PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dmitri Mikhailovich (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and james toal (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dmitri Mikhailovich has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Mikhailovich
vs
toal

200 cm
22
280 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

182 cm
22
265 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Big heart

Good takedowns
Brawler
Likes ground

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dmitri Mikhailovich!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, james toal!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Wesley Smith and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mikhailovich tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but toal paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Mikhailovich tries to close the distance and clinch but toal swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Mikhailovich tries to clinch there but toal circles away.
toal takes one on the chin but seems OK.

It looks like james toal has been cut.

Mikhailovich moves into the clinch.
Nice elbow from Mikhailovich.
Mikhailovich lands with a light punch inside.

That has opened up james toal's cut even more.
toal has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Mikhailovich is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
toal can't break the clinch.
Mikhailovich lands a hook that snaps the head of toal backwards.
Mikhailovich lands a hook to the side of the head.
toal should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Mikhailovich lands a nice elbow.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
toal tries to break the clinch but Mikhailovich is controlling the position.
Mikhailovich is looking to land a big knee to finish this one. He's got control of the head and as toal tries to break Mikhailovich's hands from around his neck, Mikhailovich unloads with that fight ending knee, right up the middle! Oh man, that was nasty! toal will need to get back to the training room and learn how to defend against the thai clinch! Oooh, his nose is a mess. Hopefully it's not broken.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Knee). Dmitri Mikhailovich!