PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mickey Garcia (ranked 136 p4p, 101 weight class) and Juanito Escobar (ranked 20 p4p, 13 weight class). Garcia comes to the cage accompanied by S.G. Sinnicks - St Patrick Battalion. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Garcia
vs
Escobar

180 cm
33
185
30 - 12 - 1

190 cm
30
185
20 - 9 - 0

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World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Heavy handed

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 30 - 12 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mickey Garcia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Juanito Escobar!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Escobar scores with a body shot.
Garcia takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
A swing and a miss from Garcia.
Garcia throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Garcia gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Escobar looking to pass the guard.
Escobar is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Escobar trying to control but Garcia is working from the bottom.
Escobar wants to pass the guard but Garcia is keeping the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Garcia is trying to control the position but Escobar postures up.
Garcia is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Escobar looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Escobar trying to control from the bottom.

Escobar actively working from the bottom here.
Garcia lands with a punch from half guard.
Garcia 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.
Garcia working Escobar over with strikes.
Escobar wants to improve his position but Garcia is controlling well.
Garcia is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
We've been hearing that Garcia has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
Escobar wants to improve his position but Garcia is controlling well.

Escobar looking for submissions off his back.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Garcia is nestled in close to Escobar, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Escobar regains full guard. Nicely done.
Garcia with a nice head shot there.
Garcia works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Escobar trying to control from the bottom.
Escobar taking some punishment here, with Garcia in his half guard.
Garcia prevents Escobar from improving his position.

Escobar is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Garcia pulls his head out easily.
Garcia scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Garcia is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Garcia lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Garcia wants to lay and pray for a moment but Escobar keeps working.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Escobar is trying to get back to full guard.
Garcia is looking to take a break and control but Escobar is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Garcia frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Escobar is trying to escape the mount.
Escobar regains half guard.
Escobar is trying to maintain the position but Garcia is very close to passing his half guard.
Garcia looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Garcia passes to side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Escobar is looking to reverse the position.
Garcia working the ground and pound.
Escobar tries to control but end up mounted... ooooh, that's bad.
Escobar is trying desperately to improve position.
Escobar is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Garcia pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Escobar tries to hold on but Garcia postures up.
Garcia pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Mickey Garcia dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Garcia is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Garcia tries to move into range but Escobar moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
A swing and a miss from Escobar.
Escobar lands with a nice body punch.

Garcia drops Escobar with a big left hand and mounts him. Escobar is in big trouble!

Escobar is rocked!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
A big strike lands for Garcia! That's really hurt Escobar and he's turned his back - Garcia keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Garcia jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:34 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mickey Garcia!
Mickey Garcia seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.