PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tomas Wirth (ranked 4709 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rico Pimble (ranked 3814 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Wirth
vs
Pimble

190 cm
25
245 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
25
270 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Very confident

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Tomas Wirth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Rico Pimble!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Daniel Bishop and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Pimble closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Pimble pushes Wirth back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

It looks like Tomas Wirth has been cut.
Wirth working aggressively here.
Pimble pushes Wirth back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
With the fighters up against the cage, Wirth throws an elbow but misses.
Pimble lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Wirth.
Wirth is breathing heavily.
Pimble gets through Wirth's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Wirth could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Pimble makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Pimble.

Pimble drops Wirth onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Wirth is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!

Wirth is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Pimble pushes Wirth against the cage. Pimble is working some dirty boxing. Pimble pushes off with a quick right hook! Wirth goes down! Wirth tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Pimble moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rico Pimble!