PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Danny Mangold (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nathanal Hughes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mangold comes to the cage accompanied by Dead Prez "Be Healthy". The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mangold
vs
Hughes

190 cm
24
220 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

190 cm
25
213 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Danny Mangold!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Nathanal Hughes!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mangold slips a straight right by Hughes.
Mangold jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Mangold - that will leave a mark!
Hughes ducks right into an uppercut from Mangold.
Hughes throws a hook to the side of Mangold's head but Mangold sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Danny Mangold seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Mangold scores with a crisp jab that stopped Hughes in his tracks.
Hughes takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Hughes takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Mangold dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Mangold shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
The referee warns Hughes that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Mangold cracks Hughes with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Mangold lands with some strikes.
Hughes is bucking up trying to escape but Mangold cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Hughes defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Mangold.
Hughes is bucking up trying to escape but Mangold cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mangold putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hughes wants to hold on but Mangold pushes him away.
Hughes regains half guard.
Mangold frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Mangold lands with some strikes.
Hughes is wriggling around trying to escape.
Mangold with a couple of short strikes.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Hughes tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Mangold can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Hughes is looking to escape.
Mangold has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Hughes's face.
Hughes keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Mangold is landing with some decent strikes but Hughes is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hughes keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Mangold scoring with strikes but Hughes is staying in there.
Mangold has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Hughes's face.
The referee warns Hughes that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Mangold lands with some strikes.
Mangold looking to control and managing it successfully.
Mangold with good strikes from the mount here!
Hughes tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Mangold lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Mangold postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Hughes looks a forlorn figure.
Hughes tries to hold on but Mangold pushes him away.
Mangold postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Hughes looks a forlorn figure.
Mangold raining down shots from the mount!

Hughes is rocked!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mangold softens up his opponent with a couple of shots there and then CRACK! One massive shot lands there and Hughes is out cold! Mangold jumps to his feet and celebrates on the cage with the fans, who are, quite frankly, going absolutely mental!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Danny Mangold!
A victorious Danny Mangold thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.