PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lucas Bishop (ranked 8593 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Judah (ranked 4291 p4p, 0 weight class). Judah has a niggling injury. He would have liked to come in 100% fit but that's not always possible. Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Bishop
vs
Judah

185 cm
49
187 lbs
33 - 17 - 1

188 cm
33
195 lbs
21 - 12 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Woodshins' Ship

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 33 - 17 - 1, fighting out of Hilo, Lucas Bishop!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 12 - 1, fighting out of Hilo, Daniel Judah!
The judges for this bout are Josh West, Micheangelo Fripello and Roger Salmon.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Judah slips a straight right by Bishop.
Bishop fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Judah manages to avoid it.
Bishop keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Judah lands with a right hand.
Bishop misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
A countering left hand to the body from Judah misses.
Judah lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Judah looks winded!
Judah fails in his attempt to clinch.

Bishop closes the distance and clinches.
Judah makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Bishop prevents a body shot from Judah.
Bishop misses with a short punch on the inside.
A short left from Judah.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Judah blocking some punches.
Judah scores with a shot to the side of Bishop's head.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Bishop misses with some punches.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Judah.
Bishop misses with the head strike.
Judah lands with a right to the head.
Bishop misses with a punch on the inside.
Bishop working aggressively here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Judah lands an elbow that stopped Bishop in his tracks for a moment.

It looks like Lucas Bishop has been cut.
Bishop softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Bishop working aggressively here.
Judah lands a left hand.
Bishop tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Bishop's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Bishop is trying to break free.
Bishop fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Judah.
Bishop swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Bishop takes a knee right on the jaw!
Bishop is trying to force a seperation but Judah has the dominant position.
Bishop swings wildly with an uppercut but Judah uses good head movement to avoid it.
Judah is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Judah with a knee to the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Still in the clinch, Judah scores with a nice short uppercut.
Judah lands an elbow just above Bishop 's eye.
Judah softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Judah comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Judah lands a left hand.
Knees in the clinch landing for Judah.
Judah lands with a right to the head.
Judah digs a right hand underneath Bishop's ribcage. Bishop let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Judah with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Judah pushes Bishop back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Bishop can't find room to land a body shot as Judah controls the action.
Bishop tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Judah lands a body punch in the clinch.
Bishop tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Bishop working hard to break the clinch.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Bishop.
Judah landing knees to the body.
Judah lands a knee to the head.
Bishop is looking to break free of the clinch but Judah has double underhooks.
Bishop misses with a body punch.
Judah with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Judah scores with a shot to the side of Bishop's head.
Bishop scores with a shot to the side of Judah's head.
Bishop misses with a punch to the body.
Judah lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Judah landing some nice looking knees to the body.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Judah.
Judah with a knee to the head.
Bishop wants to get back to striking at distance but Judah won't allow it.
Judah lands a hook that snaps the head of Bishop backwards.
Bishop tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

Bishop breaks from the clinch.
A looping hook to the body misses from Bishop. Judah does a little dance to reset his feet.
Judah lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Bishop misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Judah.
Bishop takes one on the button.
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!

Judah fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Bishop, pushing him back against the cage.
Bishop takes an elbow to the forehead.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Judah.
A right hook to the body lands for Judah.
Judah scores with a knee to the head.
Judah keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Bishop's efforts to push away.
Bishop tries to throw a body punch but Judah avoids it by throwing Bishop back against the cage.
Judah keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Bishop's efforts to push away.
Bishop has a couple of punches blocked by Judah.
Judah landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Bishop throws a head punch that misses.
Judah landing knees to the head.
Bishop misses with the head strike.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Bishop fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Judah working Bishop over with knees to the body.
Bishop's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Judah tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Daniel Judah dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Lucas Bishop's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Bishop looks to land a left hand but Judah moved out of range nicely.
Bishop misses with a body shot.
Judah steps in looking to clinch after the strikes miss from Bishop.

Bishop takes the fight into the clinch.
Bishop misses with a hook from the clinch.
Judah blocks an uppercut.
Bishop throws a head punch that misses.

Bishop manages to break the clinch.
Judah keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Bishop misses the jab.
Judah moves away from the strike by Bishop.
Judah scores with a nice strike.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Judah connects with a leg kick. Bishop looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Bishop tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Judah was well out of range. Poor timing from Bishop.
Bishop is looking light on his feet compared to last time was saw him fight.
Bishop takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Judah connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Bishop looks to land a left hand but Judah moved out of range nicely.
Judah steps in looking to clinch after the strikes miss from Bishop.
Bishop lands a nice hook to Judah's body. Judah takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Judah avoids the body shot from Bishop.
Bishop throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Judah sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Judah thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Bishop if he has to take too many more of those.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Judah, right into the meat.
Judah steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Bishop.
Bishop jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Judah wants to counter the offense by Bishop and move into the clinch position.

Judah darts in and clinches Bishop up against the cage.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Judah lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Judah blocks a body shot from Bishop.
Bishop wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Bishop misses with the head strike.
Judah is working Bishop over against the cage.
Judah lands a left hand that snaps the head of Bishop backwards.
Judah working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Judah blocks an uppercut.
Judah lands a nice uppercut.
Judah lands a body shot in the clinch.
Judah is leaning against Bishop and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Still in the clinch, Judah scores with a nice short uppercut.
A short left from Judah.
Judah unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Knees in the clinch landing for Judah.
Bishop throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Judahs head.
Judah lands a body shot.
A short left from Judah.

Bishop escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Daniel Judah seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Judah wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Judah ducks under a wild hook from Bishop.

Judah closes the distance and pushes Bishop back into the cage.
Judah landing knees to the head.
Judah takes a shot to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bishop throws a head punch that misses.
Judah lands with a right to the head.
Judah lands a left hand.
Bishop is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Judah lands an elbow inside.
Bishop throws a punch but it's blocked by Judah.
Judah lands a right hand that snaps the head of Bishop backwards.
Judah lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Judah lands an elbow that stopped Bishop in his tracks for a moment.
Judah blocking some punches.
Judah landing knees to the head.
Judah lands a nice knee to the body.
Judah lands with a short shot to the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Bishop wants to break free but Judah has control.
Bishop fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A body shot lands from Judah.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Judah.
A nice right hand lands inside from Judah.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Judah keeps control of Bishop as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Judah with a knee to the head.
Bishop working aggressively here.
Judah scores with a knee to the head.
A nice left hand lands by Judah.
A head punch on the inside from Bishop fails to land.
Bishop misses with the head strike.
Judah landing knees to the head.
Judah lands a good knee to the midsection. Bishop won't want to take too many of those.
Judah cracks Bishop with a nice body shot.
Bishop throws a punch but it's blocked by Judah.
Judah presses Bishop against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Bishop is trying to break free.
Judah has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Judah obliges.
Bishop misses with some punches.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Judah.
Daniel Judah seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
A short left from Judah.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Daniel Judah showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Lucas Bishop's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! This is the final round!

Judah slips under a jab from Bishop.
Bishop takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Lucas Bishop seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Bishop bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Judah's head backwards.
Bishop misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Bishop avoids the head kick by Judah.
Bishop misses the jab.

Bishop moves into the clinch successfully.
Judah trying to land knees to the body.
Judah unloads a knee to the mid-section. Bishop lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Judah swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Bishop fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Bishop tries to circle away but Judah has him pinned against the cage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Bishop goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Bishop misses with a hook to the ribs.
Bishop tries to throw a body punch but Judah avoids it by throwing Bishop back against the cage.
A short left from Judah.
Bishop looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Judah lands a knee to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Judah misses with a knee strike.
Bishop tries to break free but Judah pushes him back against the cage.
Judah lands an elbow just above Bishop 's eye.
Judah using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Bishop misses with a short punch on the inside.
Judah connects with a knee to the head.
Bishop lands with a light punch inside.
Bishop's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Bishop throws a head punch that misses.
Judah scores with a knee to the head.
Bishop takes a knee right on the jaw!
Judah blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Bishop has had enough of the clinch but Judah keeps him there for the moment.
Bishop tries to break the clinch but Judah is controlling the position.
Bishop looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Judah landing knees to the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Judah blocking some punches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bishop misses with a punch to the body.
Judah scores with a knee to the head.
Bishop misses with the head strike.
Judah with a knee to the head.
Judah blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Bishop looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Judah lands an elbow inside that Bishop shrugs off.
Judah lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Judah lands a good knee to the midsection. Bishop won't want to take too many of those.
Bishop is trying to break free.
Bishop wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Bishop working hard to break the clinch.
Judah working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Bishop has a couple of punches blocked by Judah.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Bishop misses with a hook from the clinch.
Judah makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Bishop swings wildly with an uppercut but Judah uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Judah lands an elbow inside.
Judah works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Judah scores with a knee to the head.
Judah lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Judah blocks an uppercut.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Lucas Bishop has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Daniel Judah is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
Bishop pushes Judah back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Judah blocking some punches.
Bishop tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Judah's elbow.
Judah unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Bishop's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Judah using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Judah is working Bishop over against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Judah working Bishop over with knees to the body.
Judah lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Judah lands a nice elbow.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
A hook to the body from Bishop.
Bishop takes a knee right on the jaw!
A head punch blocked on the inside by Judah.
Bishop throws a head punch that misses.
Judah landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Judah lands an elbow that stopped Bishop in his tracks for a moment.
Judah digs a right hand underneath Bishop's ribcage. Bishop let out a lung full of air as it connected.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Judah connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bishop's face.
Bishop tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Judah's elbow.
Judah lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Bishop.
Bishop tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Judah's elbow.

And that's the end of the fight!
Daniel Judah comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Judah has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Josh West scores the fight 27:30
Judge Micheangelo Fripello scores the fight 27:30
Judge Roger Salmon scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Daniel Judah!
Daniel Judah seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.