PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Macho Man Savage (ranked 2361 p4p, 1895 weight class) and John Lawrence (ranked 308 p4p, 253 weight class). Lawrence has chosen No Surrender as his entrance music. John Lawrence has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Savage
vs
Lawrence

190 cm
28
200
8 - 7 - 0

180 cm
27
195
14 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Cardio machine

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Fenrir Fightgear - Anno 2013

Urban Fighter

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Macho Man Savage!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Lawrence!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Percy O'Donnell and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

A momentary lapse in concentration from Lawrence enables Savage to shoot in and score with a neat double leg. Lawrence manages to secure a closed guard as the fighters hit the mat.
Savage is looking to work some ground and pound but Lawrence has wrist control.
Savage postures up.
Lawrence manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Savage manages to get himself to full guard.

Savage has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Lawrence can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Lawrence trying to control the position from guard on top but Savage is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

Savage looking for a guillotine here but Lawrence defends easily.
Lawrence looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Lawrence trying to control the position from guard on top but Savage is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Savage looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Lawrence passes into side control.

Lawrence is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Savage has escaped the position, nice work there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Savage is looking for a sweep.
Lawrence trying to control the action but Savage is working from the bottom.
Savage tries to buck Lawrence off but Lawrence is having none of it.
Lawrence tries to move to mount but Savage blocks the move with his legs.
Lawrence looks up at the clock and then as Savage takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Lawrence smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Lawrence advances to mount.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Savage is trying desperately to improve position.
Lawrence pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Lawrence landing strikes, looking to finish!
Lawrence is in the full mount, landing strikes.

Lawrence is working for a guillotine from mount but Savage frees his head quite easily.
Lawrence in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

Savage is rocked!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence wants to control the pace but Savage is squirming around nicely.
Savage really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Savage is in a tricky position but he's been working on his transitions down at Kalashnikov ELITE MMA Gym , so we'll see if he gets out of it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Lawrence scoring with strikes but Savage is staying in there.
Oh Savage is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Savage is trying to escape the mount.
Savage seems to have got his legs back now.
Lawrence with a couple of short strikes.
Savage tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Lawrence controlling his opponent.
Savage is squirming around, avoiding Lawrence's attempts to control the action.
Lawrence dominating with strikes here.
Savage can't escape the position.
Lawrence tries to control but Savage wriggling away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Savage gets back to half guard.
Lawrence has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Lawrence lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Savage quite badly. Savage pulls Lawrence in close trying to recover. Lawrence postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Savage on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Savage doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Lawrence!
John Lawrence seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.