PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Lyle Briggs (ranked 3976 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dante Calvacante (ranked 4645 p4p, 0 weight class). Lyle Briggs has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Briggs
vs
Calvacante

188 cm
25
245 lbs
3 - 5 - 0

200 cm
25
265 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
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 3 - 5 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Lyle Briggs!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Dante Calvacante !
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Daniel Franklin and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Calvacante missing with a left hand there. Briggs was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Calvacante misses with a wild combination.
Briggs throws a good cross that connects.
Calvacante moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
The fight stays on the outside here - Calvacante looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Calvacante steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Briggs.
Calvacante changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Briggs throws a looping overhand right but Calvacante ducks down to avoid it.

Calvacante moves into range and clinches up with Briggs.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Briggs misses with a body punch.
Calvacante has Briggs pressed against the cage, preventing Briggs from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Calvacante creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Calvacante lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Lyle Briggs has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Calvacante lands a nice shot to the body.
Briggs is breathing heavily.
Calvacante scores with a shoulder strike.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Calvacante creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A shot in the inside from Calvacante .
Calvacante lands a damaging elbow.
Calvacante lands a body punch.
Briggs could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Calvacante takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Nice body punch from Calvacante .
Calvacante lands a nice elbow.
Calvacante working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Calvacante is leaning against Briggs and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Calvacante cracks Briggs with a nice body shot.
Calvacante scores with a shoulder strike.

Briggs is rocked!
Calvacante creates some distance and fires off a vicious elbow that drops Briggs! He pounces and finishes the fight with more strikes! Nice KO for Calvacante .

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dante Calvacante !
A very excited looking Dante Calvacante rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.
Lyle Briggs spoke after the fight, saying 'I'll learn from this and come back stronger.'.