PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Mason Love (ranked 97 p4p, 691 weight class) and Julian Bashir (ranked 5 p4p, 56 weight class). Love comes to the cage accompanied by HonestKey- Music. The crowd seem to be enjoying Bashir's choice of entrance music: Exodus - The Toxic Waltz. Julian Bashir has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Love
vs
Bashir

165 cm
25
141
16 - 3 - 0

170 cm
27
140
13 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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Conviction
© Trap House

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Mason Love!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Julian Bashir!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Alec Ball and Steve Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Love misses with a hook.
Love moves into range and connects with a jab.
Bashir throws a shot to the body.
Love pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Bashir changes levels for a counter takedown but doesn't follow through with his attempt.
Love misses with a hook
enabling Bashir to counter with a crisp jab.

It looks like Mason Love has been cut.
Bashir works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Love throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Bashir.
Bashir misses with a hook.
Bashir cracks Love with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Love misses with a body shot
and Bashir counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
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!
Bashir misses with a right hand
and Love connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Love throws a shot from downtown. Bashir moves away and avoids it.
Love misses with a hook. Bashir ducked under it nicely.
Love ducks under a wild hook from Bashir.
Bashir throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love avoids the body shot from Bashir.
Love uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Bashir.
Love pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Mason Love is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Bashir misses with a body punch
and Bashir takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Love throws a hook but Bashir blocks it.
Love uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Bashir has time to react.
Love throws a one two combo.

Bashir is rocked!
Bashir ducks under a wild hook from Love.
Bashir throws a hook to the side of Love's head but Love sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
An attempted straight right counter from Love misses the target.
Bashir lands with a cross.
Julian Bashir seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Love takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Bashir lands with a right hand.
Love throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Bashir sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Love connects with a crisp jab.
Bashir misses with an uppercut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love avoids the body shot from Bashir.
Love connects with a crisp jab.
Love misses with a hook.
Love misses with the combination.
A slow jab from Love misses its intended target.
Bashir with the counter takedown but Love avoids it easily.
Love is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Love doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Bashir lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Bashir misses the jab.
Bashir misses the shot to the body.
Bashir lands a right hook to the body.
Bashir fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Bashir has been working his punching technique in the buildup to the fight and it appears to be paying off.
Bashir misses with a straight right.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Bashir counters with a left to the body.
Bashir connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Love's hands.
Love scores with a crisp jab that stopped Bashir in his tracks.
Bashir staying out of range there.
Bashir scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
A cross from Bashir lands.
Love misses with a hook
and Bashir counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Bashir clobbers Love with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

Love is rocked!

Love gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Oh Love is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Love trying to control the position here.
Bashir throwing strikes from guard but Love blocks nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love has his hands on Bashir's head, controlling the position.
Love seems to have got his legs back now.
Bashir working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Bashir seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.
Bashir has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Bashir content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Love controlling the position.

That's five minutes gone in the round.

Love looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Love keeping moving, preventing Bashir from controlling successfully.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.

Bashir drops back for a leg here. A bit of a high risk move... He's looking for a kneebar by the looks of things. Now both of them are looking for submissions. Bashir seems to have locked his on tight now - Love screams in pain and taps out furiously! It certainly was a high risk move but it's paid off for Bashir, as he picks up the win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Julian Bashir!
Julian Bashir is the new bantamweight champion!
A relieved looking Julian Bashir thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.