PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hank Jones (ranked 22487 p4p, 671 weight class) and Atthapong Payakaroon (ranked 5735 p4p, 585 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Jones
vs
Payakaroon

189 cm
23
212 lbs
4 - 6 - 0

195 cm
18
223 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Hank Jones!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Atthapong Payakaroon!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Timothy Bukovac and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A jab lands there for Jones.
Jones checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.

Payakaroon gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Jones lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Payakaroon backwards.
Payakaroon can't find room to land a body shot as Jones controls the action.
Payakaroon misses with a body punch.

Jones manages to pull guard. Let's see whether he can land a sub off his back.
Payakaroon looking to sit in guard and control but Jones gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Payakaroon looking to control.
Payakaroon tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Jones with a nice head shot there.

Jones gets to his feet - Payakaroon follows without any prompting.

Jones drops Payakaroon with a hook right on the temple. He thinks about going to the ground but Payakaroon looks back up at him and smiles so Jones waves him back to his feet - he obviously thinks he can knock him out after that shot landed.

Payakaroon is rocked!

It looks like Atthapong Payakaroon has been cut.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Jones shoots in for a takedown. SLAM! Brutal! Payakaroon is out cold and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Slam). Hank Jones!