PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Nikolay Panayotov (ranked 5222 p4p, 452 weight class) and Tom Jones (ranked 5621 p4p, 462 weight class). Panayotov's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Mad World - Gary Jules / Tears For Fears (Cover by Jasmine Thompson). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Panayotov
vs
Jones

196 cm
29
210 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

180 cm
32
183 lbs
9 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Pit Bull Development

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Nikolay Panayotov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tom Jones!
The judges for this bout are , Jack Bonds and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Jones drives through and clinches with Panayotov against the cage.
Jones tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Panayotov's elbow.
Jones blocks an uppercut.
Panayotov prevents a body shot from Jones.
Jones lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Jones.
Panayotov scores with a shoulder strike.
Panayotov misses with a body punch.
Panayotov throws a head punch that misses.
Jones prevents a body shot from Panayotov.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Panayotov.
Jones working aggressively here.
Panayotov lands a right hand.
Jones blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Jones blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Jones.
Panayotov swings wildly with an uppercut but Jones uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jones blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Jones tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Jones.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jones lands a right hand.
A head punch on the inside from Panayotov fails to land.
A body shot lands from Panayotov.
Panayotov lands a body punch in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jones blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Jones goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Panayotov misses with a shot to the kidneys.
A head punch on the inside from Panayotov fails to land.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Jones.
Panayotov lands with a right to the head.
A shot in the inside from Panayotov.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Panayotov.
Jones fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Nice body punch from Panayotov - that landed with a thud.
A short right from Panayotov on the inside.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Panayotov creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Panayotov lands a shot to the body.
Jones looks winded!
Jones swings wildly with an uppercut but Panayotov uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jones tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Panayotov's elbow.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Panayotov.
Jones misses with a hook from the clinch.
Jones blocks a body shot from Panayotov.
Panayotov misses with a hook from the clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Panayotov misses with a body punch.
Nice body punch from Panayotov.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Panayotov lands on the inside with an uppercut.
A short right from Panayotov on the inside.
Panayotov fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A short uppercut from Panayotov.
Panayotov working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Panayotov misses with the head strike.
Jones misses with a punch to the body.
A nice right hand lands inside from Panayotov.
Panayotov digs a right hand into Jones's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Jones's gas tank.
Panayotov tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Panayotov working aggressively here.
Panayotov works on Jones's body with a couple of short punches.
A short uppercut from Panayotov.
Panayotov lands a left hand that snaps the head of Jones backwards.

Panayotov breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Panayotov cracks Jones on the jaw with a powerful right hand and Jones falls backwards against the cage. Panayotov follows up with more strikes that drop Jones to his knees. Panayotov keeps the pressure on and the referee jumps in to save Jones! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nikolay Panayotov!
Our winner, Nikolay Panayotov, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.