PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mario Huber (ranked 5091 p4p, 489 weight class) and Desmond Flannery (ranked 4945 p4p, 482 weight class). Huber comes to the cage accompanied by Enter Sandman. Flannery has chosen Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Huber
vs
Flannery

190 cm
42
240 lbs
30 - 52 - 0

192 cm
43
270 lbs
25 - 24 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Experienced

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Powerful

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 30 - 52 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Mario Huber!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 25 - 24 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Desmond Flannery!
The judges for this bout are Robert Douchet, Yves DeLean and Ian Loll.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Huber shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Flannery napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Huber cracks Flannery with a big right hand but Flannery just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.

Huber thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.

Huber wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Flannery, who protects the arm well.

Huber is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Flannery is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.
Huber working the strikes but Flannery uses the opportunity to regain half guard.
Huber working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Huber is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.

Flannery is defending against the submission attempts here by Huber.
Huber has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Huber prevents Flannery from improving his position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Flannery is looking to control Huber's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Flannery avoid being mounted?

Huber looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

Flannery is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Huber pulls his head out easily.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Flannery has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Huber is working away from the top position though.

Huber seems to be working for a kimura but Flannery defends the submission attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Flannery wants to get back to full guard.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Huber not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.

Huber seems to be working for a kimura but Flannery defends the submission attempt.

Huber is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Huber landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Huber sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Flannery defending well though.
Huber looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Flannery is controlling Huber's trapped leg to prevent Huber from advancing to side control.

Huber is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Flannery doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Huber.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Huber prevents Flannery from improving his position.
Flannery moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Flannery has Huber pulled in close to control his posture.
Flannery manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Huber manages to get himself to full guard.

Huber throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Flannery content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.

Huber is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Flannery defends well.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Flannery is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

Huber working for a triangle but Flannery defends it easily.
Huber is breathing heavily.
Huber keeping moving, preventing Flannery from controlling successfully.
Flannery makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Flannery must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Flannery postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

Huber is rocked!
Flannery loads up on a big left hand. Huber felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Flannery looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! Huber can't hide his disappointment, as Flannery celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Desmond Flannery!
A relieved looking Desmond Flannery thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.