PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Rei Bourke (ranked 464 p4p, 57 weight class) and One Punch (ranked 2598 p4p, 300 weight class). Bourke comes to the cage accompanied by Champion. One Punch struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 156.4lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Bourke
vs
Punch

170 cm
28
146 lbs
18 - 2 - 0

167 cm
25
168 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent MT
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Riner Clothing and Laundry (85%)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 18 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Rei Bourke!
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, One Punch!
The judges for this bout are Richard Clark, James Ackerman and Daniel Bishop.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bourke lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Punch backs up against the cage.
Bourke lands with a right hand.
Bourke connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Punch swings away with a body shot that misses
and Bourke cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Bourke getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
Bourke bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Punch's head backwards.
Bourke scores with a jab. Punch acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Punch scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.

It looks like Rei Bourke has been cut.
Bourke scores with a nice strike.
Punch throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Bourke scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!

Punch is rocked!
Bourke drops Punch with a big left hand! Punch is injured, injured bad! Bourke jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rei Bourke!
A relieved looking Rei Bourke thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.