PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cole Watts (ranked 4863 p4p, 2892 weight class) and Expendable Crewman V (ranked 0 p4p, 115 weight class). Watts comes to the cage accompanied by Shook Ones - By: Mobb Deep. Crewman V has chosen Star Trek as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Cole Watts has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Watts
vs
Crewman V

194 cm
27
285
2 - 4 - 0

200 cm
37
286
20 - 18 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Urban Fighter

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 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Cole Watts!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Expendable Crewman V!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Tiny Johnson and Chris Downing.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

The fight moves into the clinch position.
We've been hearing reports that Watts has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Watts dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Watts lands with a right to the head.
Crewman V misses with a hook from the clinch.
Crewman V lands a left hand that snaps the head of Watts backwards.
A head punch on the inside from Crewman V fails to land.
Crewman V blocks a punch to the side of the head.
A head punch on the inside from Crewman V fails to land.

Watts jumps guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Crewman V accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Crewman V with a flurry of punches that miss.
Crewman V missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Watts trying to keep a closed guard but Crewman V is proving a slippery customer.
Crewman V is in close to Watts's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Crewman V in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Watts utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Watts preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.

Watts is looking for a triangle but Crewman V pushes his legs off easily.
Crewman V lands a couple of digs.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Crewman V postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Crewman V throws an elbow that misses. Watts uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Crewman V's guard. Nice move by Watts!

Crewman V tries to strike from the bottom.
Crewman V throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Crewman V throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Watts stands up over Crewman V, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Watts with a nice head shot there.
Watts won't allow Crewman V to sweep him here.
Crewman V doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Crewman V throws a nice elbow from the bottom.
Crewman V doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Crewman V doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Crewman V manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Watts manages to get himself to full guard.

Crewman V postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.

Watts is rocked!
Crewman V loads up on a big left hand. Watts felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Crewman V looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! Watts can't hide his disappointment, as Crewman V celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Expendable Crewman V!
A relieved looking Expendable Crewman V thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.