PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Evan Page (ranked 6385 p4p, 572 weight class) and Jack Badger (ranked 17250 p4p, 682 weight class). Jack Badger struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 156.2lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. 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.

Page
vs
Badger

170 cm
19
155 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

180 cm
33
162 lbs
8 - 28 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

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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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Evan Page!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 28 - 0, fighting out of London, Jack Badger!
The judges for this bout are Ian Loll, Dillan Fox and William Peck.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Page fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Badger looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Page clobbers Badger with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Badger drops his hands momentarily and Page takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
A swing and a miss from Page.
Page lands a right hook to the body.
Badger takes one to the chin there.
Page drops Badger with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Badger! Page dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Evan Page!
After the fight, Evan Page was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.