PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Pascal Popper (ranked 856 p4p, 1723 weight class) and Gabriel Mil (ranked 110 p4p, 233 weight class). The key to victory for Pascal Popper has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Popper
vs
Mil

190 cm
28
220
10 - 7 - 0

186 cm
28
220
7 - 7 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Brawler
Good gas tank

High Quality Beef 🐄

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 10 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Pascal Popper!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 7 - 1, fighting out of New York, Gabriel Mil!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, Daniel Bishop and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Mil darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Mil sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Popper on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Popper tries to get out of the position.
Popper won't allow Mil to pass to mount.
Popper is refusing to be controlled, as Mil sits in half guard.
Mil tries to pass the half guard into mount. Popper knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Mil not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Mil slows the pace down in half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Let's hope that Mil has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Mil is looking to take a break and control but Popper is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Mil thows a huge punch but Popper dodges it nicely.
Mil keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
Mil throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Popper keeping control of the position.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.
Popper knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Mil on the ground.
Mil is figuring out what he wants to do next.

The referee has motioned to the fighters to stand back up.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Mil keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Popper.
Mil misses with a takedown attempt
letting Popper counter with a right hand.
Mil gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Popper counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Mil fails with the takedown
and Popper connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Pascal Popper has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Gabriel Mil.
Mil misses with a takedown attempt
and Popper counters with a stiff right hand.
Mil doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Popper counters with a nice right hand that sends Mil toppling to the canvas! Mil scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Popper finish him?!

Mil is rocked!
Mil doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Popper counters with a right hand from hell and Mil is out cold! A vicious knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Pascal Popper!