PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Papa John (ranked 3867 p4p, 430 weight class) and Jonathan Davis (ranked 2884 p4p, 329 weight class). Davis has chosen Imperial March (L.O.D. Rage Mix) as his entrance music. 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.

John
vs
Davis

170 cm
22
140 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

170 cm
22
142 lbs
6 - 7 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

IniTech Nutrition

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Papa John!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jonathan Davis!
The judges for this bout are , Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
No joy there for Davis, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
The crowd cheers as Davis lands an impressive looking overhand right. John doesn't seem phased though.
John thumps Davis with a low kick.
John swings for the body but Davis moves out of range.
John tries to clinch up
and Davis counters with a series of strikes. John will be more careful next time no doubt.
John moves in looking to clinch but Davis pushes him off.
John wants to clinch but Davis slips to the side
and Davis counters with a nice uppercut.

Davis pushes John up against the cage in a clinch.
A head punch on the inside from John fails to land.
John using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Davis has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Davis managing to block the knees to the body from John.
Davis looking to slow down the pace here.
John trying to stall but Davis improves his position.
Davis takes an elbow to the temple.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
John has Davis pressed against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
John stalling in the clinch but Davis improves position.
Davis misses with the head strike.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Davis takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Davis is leaning against John and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
A body shot lands from Davis.
Davis lands with a light punch inside.
John tries a body shot but Davis blocks it.
John unloads a knee to the mid-section. Davis lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Davis scores with an uppercut up the middle.
John will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Davis up against the cage.
We've been hearing reports that John has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Davis is stalling here.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Davis.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for John.
John is looking to control Davis's arms but Davis gets an underhook and turns him. Now John has his back to the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Davis controlling the action here for a moment.
Davis manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Davis fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Davis lands a nice shot to the body.
Davis is stalling here.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Davis receives a warning from the referee for stalling.
John tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Davis avoids it.
John is trying to stall.
Davis being controlled against the cage.
Davis blocks an elbow strike.
Davis has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. John seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if Davis can turn it around.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Davis effectively controlling the action here.
Davis tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
John struggles to land a body shot inside as Davis controls his hands.
John lands a hook that snaps the head of Davis backwards.
Davis misses with a hook to the ribs.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Davis lands a nice uppercut.
John goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
John is pushing Davis up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Davis lands a body shot.
John blocking some punches.
John tries to throw a body punch but Davis avoids it by throwing John back against the cage.
John creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
John lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Jonathan Davis has been cut.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
John misses with a punch on the inside.
John tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Davis's elbow.
John tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Davis taking a breather.
John misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Davis lands a hook that snaps the head of John backwards.
A right hand to the body from John.
John pushes Davis back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Davis swings wildly with an uppercut but John uses good head movement to avoid it.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Davis's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
John looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.

John closes the distance and pushes Davis back into the cage.
Davis has John pushed against the cage.
John misses with a knee strike.
Davis looking to stall.
Davis blocks a body shot from John.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jonathan Davis dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Jonathan Davis's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

John slips a jab from Davis.
Davis cracks John with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
John dodges the punch combination from Davis.
Davis throws a jab when John was well out of range.
John lands a nice leg kick that just misses Davis's sensitive parts.
Some wild striking there from John.
Davis stalks John and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into John's face. John staggers backwards, shaken.

It looks like Papa John has been cut.
Davis looks to throw the jab but John is out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Davis misses with a hook.
John walks into a jab.
Davis misses with a hook. John ducked under it nicely.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Davis's corner calls for a 1-2. Davis obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A big left from Davis misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Davis misses with a wild combination.
John keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
John uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Davis.
Davis might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
John avoids the body shot from Davis.
John gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Davis.
Davis scores with the left hand. John knows he should have avoided that one.
John avoids a punch combination nicely.
A combination from John does no damage.
John tries to clinch but Davis is having none of it.
John tries to clinch
and Davis counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
John lands a slapping body shot.

John rushes Davis and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Davis trying to control the position but instead, John has worked for underhooks and has pushed Davis into the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Davis is trying to slow the pace down but that's a couple of times in a row that he's tried to get underhooks and John has denied him.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Davis.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
John tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Davis avoids it.
Davis slowing the pace effectively.
John lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Davis lands a shot to the body.
John working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Davis doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
John doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
John goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Davis wants to stall.
Davis has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
John misses with a hook to the ribs.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Davis has John pressed against the cage.
John pushes Davis back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
John scores with a nice hook to the head.
A left hand lands to the body for John.
Davis stalling in the clinch.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Davis.
John is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Davis is keeping busy.
Davis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
John leaning his opponent against the cage.
Davis stalling.
Davis stalling in the clinch.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Jonathan Davis.

Davis darts in and clinches John up against the cage.
John tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Davis's elbow.
John gets through Davis's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Davis lands a hook that snaps the head of John backwards.
Davis digs a right hand into John's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on John's gas tank.
A head punch on the inside from John fails to land.
Davis leaning against his opponent.
John blocks an uppercut.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, John just misses with a elbow thrown towards Davis's brow.
Davis lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Davis looking to slow down the pace here.
Davis scores with a shot to the side of John's head.
Davis's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
John tries to work over Davis's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
John lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Davis or not.
John tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
John fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
John taking a breather.
John tries to work over Davis'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.

Jonathan Davis showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
That's time! Back to the action! And we move into the final round!

Davis misses with a body shot.
Nice uppercut lands for John. That snapped Davis's head back.
John avoids a punch combination nicely.

Davis drives through and clinches with John against the cage.
John goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Davis lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of John backwards.
John avoiding damage.
John works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Davis taking a breather.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Davis.
John dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
John is looking to control Davis's arms but Davis gets an underhook and turns him. Now John has his back to the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A short right from Davis.
Davis managing to block the knees to the body from John.
Davis working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Davis works on John's body with a couple of short punches.
Papa John has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Davis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Davis lands a right hand that snaps the head of John backwards.
John lands a nice knee to the body.
John is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Davis is defending well for now.
Davis is trying to stall.

Davis manages to break the clinch.
Davis misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from John.
Davis lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
John wants to clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Davis throws a looping overhand right but John ducks down to avoid it.
John's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Davis connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! John scrambles back to his feet.
Davis throws a right hand that misses
and John counters with a nice uppercut.
Papa John is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
John tries to clinch but Davis is having none of it.
John misses the shot to the body.
John lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Davis jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Davis avoids the body shot from John.
John tries a head kick but it misses.
John throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Davis swings for the body but John moves out of range.
Davis looks to land a combination but John avoids it well.
John takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
John moves in looking to clinch but Davis pushes him off.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
John misses with a body shot.

Davis takes the fight into the clinch.
Davis blocks an elbow strike from John.
John goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
John just leaning against Davis, taking a breather.
Davis throws a head punch that misses.
Davis lands an uppercut.
John tries to land knees in the clinch but Davis avoids the damage to the body.
Davis tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
A nice right hand lands inside from John.
John scores with a shoulder strike.
A nice right hand lands inside from Davis.
Davis goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A nice right hand lands inside from Davis.
Davis can't find room to land a body shot as John controls the action.
John trying to stall but Davis improves his position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
John looks to throw an elbow but misses.
John has a couple of punches blocked by Davis.
A short uppercut from John.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Davis looking to slow down the pace here.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Davis stalling in the clinch.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Davis just leaning against John, taking a breather.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Jonathan Davis.
John takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.

Davis closes the distance and clinches.
John is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Papa John has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
John can't find room to land a body shot as Davis controls the action.

And that's the end of the fight!
Jonathan Davis comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Davis has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Percy O'Donnell scores the fight 27:30
Judge Jack Bonds scores the fight 27:30
Judge Timothy Bukovac scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jonathan Davis!
In his post fight interview, Jonathan Davis started talking himself up. Luckily his charisma kept the crowd on side and gave him a good reception.