PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Benjamin Barkley (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ken Shiro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shiro comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Fist of the North Star - Opening kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Barkley
vs
Shiro

190 cm
23
210 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

205 cm
22
200 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Determined

Nutrition 101[10$ for stamina q120]

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 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Benjamin Barkley!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ken Shiro!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yuuki Gou and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shiro throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

Barkley gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Shiro prevents Barkley from breaking the clinch.
Shiro stalls.
Shiro landing knees to the body.
Shiro scores with a knee to the head.
Barkley is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.

Shiro breaks from the clinch.
Barkley swinging wilding here.

Shiro throws a head kick that lands with a deafening thwack! The crowd roars as Barkley stumbles backwards and falls to the mat. Shiro follows into mount!

It looks like Benjamin Barkley has been cut.
Shiro really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Barkley. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
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!
Barkley really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Shiro controlling the position easily from mount.
Barkley flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Barkley manages to regain half guard. Good work.
Barkley might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Barkley is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.

Barkley looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Barkley landing a few short strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Shiro is trying to control the action in half guard but Barkley is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

Barkley is working on a guillotine. He's managed to get to full guard and he's really squeezing tight! Shiro is tapping! Great win for Barkley!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Benjamin Barkley!