PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Lewis Burwell Puller (ranked 820 p4p, 860 weight class) and Adrian Picklesbly (ranked 46 p4p, 48 weight class). Puller comes to the cage accompanied by Hello. Picklesbly has chosen Angels in Heaven - Chris Rodrigues & the Spoon Lady as his entrance music. Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Adrian Picklesbly enters the cage!

Puller
vs
Picklesbly

170 cm
34
138
16 - 14 - 1

169 cm
29
144
16 - 6 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Granite chin

Voodoo Nutrition
KOMBAT KLOTHING

Brooklyn Threads
Brooklyn Apothecary

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 14 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Lewis Burwell Puller!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Adrian Picklesbly!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Donald Grub and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Picklesbly lands a jab to the nose.
Picklesbly keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Puller throws an off balance right hand
and Picklesbly counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Puller misses with a right hand
and Picklesbly counters with a one-two to the body.
Puller throws a series of punches but Picklesbly moves out of range.
Picklesbly slips a jab from Puller.
Picklesbly blocks a jab.
Puller takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Picklesbly is looking to clinch but Puller is avoiding it.
Picklesbly rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Puller moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Puller avoids a punch combination nicely.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Puller misses with a right hand
and Picklesbly counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Puller thinking.
Puller misses with a right hand
and Picklesbly counters with a nice uppercut.
Puller missing with a left hand there. Picklesbly was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Picklesbly looks to score with a jab to the body but Puller is just out of range.
Picklesbly defending well as Puller loads up on a big left hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Puller misses the body punch
and Picklesbly counters with a nice uppercut.

Picklesbly has managed to clinch.
Puller avoids the elbow strike from Picklesbly, against the cage.
Puller misses with the head strike.
Picklesbly avoiding damage as Puller throws knees to the body.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Puller misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Picklesbly.
Picklesbly told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
Picklesbly tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Picklesbly gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Puller swings wildly with an uppercut but Picklesbly uses good head movement to avoid it.
Puller lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Picklesbly backwards.
Puller throws a punch but it's blocked by Picklesbly.
Puller misses with the head strike.
Picklesbly throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Puller swings wildly with an uppercut but Picklesbly uses good head movement to avoid it.
Puller tries a knee to the head but Picklesbly blocks it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Picklesbly gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Picklesbly misses with a body punch.
Puller lands on the inside with an uppercut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Puller lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Picklesbly lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Puller prevents a body shot from Picklesbly.
Puller takes an elbow to the temple.
Picklesbly looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Picklesbly tries to work over Puller's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Puller can't find room to land a body shot as Picklesbly controls the action.
Picklesbly scores with a shot to the side of Puller's head.
Puller is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Picklesbly is defending well for now.
Picklesbly lands a right hand.

Puller is rocked!
Picklesbly creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Puller's defenses.
Oh Puller is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Picklesbly creates some distance and fires off a vicious elbow that drops Puller! He pounces and finishes the fight with more strikes! Nice KO for Picklesbly.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Adrian Picklesbly!
A relieved looking Adrian Picklesbly thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Lewis Burwell Puller spoke after the fight, saying 'It was not my night. Congratulations to my opponent. You were the better man tonight. You just gave me the ultimate motivation.'.