PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Apollo Reid (ranked 5377 p4p, 0 weight class) and Big John (ranked 25387 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Reid might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Living in America by James Brown. Apollo Reid had a look across the cage there at his opponent. He definitely means business

Reid
vs
John

189 cm
25
190 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

183 cm
18
185 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Intelligent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Apollo Reid!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Big John!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Sandra Marshall and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Reid, right into the meat.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Reid.
John looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Reid lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear John down.
Reid scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at John to see if he's OK.
Reid in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Reid controlling from side mount.
Check out the look on Reid's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee asks Reid politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Reid prefers to stall for the moment though.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Reid has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.
John really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Reid. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Reid lands an elbow.
Reid advances nicely into full mount.
Reid controlling from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Reid postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. John looks a forlorn figure.
Reid scores with a couple of good head shots there.
John takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! Reid's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Apollo Reid!
Apollo Reid made sure to give a little speech post fight, saying 'Get lost chump!'.