PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Medieval Mercenary (ranked 21222 p4p, 1500 weight class) and Von Kaiser (ranked 480 p4p, 167 weight class). Kaiser has chosen Punch Out Theme as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mercenary
vs
Kaiser

185 cm
39
165
12 - 23 - 2

175 cm
21
162
10 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good knees
Experienced

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Conquest Nutrition™ (160Q) $48
Wrestler Wayfare

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 23 - 2, fighting out of New York, Medieval Mercenary!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Von Kaiser!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, William Gold and Richard Clark.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mercenary misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Kaiser cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Mercenary lands a nice looking body kick.
Mercenary scores with a nice strike.
Mercenary misses with an uppercut
and Kaiser cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

Mercenary is rocked!

It looks like Medieval Mercenary has been cut.
Kaiser ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Mercenary moves away.
Oh Mercenary is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Kaiser cracks Mercenary with a big right hand and Mercenary goes down!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Kaiser controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
Kaiser working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Kaiser working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Mercenary seems to have got his legs back now.
Kaiser is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaiser trying to control but Mercenary is working from the bottom.
Kaiser loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Kaiser lands a couple of digs.
Mercenary wants to stand up but Kaiser is controlling him.
Kaiser forces his way into half guard.
Kaiser is pressing down on Mercenary's thigh, looking to free his foot. Mercenary is holding on for now.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.

Mercenary is defending against the submission attempts here by Kaiser.
Kaiser tries to pass to full mount but Mercenary defends it.
Mercenary knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Kaiser on the ground.
Kaiser thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Mercenary's head.
Kaiser is figuring out what he wants to do next.
Mercenary on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Mercenary tries to get out of the position.
Kaiser works his way into full mount!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The referee warns Mercenary that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Mercenary is in a horrible position here. Kaiser smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Mercenary is trying to get to the cage to help him get back to his feet.
Kaiser drops a big elbow. That's hurt Mercenary! More shots from Kaiser and the ref steps in! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Von Kaiser!
A very excited looking Von Kaiser 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.