PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Liam Gallagher (ranked 1250 p4p, 57 weight class) and George Patton (ranked 1462 p4p, 68 weight class). Patton is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Keep your hands to yourself- Georgia Satellites. 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.

Gallagher
vs
Patton

210 cm
28
265 lbs
16 - 8 - 0

193 cm
37
287 lbs
28 - 15 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 8 - 0, fighting out of London, Liam Gallagher!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 28 - 15 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, George Patton!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, James Glass and Colin Fotheringham.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Patton misses with a looping right.
Gallagher was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Gallagher on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Patton has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Gallagher is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Patton blocks a leg kick.
Gallagher with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.

Gallagher gets a clinch.
Gallagher with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Patton can't break the clinch.
Gallagher makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Patton pushes Gallagher back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Patton tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Gallagher throws a punch but it's blocked by Patton.
Gallagher with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Gallagher blocks the elbow strike.
Patton blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Gallagher pushes Patton back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Gallagher scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Patton wants to get back to striking at distance but Gallagher won't allow it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Patton goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

Patton breaks the clinch.
Patton lands a jab to the head.
Patton tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Gallagher throws a sloppy head kick and Patton moves out of range easily.
Patton lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Gallagher backs up against the cage.

It looks like Liam Gallagher has been cut.
Patton pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Gallagher fails in his attempt to clinch.
Gallagher takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Good exchange - Gallagher coming out on top.
Gallagher throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Gallagher tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Gallagher throws a sloppy head kick and Patton moves out of range easily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Gallagher misses with a kick to the body.
Gallagher thumps Patton with a low kick.
Gallagher tries to close the distance and clinch but Patton swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Patton lands a body shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Patton misses with a two punch combination.
As Patton looks to move away, Gallagher throws a big counter combo but Patton just gets out of the way.
Gallagher tries to move into range but Patton moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Patton just misses with a punch to the body.
Gallagher tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Gallagher ducks under a wild hook from Patton.
Gallagher walks into a left hand.
Patton keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Patton looks to land a combination but Gallagher avoids it well.
Patton throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Gallagher.
Nice defenses there by Gallagher.

Gallagher moves into range and clinches up with Patton.
Gallagher misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Patton.

Patton escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Gallagher throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Patton looks to score with a jab to the body but Gallagher is just out of range.
Gallagher is looking to counter punch.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Gallagher pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Patton is trying to break the clinch but Gallagher has him pressed against the cage.
Gallagher blocking some punches.
Gallagher lands an elbow inside.

It looks like George Patton has been cut.
Still in the clinch, Gallagher scores with a nice short uppercut.

Patton manages to break the clinch.
Patton takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Gallagher avoids a punch combination nicely.
Patton tries to bum rush Gallagher with a series of wild strikes but Gallagher uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Gallagher is looking to counter with head kicks.
Gallagher explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Gallagher wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Gallagher looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Patton misses with a looping right.
Gallagher thinks about countering with a body kick.
Gallagher misses with a body shot.
Patton doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Patton just misses with a punch to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Patton loads up on a big right hand but Gallagher slips the punch.
Gallagher throws a head kick that Patton semi-blocks.
Patton circles away from the clinch attempt.
Patton misses with a few strikes there.
Patton swings for the body but Gallagher moves out of range.
Gallagher looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Patton will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
It looked like Gallagher was looking amped, ready to throw a big counter but didn't commit.
A lazy left from Gallagher finds it's target.
Patton misses with a wild combination.
Patton throws a body punch but Gallagher moves out of range.
Patton just manages to avoid a counter high kick fromGallagher.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Patton lands a slapping body shot.
Patton misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Patton misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Gallagher.
Gallagher lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but George Patton will probably get the nod.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Patton takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Gallagher looks to score with a jab to the body but Patton is just out of range.
Gallagher tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Gallagher wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Patton throws a lazy uppercut
and Gallagher counters with a lovely shot to the body.

Gallagher gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Patton blocks an elbow strike.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Gallagher.
Patton wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Gallagher throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Gallagher can't find room to land a body shot as Patton controls the action.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Gallagher tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Patton avoids it.

Gallagher breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Gallagher throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Gallagher - that will leave a mark!
Patton throws a combination that misses
and Gallagher counters with a lovely shot to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gallagher throws a head kick that misses.
Gallagher goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Patton swinging wildly here.
Gallagher with a jab.

That has opened up George Patton's cut even more.
Gallagher's corner calls for a 1-2. Gallagher obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Gallagher scores with a hook.
Patton misses with a wild combination.
Patton looks to land a combination but Gallagher avoids it well.
Gallagher dips to his left and cracks Patton with an uppercut!
Gallagher is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Gallagher scores with a leg kick.
Gallagher scores with a leg kick.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Gallagher fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Patton manages to avoid it.
George Patton is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Gallagher misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Patton avoids the head kick by Gallagher.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Patton fails to land with a series of punches.
Gallagher blocks a jab.
Gallagher cracks Patton with a good jab.
Gallagher misses with an attempted mid kick.
Gallagher is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
A punch combination from Patton misses.
Gallagher lands a jab to the nose.
Patton misses the shot to the body.
Gallagher is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Patton can do to turn this around?
Gallagher is looking to clinch but Patton is avoiding it.
It looks like Gallagher has been trying to sharpen up his punching technique, as it looks crisper than last time we saw him.
Gallagher is looking to clinch.
Gallagher tries a head kick but it misses.

Gallagher pushes Patton up against the cage in a clinch.
Gallagher prevents Patton from breaking the clinch.
Gallagher utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Gallagher tries to work over Patton's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Gallagher lands a nice elbow.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gallagher pushes off an throws an elbow but Patton leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Gallagher stalling the fight.
Gallagher works on Patton's body with a couple of short punches.
Patton is breathing heavily.
Gallagher throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Patton misses with a hook to the ribs.
Still in the clinch, Gallagher scores with a nice short uppercut.

The cut above George Patton's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Gallagher gets through Patton's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Patton tries to break the clinch but Gallagher is controlling the position.

Gallagher breaks from the clinch.
Gallagher takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Patton misses with a series of wild punches.

Gallagher darts in and clinches Patton up against the cage.
Gallagher with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Gallagher lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Gallagher lands a knee to the head.

George Patton's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
Gallagher crunches a lovely knee into Patton's ribcage.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Gallagher connects with a nasty looking knee right to Patton's face.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at George Patton's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:29 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Liam Gallagher!
In his post fight interview, Liam Gallagher started talking himself up. Luckily his charisma kept the crowd on side and gave him a good reception.
George Patton spoke after the fight, saying 'I'd like to thank my opponent, and apologize to the fans.'.