PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Crack Head (ranked 125 p4p, 18 weight class) and Isaiah Cooley (ranked 2899 p4p, 375 weight class). Isaiah Cooley has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Crack Head's chin.

Head
vs
Cooley

186 cm
28
194 lbs
14 - 1 - 0

187 cm
19
212 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Aspire Clothing
XFighter Clothing

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 14 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Crack Head!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Isaiah Cooley!
The judges for this bout are Roosa Järviläinen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Head lands with a nice body punch.
Cooley misses the body punch
and Head counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Head blocks a jab.
Cooley with a nice cross.
Head definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Head lands a nice hook to Cooley's body. Cooley takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Head throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Head throws a nice looking combination but Cooley bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Head throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Head slips a straight right by Cooley.
Cooley swings away with a body shot that misses
and Head counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Head misses with a wild body shot.
Head misses the shot to the body.
The crowd cheers as Head lands an impressive looking overhand right. Cooley doesn't seem phased though.

It looks like Isaiah Cooley has been cut.
Isaiah Cooley seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Cooley lands a right hook to the body.
Head swings for the body but Cooley moves out of range.
Cooley throws a jab when Head was well out of range.
Cooley misses with a body shot.
Cooley ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Head drops his hands momentarily and Cooley takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Cooley wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Head on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Cooley is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Head.
Cooley just misses with a punch to the body.
Head swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Head steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Cooley.
Head with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Cooley throws a right hand that misses
enabling Head to counter with a crisp jab.
Cooley lands a glancing blow to the side of Head's head.
Head connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Cooley momentarily.
Good standup being displayed there by Head as he connects with a hook.
No joy there for Head, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cooley throws the left hand but Head avoids the punch easily.
Cooley ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Cooley swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
A left lands for Head.
Cooley lands a lovely overhand right.
Head looks to land a left hand but Cooley moved out of range nicely.
Cooley closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Head keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Head tries to counter by clinching up but Cooley breaks away and moves out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Head fails in his attempt to clinch.
Cooley misses with a looping left.
Head was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
Cooley throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Head counters with a nice uppercut.

That has opened up Isaiah Cooley's cut even more.
Cooley connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Head's hands.
Cooley walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Cooley displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Head throws out the jab.
Cooley lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Cooley avoids a punch combination nicely.
Cooley looks to land a right hand but Head moved out of range.
A counter left hand to the body from Head misses its target.
Cooley misses with a body shot.
Head throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Cooley sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Cooley fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Head has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Cooley throws a sloppy body shot
and Head counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Head swings for the body but Cooley moves out of range.
Head thows a left - swing and a miss!
Cooley scores with a nice head shot.
Head lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Head sizes up Cooley with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Cooley throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Cooley lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Head avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
A slow jab from Head misses its intended target.
Head misses with a straight left.
Head connects with a body shot that sends Cooley's belly button to the back.
Head displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Cooley throws out the jab.
Head tests Cooley's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Cooley misses with a hook

and Head counters by clinching up.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, Head creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.

The cut above Isaiah Cooley's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Head tries to throw a body punch but Cooley avoids it by throwing Head back against the ropes.
Cooley throws a head punch that misses.
Head works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Head blocking some punches.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Head fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Head lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Head blocks an uppercut.
Head lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Cooley backwards.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A shot in the inside from Head.
Head struggles to land a body shot inside as Cooley controls his hands.
Cooley tries to throw a body punch but Head avoids it by throwing Cooley back against the ropes.
Head lands with a left to the head.
Head tries to throw a body punch but Cooley avoids it by throwing Head back against the ropes.
Head blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Head misses with a punch to the body.
Cooley throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Heads head.
Cooley tries a body shot but Head blocks it.
Head misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Cooley has a couple of punches blocked by Head.
Head cracks Cooley with a nice body shot.
Cooley misses with a hook from the clinch.
A shot in the inside from Head.
Head blocking some punches.
Head lands a left hand that snaps the head of Cooley backwards.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Cooley throws a head punch that misses.
Head tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Cooley's elbow.
Cooley gets through Head's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
A head punch on the inside from Cooley fails to land.
Cooley working aggressively here.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Crack Head dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Isaiah Cooley's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

Cooley is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Head.
A looping hook to the body misses from Head. Cooley does a little dance to reset his feet.
Head is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Cooley can do to turn this around?
Cooley on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Decent striking displayed by Head there.
Head tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Cooley was well out of range. Poor timing from Head.
Cooley swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Head with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Cooley to score with a decent uppercut.

Head darts in and clinches Cooley up against the ropes.

Cooley breaks from the clinch.
Cooley gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Head.
Cooley tests Head's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Cooley.
Head bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Cooley cracks Head with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Head throws out a loose jab but Cooley uses good head movement to avoid it.
Cooley slips under a jab from Head.
Cooley fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Cooley takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Cooley circles away from the clinch attempt.
Cooley walks into a left hand.

Isaiah Cooley's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
Crack Head is winning the standup battle so far.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A looping hook to the body misses from Head. Cooley does a little dance to reset his feet.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Head slips under a jab from Cooley.
Head lands a nice shot to the body.
Head takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Head on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Head scores with a hook.
Head throws a right hand that Cooley ducks under and follows up with a left that Cooley also avoids with ease.

Head rushes Cooley and presses him up against the ropes.
Head goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Crack Head has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Head is working Cooley over against the ropes.
Cooley blocking some punches.
Head lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Isaiah Cooley's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Crack Head!
Crack Head really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Aspire Clothing logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.