PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Reuben Kennedy (ranked 3817 p4p, 4366 weight class) and Mark Banner (ranked 490 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Kennedy
vs
Banner

180 cm
25
191
1 - 0 - 0

178 cm
25
195
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Determined

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Reuben Kennedy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Mark Banner!
The judges for this bout are Sandra Marshall, Daniel Franklin and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kennedy swings away with a body shot that misses

and Banner counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Kennedy tries to kick Banner off in order to stand up. Banner Avoids the leg push though and dives into side control.

Banner is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Kennedy has escaped the position, nice work there.
Banner lands a nice forearm strike.
Banner in side control, throwing shots but Kennedy defends.
Banner misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Banner creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Kennedy sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Banner postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Banner misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Banner looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Kennedy is avoiding damage well.
Banner misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kennedy is not content to let Banner control the position.
Banner in side control, throwing shots but Kennedy defends.
Banner misses with the ground and pound.
Kennedy managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Banner.
Sloppy strikes there by Banner.
Kennedy takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Banner misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Banner tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Kennedy is breathing heavily.
Banner lands an elbow.
Banner is chipping away with strikes.
Banner tries to score with some ground and pound. Kennedy controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Banner scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Kennedy to see if he's OK.
Banner is working Kennedy over with some ground and pound from side control.
Banner lands a nice forearm strike.
Banner lands a decent elbow from side control.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Banner working the ground and pound but Kennedy is defending the strikes.
Banner sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Kennedy is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Banner in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Banner lands some shots froms side control.

Kennedy is rocked!
Kennedy knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Banner on the ground.
Banner scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Kennedy is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Banner can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mark Banner!