PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Piotr Rokicki (ranked 1340 p4p, 771 weight class) and Mickey Garcia (ranked 205 p4p, 117 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Garcia's choice of entrance music: S.G. Sinnicks - St Patrick Battalion. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Rokicki
vs
Garcia

183 cm
51
196
27 - 16 - 0

180 cm
28
185
20 - 8 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Very strong

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Granite chin

Brooklyn Apothecary
Brooklyn Threads

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 27 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Piotr Rokicki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 8 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mickey Garcia!
The judges for this bout are Topper Green, Ron Honeybunn and Chris Dean.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Garcia rushes in with a sloppy looking punch

and Rokicki counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Rokicki.
Rokicki has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Garcia is on top in guard.

Garcia with a flurry of punches that miss.
Garcia postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Rokicki wants to improve his position but instead Garcia has moved into half guard.
Garcia moves into full mount! Rokicki won't be happy about that!
Garcia tries to control but Rokicki wriggling away.
Garcia cracks Rokicki with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Rokicki is in a horrible position here. Garcia smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.

It looks like Piotr Rokicki has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Garcia trying to control but he's not successful this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Garcia lands a couple of good shots and Rokicki has given up his back, trying to escape the position!

Piotr Rokicki's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Garcia is raining down hard shots and and Rokicki has had enough - he's tapped out due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Mickey Garcia!
Our winner, Mickey Garcia, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.