PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jermaine Barksdale (ranked 5547 p4p, 640 weight class) and Rick James (ranked 9173 p4p, 804 weight class). 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.

Barksdale
vs
James

190 cm
49
211 lbs
32 - 15 - 1

195 cm
52
218 lbs
51 - 50 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Big right hand

Decent wrestler
Good elbows
Heavy handed

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 32 - 15 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jermaine Barksdale!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 51 - 50 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Rick James!
The judges for this bout are Steve Smith, William Peck and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bitch! misses with a looping left.
Bitch! throws an off balance right hand
and Barksdale counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.

Barksdale looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into side control! Oh, that's bad for Bitch!!

Barksdale decides to take the fight back to the feet.
Bitch! misses with a right hand

and Barksdale counters with a crisp one two that drops Bitch!! Barksdale thinks about following him to the mat for a moment but instead steps back and waves Bitch! to his feet! Bitch! is in big trouble!

Bitch! is rocked!

Barksdale lands a huge takedown. Bitch! is out but the ref is slow to react and Barksdale lands 3 more undefended punches before the fight is stopped. Brutal finish. Bitch! lies on the canvas for a good minute before the doctors bring him round. Good to see he's OK.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jermaine Barksdale!
An intense looking Jermaine Barksdale took to the microphone post fight and gave a little speech: 'My plan on winning or losing was to retire I'm 48 gonna turn 49 soon and i can't fight forever so i'm going to retire and i just want to say follow your dreams if i can fight till 48 anything is possible so i wiil retire'.