PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marvin Heemeyer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Christopher Demarcco (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Heemeyer
vs
Demarcco

181 cm
24
200 lbs
5 - 5 - 0

190 cm
19
215 lbs
5 - 3 - 1

BJJ Blue Belt
Good knees
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Marvin Heemeyer!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Christopher Demarcco!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Bruno Hogan and Donatello Bradman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Demarcco takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Demarcco avoids the head kick by Heemeyer.

Demarcco clinches with his opponent.
Heemeyer dodges an elbow strike from Demarcco.
Demarcco blocks an elbow strike from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer misses with a knee to the head.
Demarcco throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Heemeyer connects with a nasty looking knee right to Demarcco's face.

It looks like Christopher Demarcco has been cut.
Demarcco lands an elbow that stopped Heemeyer in his tracks for a moment.
Demarcco displaying some good clinch control by pressing Heemeyer up against the cage.

Heemeyer breaks from the clinch.
Demarcco fails in his attempt to clinch.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Demarcco tries to clinch there but Heemeyer circles away.
Heemeyer scores with a head kick.
Demarcco moves out of range of the body kick from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Heemeyer scores with a leg kick.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Heemeyer lands with a kick to the ribs.
Demarcco looks gassed!
Heemeyer with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Demarcco blocks a head kick by Heemeyer.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Demarcco blocks a head kick by Heemeyer.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Heemeyer tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Heemeyer looks to land a body kick but Demarcco moved away.
Demarcco moves out of range of the body kick from Heemeyer.
Demarcco stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Demarcco takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Demarcco checks the leg kick.
Heemeyer throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Heemeyer throws a head kick that misses.
Heemeyer is looking to score with low kicks.
Demarcco tries to clinch but Heemeyer is having none of it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Heemeyer throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Heemeyer misses with a series of wild punches.
Heemeyer pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Demarcco wants to clinch up but Heemeyer keeps it at a distance.
Demarcco moves out of range as Heemeyer throws a body kick.
Heemeyer closes the distance and clinches up with Demarcco, looking for a takedown. Heemeyer pushes Demarcco against the cage but Demarcco circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Heemeyer misses with a body kick.
Heemeyer tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Heemeyer swats away the attempt to clinch by Demarcco.
Heemeyer looks to land a body kick but Demarcco moved away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Demarcco is looking to clinch but Heemeyer is avoiding it.
Heemeyer misses with a head kick.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Demarcco takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Demarcco avoids the head kick by Heemeyer.
Demarcco is looking to clinch.
Demarcco tries to close the distance and clinch but Heemeyer swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Heemeyer scores with a kick to the body.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Christopher Demarcco is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Heemeyer circles away from the clinch attempt.
Demarcco tries to close the distance and clinch up but Heemeyer swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Heemeyer throws a low kick, looking for Demarcco's leg but Demarcco calmly moves out of range.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Heemeyer goes for a high kick. It partially lands.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Demarcco moves into the clinch.
Demarcco tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Heemeyer tries to land a knee to the head but Demarcco blocks with his arms.
Heemeyer blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Demarcco taking a breather.
Demarcco misses with an elbow over the top.
Demarcco trying to land knees to the body.
Heemeyer using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Heemeyer lands a knee to the head.

That has opened up Christopher Demarcco's cut even more.
Demarcco takes a knee right on the jaw!

Heemeyer manages to break the clinch.
Heemeyer connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Heemeyer lands a high kick!
Marvin Heemeyer seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Heemeyer looks to land a body kick but Demarcco moved away.
Demarcco blocks a head kick by Heemeyer.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Demarcco blocks the body kick.
Heemeyer tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Demarcco tries to clinch there but Heemeyer circles away.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Marvin Heemeyer dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Christopher Demarcco's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Heemeyer throws a head kick that Demarcco semi-blocks.
Demarcco is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
A slapping body kick lands there for Heemeyer.
Heemeyer thows a body kick. Demarcco tries to catch it but that hurt him.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Heemeyer goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Marvin Heemeyer is winning the standup battle so far.
Heemeyer lands a front kick.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Demarcco blocks a head kick by Heemeyer.
Heemeyer lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Heemeyer tries a head kick but it misses.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.

Heemeyer scores with a takedown into Demarcco's guard.
Heemeyer missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Heemeyer postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Heemeyer lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Heemeyer throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Heemeyer 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.
Heemeyer in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Heemeyer passes easily into side control. Nice work.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Demarcco takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Heemeyer throwing shots but missing, from side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Demarcco takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Heemeyer working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Heemeyer scoring with punches from side control.

Heemeyer thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Heemeyer lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Demarcco down.
Heemeyer working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Heemeyer working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Heemeyer cracks Demarcco with a big right hand but Demarcco just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Heemeyer misses with the ground and pound.
Heemeyer lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Demarcco down.
The ground and pound from Heemeyer seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Heemeyer sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Demarcco is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.

Heemeyer tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Heemeyer throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
The strikes coming from Heemeyer are missing the target in this wave of attacks.

Heemeyer decides to stand back up. Heemeyer steps back and let's Demarcco get back to his feet.
Heemeyer tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Demarcco blocks a head kick by Heemeyer.
Heemeyer throws a head kick but Demarcco moves out of range.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Horrible takedown by Heemeyer or perhaps it was just good defense by Demarcco which made him look bad.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Demarcco is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Heemeyer lands a head kick. Demarcco smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Marvin Heemeyer dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Christopher Demarcco's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action. This is the final round!

Demarcco tries to clinch but Heemeyer is having none of it.
Demarcco moves out of range as Heemeyer throws a body kick.
Demarcco blocks a low kick nicely.
Demarcco has developed a nice purple lump on his ribcage, as a result of some heavy body kicks from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer misses with a two punch combination.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Demarcco fails in his attempt to clinch.
Heemeyer swats away the attempt to clinch by Demarcco.
Demarcco tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Heemeyer paws at him with a jab and circles away.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Demarcco on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Demarcco tries to clinch there but Heemeyer circles away.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Demarcco fails in his attempt to clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Heemeyer misses with a head kick.
Demarcco wants to clinch.
A head kick misses from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer shoots in looking for a takedown. Demarcco tries to sprawl out of it but Heemeyer keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Demarcco manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Heemeyer lands a head kick!
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Heemeyer misses with a head kick.
Heemeyer shoots in for a takedown but Demarcco shows good takedown defense.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.

Demarcco clinches.
Heemeyer is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Demarcco gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Marvin Heemeyer. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Demarcco throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Heemeyer blocks it with crossed arms.
Heemeyer scores a nice knee to the body.
Demarcco stalling in the clinch.
Demarcco using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Demarcco taking a breather.
Demarcco misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Demarcco throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Heemeyer blocks it with crossed arms.
Heemeyer misses with a knee strike.
Heemeyer blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Heemeyer throws a knee to the head but misses.
Demarcco using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Heemeyer has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Heemeyer blocks the elbow strike.
Heemeyer dodges an elbow strike from Demarcco.
Demarcco stops a takedown attempt from Heemeyer.
Heemeyer is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Demarcco can do to turn this around?
Demarcco wants to stall.
Heemeyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Demarcco has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

Heemeyer manages to break the clinch.
Heemeyer tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Demarcco wants to clinch up but Heemeyer keeps it at a distance.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Horrible takedown by Heemeyer or perhaps it was just good defense by Demarcco which made him look bad.
Demarcco doesn't manage to clinch there - Heemeyer circles away.
Heemeyer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Heemeyer misses with a low kick as Demarcco jumps back.
Demarcco wants to clinch up but Heemeyer keeps it at a distance.
Demarcco tries to close the distance and clinch but Heemeyer swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Heemeyer misses with a head kick.
Heemeyer misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Heemeyer avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
A head kick misses from Heemeyer.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Horrible takedown by Heemeyer or perhaps it was just good defense by Demarcco which made him look bad.
Demarcco tries to clinch up.
Heemeyer shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Christopher Demarcco has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Demarcco wants to clinch.
Heemeyer throws a head kick but Demarcco moves out of range.
The fight stays on the outside here - Demarcco looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Heemeyer throws a sloppy head kick and Demarcco moves out of range easily.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Heemeyer tries to land a front kick but Demarcco steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Marvin Heemeyer is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Demarcco lands with a thumping leg kick.
Demarcco throws a low kick but it's checked well by Heemeyer.

And that's the end of the fight!
Christopher Demarcco comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Heemeyer has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Summer Carpenter scores the fight 29:27
Judge Bruno Hogan scores the fight 29:26
Judge Donatello Bradman scores the fight 29:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Marvin Heemeyer!