PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Barry Allen (ranked 5288 p4p, 499 weight class) and Sergei Martynov (ranked 6283 p4p, 533 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Allen
vs
Martynov

183 cm
26
190 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

195 cm
20
195 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Barry Allen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Sergei Martynov!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Robert Twigg and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martynov misses with a looping right.
A big left from Martynov misses.
Martynov avoids a kick to the body.
Nice body punch from Allen.
A clash of legs there as Martynov blocks the low kick.
A good leg kick by Allen.
Allen rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Martynov moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Allen throws a lazy head kick
and Martynov counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Martynov slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Allen walks into a straight right hand from Martynov.
Allen misses with a low kick.
Allen slips a jab and a cross from Martynov.
Allen tries to counter by moving into the clinch but Martynov manages to circle out of the way.
Allen blocks a jab.
Martynov throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Allen sees it coming and avoids it easily.

Martynov gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
I was talking to Allen's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Martynov works on Allen's body with a couple of short punches.
Martynov lands a right hand.
Martynov lands a nice shot to the body.
Allen is breathing heavily.
Martynov throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Martynov pushes Allen back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Martynov lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice body punch from Martynov - that landed with a thud.
A hook to the body from Martynov.
Martynov lands with a light punch inside.
Martynov softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
A shot in the inside from Martynov.
Martynov lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Allen backwards.
Martynov stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Good body shot from Martynov.
Martynov manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
A right handed body shot lands from Martynov.
Martynov works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Martynov works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
A short right from Martynov.
Martynov lands a nice shot to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Martynov lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Martynov scores with a nice hook to the head.
Martynov lands a left hand that snaps the head of Allen backwards.
A right hook to the body lands for Martynov.
Martynov stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Martynov scores with a shoulder strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martynov lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Allen backwards.
A right handed body shot lands from Martynov.
Martynov lands a left hand.
Martynov is leaning against Allen and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Martynov lands a nice uppercut.

Allen is rocked!
Martynov pushes Allen against the cage. Martynov is working some dirty boxing. Martynov pushes off with a quick right hook! Allen goes down! Allen tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Martynov moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Sergei Martynov!
A victorious Sergei Martynov thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.