PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between This Guy (ranked 5237 p4p, 550 weight class) and Max Bear (ranked 4869 p4p, 518 weight class). Max Bear is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Guy
vs
Bear

195 cm
27
245 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

199 cm
52
255 lbs
36 - 38 - 1

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, This Guy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 36 - 38 - 1, fighting out of London, Max Bear!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fotheringham, Sam Margolis and Phil Schofield.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bear tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Bear scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Bear goes for a double leg but Guy avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Guy continues to drive forward.
Bear looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Bear shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Guy defends it nicely.
Bear dives in for a single leg takedown but Guy sprawls and the fighters end up clinched against the cage.
This Guy has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Max Bear.
Bear looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Bear shoots in but Guy avoids the takedown attempt easily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Bear gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Guy counters with a one-two to the body.

Guy closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.

Guy breaks the clinch.
Bear pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Guy looked to counter with a high kick but didn't commit.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Guy fails with a takedown attempt.
Sloppy strikes from Guy. Those never looked like landing.
Bear misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Bear fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Bear looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.

Bear feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Guy is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Guy looks to be in better condition than last time we saw him fight. Obviously he's been working hard on his cardio.
Guy can't keep his opponent in guard - Bear advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Guy trying to control here.
Bear trying to pass the guard but Guy defending well.
Bear wants to control but Guy is keeping him busy.
Bear sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Guy defending well though.
Bear misses with a head shot. Guy uses the momentum to regain guard.
Bear slips nicely into half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Guy tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Bear has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
Guy working to try and regain half guard.
Bear punching from mount but Guy doing a good job of avoiding damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bear avoids the attempt from Guy to control.
Bear lands a big shot there that rocks Guy but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Bear scoring with strikes but Guy is staying in there.
Bear looking to finish with strikes here!
Bear throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Bear throws some wild stikes that Guy manages to avoid easily.
Guy is in all sorts of trouble here.
Bear working away from the top, dropping strikes.

Guy is rocked!
Bear looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Guy covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Max Bear!
Our winner, Max Bear, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.