PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Owen Fernandez (ranked 2730 p4p, 4215 weight class) and Mathew Church (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Fernandez
vs
Church

190 cm
25
200
4 - 0 - 0

225 cm
25
205
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Very strong

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Tends to cut

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Owen Fernandez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Mathew Church!
The judges for this bout are Darius Henderson, Steve Erwin and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fernandez fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.

Church clinches up with Fernandez and pushes him back against the cage.

Church manages to break the clinch.
Church is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.

Fernandez moves into the clinch.
Fernandez has a couple of punches blocked by Church.
Church misses with a body punch.

Fernandez is trying to trip Church. He has hold of a leg but Church is hopping around, keeping his balance for the moment. Fernandez persists though and gets the takedown into guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Church is trying to keep Fernandez in close.
Fernandez postures up and lands a big shot to Church's brow.
Fernandez lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Fernandez's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Fernandez's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Fernandez lands a couple of digs.

Church is rocked!
Fernandez loads up on a big left hand. Church felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Fernandez looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! Church can't hide his disappointment, as Fernandez celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Owen Fernandez!