PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Spinning Fire (ranked 1294 p4p, 1394 weight class) and John Riverson (ranked 47 p4p, 51 weight class). Riverson has chosen J.Ralph - Kansas City Shuffle as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Fire
vs
Riverson

209 cm
23
290
9 - 3 - 0

225 cm
41
296
20 - 28 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Powerful

UnderGround Supplements

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Spinning Fire!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 28 - 0, fighting out of New York, John Riverson!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Riverson misses with a head kick.
Fire attempts a counter takedown but Riverson avoids it well and moves away.
Riverson tries to land a body kick

and Fire counters with a takedown into side control.
Fire happy to just control the position for now.
Riverson is trying to get back to half guard.
Fire lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Riverson down.
Fire in side control lands a decent elbow.
Riverson is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Fire landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.

Riverson is rocked!
Riverson is looking for a sweep.
Riverson keeps trying to improve his position.
Fire scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Riverson to see if he's OK.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Fire lands an elbow.
Fire looks up at the clock and then as Riverson takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Fire smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Riverson sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Riverson tries to get to full guard but Fire has control of the leg.
Riverson has hold of Fire's hands but Fire slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Fire prevents Riverson from improving his position.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Fire in particular looking to stall.
Fire is looking to take a break and control but Riverson is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Fire sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Ground and pound from Fire.
Riverson is trying to get back to full guard.
Fire seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
Riverson is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Fire lands strikes from half guard.
Fire performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Riverson is trying to get back to full guard.
Fire scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Fire 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.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Fire lands a nice short elbow.
Fire content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Fire looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Riverson with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Riverson taking some punishment here, with Fire in his half guard.
Riverson is looking for a sweep. Fire is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Fire scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Riverson is still in real trouble! Can Fire finish him?
Fire is trying to control. Riverson wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Fire is really struggling to control Riverson but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Riverson seems to have recovered his senses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Fire drops an elbow to the side of Riverson's head.
Fire seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Riverson does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Riverson moves into full guard.

Riverson looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Fire passes into side control.
Riverson is working to avoid the ground and pound but Fire connects with a decent elbow.
Riverson regains half guard.
Fire lands with a punch from half guard.
Fire scores with a big shot! Riverson's head bounced off the canvas with a huge thud! More strikes land and the referee has jumped in to save Riverson! He was hurt real bad - good stoppage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Spinning Fire!
After winning the bout, Spinning Fire thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.