PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tony O Rangers (ranked 279 p4p, 43 weight class) and Tel Britton (ranked 293 p4p, 44 weight class). O Rangers comes to the cage accompanied by Hold on to you. Tony O Rangers has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

O Rangers
vs
Britton

195 cm
34
265 lbs
24 - 11 - 2

220 cm
38
267 lbs
35 - 18 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Sin City Allstars

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 24 - 11 - 2, fighting out of Hilo, Tony O Rangers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 35 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Tel Britton!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Britton looks to land a right hand but O Rangers moved out of range.
Britton uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by O Rangers.
Britton throws out a counter right but O Rangers avoids it with no problem.
Britton throws a jab but it's blocked by O Rangers.
O Rangers on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.

It looks like Tony O Rangers has been cut.
A big left from Britton misses.
Britton keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
O Rangers misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Britton pushing out the jab but it's not landing.

O Rangers ducks straight into an uppercut from Britton and tumbles to the canvas! It’s a flash knockdown though - O Rangers manages to regain guard straight away.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Britton postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
O Rangers is trying to control the position but Britton postures up.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Britton loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Britton postures up and lands a big shot to O Rangers's brow.
Britton loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
O Rangers is adopting a defensive guard.
Britton throwing strikes from guard but O Rangers blocks nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Britton with a flurry of punches that miss.
Britton postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Britton forces his way into half guard.
Britton throws a strike but O Rangers avoids it easily and moves to full guard.

O Rangers looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Britton is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
O Rangers is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Britton throwing strikes from guard but O Rangers blocks nicely.
O Rangers might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Britton stands up over O Rangers, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Britton has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
O Rangers working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Britton.
Britton throws a big elbow that misses.
O Rangers avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Britton keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of O Rangers's head.
Britton with a nice head shot there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Britton lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Britton working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of O Rangers's head.
Britton missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Britton lands a couple of digs.
O Rangers trying to control the position.
O Rangers working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Britton.
Britton working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Britton working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of O Rangers's head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Britton postures up and lands a big shot to O Rangers's brow.
Britton working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Britton stopping the sweep attempt from O Rangers.
Britton working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Britton with a flurry of punches that miss.
O Rangers seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
Britton is in close to O Rangers's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Britton missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
O Rangers is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Britton looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
O Rangers stalling.

O Rangers seems to be working for a kimura but Britton defends the submission attempt.
Britton tries to get to full guard but O Rangers has control of the leg.
O Rangers slows the pace down in half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
O Rangers tries to pass the half guard into mount. Britton knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
O Rangers is looking for the mount but instead finds himself back in full guard.
O Rangers passes Britton's left leg - he's now in half guard.

O Rangers seems to be looking for submissions.
O Rangers passes the guard and advances to mount!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tel Britton dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Tony O Rangers's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

O Rangers misses the jab.
O Rangers keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Britton.
Britton has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
O Rangers scores with a jab to the body.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by O Rangers.
Britton misses with a looping right.
O Rangers drops down looking for a counter takedown but Britton sprawls and moves away.
O Rangers takes a swing at Britton's ribcage but misses.
Britton sizes up O Rangers with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Britton throws a hook but O Rangers avoids it easily.
No joy there for O Rangers, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
O Rangers slips a jab from Britton.
O Rangers attempts a counter takedown but Britton avoids it well and moves away.
O Rangers steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Britton.
O Rangers misses the shot to the body.
O Rangers lands a right hook to the body.
O Rangers ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Britton moves away.
Britton with a jab.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Britton swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Britton throws a jab but it's blocked by O Rangers.
O Rangers misses the shot to the body.

Britton bobbing and weaving well here. And he's unloaded with a massive right hand that drops O Rangers! He dives into his guard looking to finish!

O Rangers is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Britton with a nice head shot there.
Oh O Rangers is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Britton scoring with punches to the head and body.
Britton loads up on a big left hand. O Rangers felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Britton looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! O Rangers can't hide his disappointment, as Britton celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:23 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tel Britton!
Tel Britton really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that BuriedAlive// Fight Gear logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.