PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Billie Benjamin (ranked 23627 p4p, 0 weight class) and Logan Paul (ranked 4843 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Billie Benjamin has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Benjamin
vs
Paul

212 cm
26
193 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

185 cm
22
190 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Granite chin

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 Los Angeles, Billie Benjamin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Logan Paul!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Timothy Bukovac and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Paul misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Benjamin throws a nice looking combination but Paul bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.

Benjamin throws a loose over hand right and dives in with a double leg takedown. Paul tries to sprawl but it's too late and the fighters hit the mat. Benjamin is in Paul's guard.
Paul looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Paul throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Paul trying to control the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Paul looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Benjamin is working Paul over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Benjamin throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Paul works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Benjamin trying to control but Paul is working from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Benjamin wants to stand and escape but instead Paul has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.

Paul postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Paul postures up.
Benjamin really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Paul scoring with punches to the head and body.
Benjamin is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Paul connects with a couple of short punches.
Paul works over Benjamin with some ground and pound from guard.
Paul stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Benjamin swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Benjamin is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Paul keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Benjamin's head.
Benjamin trying to control the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Benjamin is really struggling to control Paul but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Paul is in close to Benjamin's body, working some short punches and elbows.

Benjamin is rocked!
Paul postures up from his opponent's guard, before exploding into some vicious ground and pound! Benjamin covers up, he's hurt! Paul keeps throwing the strikes, glancing at the referee... Will he stop it?? One more big shot from Paul and the ref steps in to end the fight! Paul can't hide his delight as he celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Logan Paul!
Logan Paul decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.