PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mbape Smooth (ranked 5122 p4p, 25038 weight class) and Abdul Jcool (ranked 480 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Jcool's choice of entrance music: Eye of the tiger. Mbape Smooth has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Smooth
vs
Jcool

195 cm
22
190
3 - 4 - 0

195 cm
19
195
8 - 10 - 0

Decent wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Very quick

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Knockout power

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 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Mbape Smooth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Abdul Jcool!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Daniel Blasius and Radbod Blank.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Smooth forces Jcool back against the cage and clinches.
Jcool's coach down at Hellfire Academy was telling us pre-fight that they have been working on Jcool's balance. Obviously they view that as a key factor in the outcome of this fight.
Smooth has a couple of punches blocked by Jcool.
Smooth lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Smooth scores with a shot to the side of Jcool's head.
Smooth lands an uppercut.
Smooth has Jcool pressed against the cage, preventing Jcool from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Smooth lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A short uppercut from Smooth.
Smooth throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Jcools head.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Smooth creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Smooth lands a hook to the side of the head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Smooth working aggressively here.
Smooth working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Smooth lands with a right to the head.

Jcool is rocked!
Smooth misses with a short punch on the inside.
Jcool is still on wobbly legs! Can Smooth finish him?
Smooth fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Jcool blocking some punches.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Smooth.
Smooth fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Jcool blocking some punches.
Jcool seems to have recovered his senses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A shot in the inside from Smooth.
Smooth creates a bit of space for himself and rocks Jcool with a big uppercut! Jcool tries to clinch up but Smooth pushes him back against the cage and lands another monster strike that crumples Jcool to the mat! Jcool covers up and Smooth unloads with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:13 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Mbape Smooth!
A very excited looking Mbape Smooth made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.
Abdul Jcool was interviewed post fight and said '"Everybody out there know I beat him, I controlled the fight, he was missing, I hit him plenty more times. I beat him.Let me talk something... I want to thank the whole hood who came out here. I love y'all. I did this for the hood, you know I beat that boy.'.