PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vincent Lemieux (ranked 1153 p4p, 55 weight class) and Mike Murhaa (ranked 1227 p4p, 62 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Lemieux
vs
Murhaa

193 cm
29
270 lbs
13 - 11 - 0

199 cm
23
292 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 13 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Vincent Lemieux!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mike Murhaa!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A looping hook to the body misses from Lemieux. Murhaa does a little dance to reset his feet.
We can't be sure of the tactics at this early stage but we have heard that Murhaa has been working on his takedowns a lot in the buildup to the fight and we can only assume he's going to look to take this to the mat.
Murhaa keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Lemieux.
Lemieux lands a head shot.

Murhaa tries to keep at a distance but Lemieux has taken the fight into the clinch.
Lemieux lands a hook to the side of the head.
Lemieux lands a body punch.
Lemieux lands a hook to the side of the head.
A nice left hand lands by Lemieux.
I was talking to Lemieux's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Murhaa doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Murhaa misses with a punch on the inside.
Lemieux working aggressively here.
Lemieux blocks a body shot from Murhaa.
Murhaa scores with a shot to the side of Lemieux's head.
Lemieux swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Lemieux softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Murhaa.
Murhaa throws a punch but it's blocked by Lemieux.
Murhaa misses with a body punch.
Lemieux working aggressively here.
Murhaa working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Lemieux working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Murhaa swings wildly with an uppercut but Lemieux uses good head movement to avoid it.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Murhaa.
Murhaa tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Lemieux's elbow.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Lemieux.
Murhaa throws a punch but it's blocked by Lemieux.
Lemieux misses with the head strike.
Lemieux lands a left hand that snaps the head of Murhaa backwards.
Murhaa blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Lemieux misses with some punches.
Murhaa tries to throw a body punch but Lemieux avoids it by throwing Murhaa back against the cage.
Lemieux prevents a body shot from Murhaa.
Murhaa working aggressively here.
Lemieux misses with a body punch.
Murhaa blocks an uppercut.
Murhaa tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Murhaa misses with the head strike.
Lemieux lands a nice shot to the body.
Murhaa looks winded!
Lemieux blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Lemieux misses with a hook from the clinch.
Lemieux lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
A short body shot lands from Lemieux as the two fighters clinch.
Lemieux lands a body punch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lemieux tries a body shot but Murhaa blocks it.
Lemieux scores with a shot to the side of Murhaa's head.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Lemieux lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Lemieux lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Murhaa backwards.

Murhaa is rocked!
Murhaa's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Murhaa is still on wobbly legs! Can Lemieux finish him?
Lemieux is leaning against Murhaa and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Lemieux lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Murhaa to his knees! Lemieux keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Vincent Lemieux!