PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Merle Reilly (ranked 24054 p4p, 0 weight class) and David Ford (ranked 3758 p4p, 489 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Reilly
vs
Ford

178 cm
26
215 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

188 cm
25
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Determined

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 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Merle Reilly!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, David Ford!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Steve Montenegro and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ford stuns Reilly with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.

Reilly darts in and clinches Ford up against the cage.
Reilly tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Ford's elbow.

Reilly's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Reilly shoots for a takedown but Ford saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Ford lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.

It looks like Merle Reilly has been cut.

Reilly has closed the distance and engaged Ford in a clinch.
Ford can't break the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ford is trying to break the clinch but Reilly is controlling him.

Reilly's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Reilly has a takedown stuffed.
Ford tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ford scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Reilly takes a body punch but keeps moving.

Reilly gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Ford is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Ford is trying to break the clinch but Reilly has him pressed against the cage.
Ford is trying to break the clinch but Reilly has him pressed against the cage.
Reilly prevents Ford from breaking the clinch.
Ford looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

Reilly manages to break the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ford clobbers Reilly with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

Reilly gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Ford working hard to break the clinch.

Reilly pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
A shot to the liver by Ford. Beautiful body shot.
Ford lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
This has been an exciting period of action!
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Ford.
Ford lands with a shot to the body.
Ford connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.

Reilly is rocked!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Reilly walks into a straight right, dropping him to the canvas! Ford swarms him and finishes the fight with a hail of punches! What a brutal finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:08 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). David Ford!