misses with the head strike.
Tiyapairat jerks Leeroy's head down, straight into the path of a devastating knee! Leeroy drops to the floor in a crumpled heap! Tiyapairat goes to throw a finishing haymaker but pulls out - good sportsmanship from Tiyapairat because Leeroy was completely out of it. That was a nice finish - just the right level of brutality to send everyone home happy.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knee). Samak Tiyapairat!
A very excited looking Samak Tiyapairat rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.