PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joe Walcott (ranked 1816 p4p, 263 weight class) and Rodney Garcia (ranked 1261 p4p, 184 weight class). Walcott comes to the cage accompanied by The Way Of The Fist. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Walcott
vs
Garcia

187 cm
30
197 lbs
12 - 9 - 0

192 cm
35
217 lbs
32 - 19 - 2

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Excellent grappler
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Pit Bull Development

IniTech Nutrition

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 12 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joe Walcott!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 32 - 19 - 2, fighting out of Montreal, Rodney Garcia!
The judges for this bout are Stewart Dunkirk, Gwen Towbar and Chris Downing.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A solid leg kick lands there for Garcia.
Garcia cracks Walcott with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Walcott throws a hook but Garcia avoids it easily.
Garcia lands a head shot.
Garcia throws a sloppy head kick and Walcott moves out of range easily.
Walcott went nuts there looking for a big combo counter but none of the flurry connected.
Garcia misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Walcott.
Walcott avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Garcia misses with an uppercut.
No luck for Garcia with that takedown attempt.

Walcott has managed to clinch.
Garcia has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Walcott.
Walcott definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Walcott tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Walcott lands a hook that snaps the head of Garcia backwards.
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!
Walcott misses with an elbow over the top.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Walcott.
Walcott throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Garcia is looking to take this one to the mat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Walcott misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Garcia.
Garcia misses with a punch on the inside.
Walcott doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Walcott swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.
Walcott is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Garcia is defending well for now.
Walcott misses with a body punch.
Walcott throws a head punch that misses.
Walcott misses with a hook to the ribs.
Walcott lands an uppercut.
Walcott is struggling to control the position.
Garcia blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Walcott lands a hook to the side of the head.
Walcott misses with a punch to the body.
Walcott keeps control of Garcia as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Garcia digs a right hand into Walcott's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Walcott's gas tank.
Garcia looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Garcia is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Walcott stalling in the clinch.
Walcott misses with a short punch on the inside.
With the fighters up against the cage, Walcott throws an elbow but misses.
Walcott blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Garcia.
Walcott lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Garcia wants a takedown.
Joe Walcott has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Rodney Garcia.
Walcott misses with some punches.

Garcia breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
A clash of legs there as Garcia blocks the low kick.
Walcott throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Garcia looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Garcia tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Walcott closes the distance and clinches.
Walcott prevents a body shot from Garcia.
Walcott tries to throw a body punch but Garcia avoids it by throwing Walcott back against the cage.
Walcott's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Garcia blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Walcott swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.
Garcia looking for a takedown.
Walcott lands a body punch.
Walcott tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Walcott is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Garcia lands a hook to the side of the head.
Walcott lands a hook that snaps the head of Garcia backwards.
Walcott lands a hook to the side of the head.
Walcott swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Walcott works on Garcia's body with a couple of short punches.
Walcott misses with some punches.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Garcia.

Garcia pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Walcott throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Walcott scores with a push kick.
Joe Walcott is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Garcia misses with the combination.
Garcia takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Garcia pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Walcott swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Garcia throws a hook to the side of Walcott's head but Walcott sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
It looked like Walcott wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Walcott blocks a head kick by Garcia.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Garcia throws a head kick that misses.
Walcott tries to close the distance and clinch but Garcia swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Garcia feints the counter takedown.

Walcott has managed to clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Joe Walcott dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Walcott showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Garcia.
Walcott tries to clinch but Garcia is having none of it.
Walcott moves out of the way of the counter high kick fromGarcia.
Garcia ducks under a wild hook from Walcott.
A big right from Garcia misses.
A little feinted left hand from Walcott on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Garcia does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Walcott tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Walcott throws a sloppy head kick and Garcia moves out of range easily.
A shot to the liver by Walcott. Beautiful body shot.
Garcia misses with a lunging right hand
and Walcott counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Walcott keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Garcia.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Walcott lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Garcia throws a shot from downtown. Walcott moves away and avoids it.
Walcott fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Garcia on the side of the head.
It really doesn't seem like the step up in weight is hurting Walcott here at all. He's more than holding his own against the bigger man.
Garcia throws a lazy right hand but Walcott sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Walcott tries to clinch
and Garcia counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Walcott displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Garcia throws out the jab.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Walcott tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Joe Walcott seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Walcott rushes Garcia and presses him up against the cage.
Garcia is trying to break the clinch but Walcott is controlling him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Walcott has a couple of punches blocked by Garcia.
A head punch on the inside from Walcott fails to land.
Walcott slowing the pace effectively.

Garcia manages to break the clinch.
Walcott connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Garcia's hands.
A big right from Walcott misses.
Walcott is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Garcia can do to turn this around?

Walcott closes the distance and clinches.
Garcia dodges an elbow strike from Walcott.
A short uppercut from Walcott.
Walcott lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Walcott lands with a light punch inside.
Walcott misses with a punch on the inside.
Nice body punch from Walcott - that landed with a thud.
Garcia blocking some punches.
Walcott tries to work over Garcia's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Walcott is defending well against a takedown attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Walcott misses with a short punch on the inside.
A right hand to the body from Walcott.
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!
Walcott swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.
Walcott lands a damaging elbow.
Walcott lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Garcia backwards.
Walcott lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Walcott manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Walcott misses with the head strike.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Walcott misses with a body punch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Garcia looking for a takedown.
Walcott pushes Garcia back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Walcott slowing the pace effectively.
Joe Walcott has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Walcott lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
A nice right hand lands inside from Walcott.
Walcott misses with some punches.
Walcott pushes Garcia back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Garcia blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Garcia wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Walcott has him pressed against the cage.
Walcott has a couple of punches blocked by Garcia.
Walcott working aggressively here.
Walcott misses with a body punch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Walcott.
Walcott working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Walcott tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Walcott.
Garcia blocking some punches.
Walcott lands on the inside with an uppercut.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
A short uppercut from Walcott.
A head punch on the inside from Walcott fails to land.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Walcott.
The referee is keeping an eye on Walcott - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Garcia on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Walcott scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Walcott tries to work over Garcia's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Joe Walcott dominated that second round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. And we move into the final round!

Walcott moves away from the strike by Garcia.
Walcott is looking to counter punch.
Garcia tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Garcia throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Walcott.
Garcia blocks the body kick.
Walcott swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Garcia.
Walcott jabs Garcia right on the nose. Garcia blinks but takes it well.
Walcott is looking to clinch.

Garcia gets tackled into the cage by Walcott. Walcott maintains the clinch.
Walcott can't find room to land a body shot as Garcia controls the action.
Walcott swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.
Walcott is looking to control Garcia's arms but Garcia gets an underhook and turns him. Now Walcott has his back to the cage.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Garcia.
Walcott misses with the head strike.
Walcott struggles to land a body shot inside as Garcia controls his hands.
Walcott goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Walcott swings away with an uppercut that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice body punch from Walcott - that landed with a thud.
Come on Walcott - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Walcott creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Walcott misses with the head strike.

Garcia pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
A nice leg kick lands there from Walcott.
Walcott pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Garcia misses with a double jab.
Nice defenses there by Walcott.
Walcott avoids the head kick by Garcia.
Good exchange - Garcia coming out on top.
Garcia lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Walcott moves away from the strike by Garcia.
Rodney Garcia seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Walcott doesn't manage to clinch there - Garcia circles away.
Rodney Garcia has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Garcia misses with a looping left.
Garcia just misses with a punch to the body.
Walcott tries to land a front kick but Garcia steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Walcott wants to clinch.
Joe Walcott is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Walcott throws out a powerful jab.
Garcia avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Garcia is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Walcott drops his hands momentarily and Garcia takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Garcia keeps the fight on the outside.
Garcia throws out a counter right but Walcott avoids it with no problem.
Nice body kick from Walcott.
Walcott throws a head kick that Garcia semi-blocks.
Jab from Walcott.
A left lands for Walcott.
Walcott chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Walcott connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Garcia pushing out the jab but it's not landing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Garcia throws a right and a left that Walcott avoids nicely.
It looked like Walcott wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.

Walcott closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Walcott works on Garcia's body with a couple of short punches.
Garcia blocking some punches.
Garcia wants to break free but Walcott has control.
Walcott lands a right hand.
Walcott throws a punch but it's blocked by Garcia.
Garcia working aggressively here.
Garcia is trying to break the clinch but Walcott is controlling him.
Walcott tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Walcott misses with the head strike.
Walcott throws a head punch that misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Walcott just leaning against Garcia, taking a breather.
Walcott prevents Garcia from breaking the clinch.
Garcia misses with a punch to the body.
Walcott has a couple of punches blocked by Garcia.
A short body shot lands from Walcott as the two fighters clinch.
A nice left hand lands by Walcott.
Garcia is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Garcia tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

Garcia breaks from the clinch.
Garcia tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Walcott is able to avoid easily.
Garcia misses with a hook
letting Walcott counter with a right hand.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Walcott connects with a leg kick. Garcia looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.

And that's the end of the fight!
Joe Walcott showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Walcott, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Stewart Dunkirk scores the fight 30:27
Judge Gwen Towbar scores the fight 30:27
Judge Chris Downing scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Joe Walcott!
Joe Walcott decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.