PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Mike Matthews (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Cornegy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Matthews comes to the cage accompanied by God's Gonna Cut You Down . Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Matthews
vs
Cornegy

185 cm
28
184 lbs
4 - 6 - 0

185 cm
26
180 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Decent elbows
Very quick

BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Determined

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 6 - 0, fighting out of New York, Mike Matthews!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, James Cornegy!
The judges for this bout are Eddie Farnsworth, Jonathan Paton and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Matthews misses with a body shot.
Cornegy throws a series of punches but Matthews avoids them all with ease.
Cornegy throws a hook to the side of Matthews's head but Matthews sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Matthews throws a chopping leg kick but Cornegy manages to avoid taking any serious damage.

Cornegy gets tackled into the cage by Matthews. Matthews maintains the clinch.
Matthews effectively controlling the action here.
Cornegy wants to break free but Matthews has control.
Matthews scores with a shoulder strike.
Cornegy is trying to push Matthews away but Matthews has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Matthews is struggling to control the position.
Matthews lands a shoulder strike.
Cornegy is trying to break the clinch but Matthews has him pressed against the cage.
Matthews misses with some punches.
Cornegy working hard to break the clinch.
Matthews softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Cornegy is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Matthews lands with a short shot to the head.
Cornegy is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Cornegy tries to circle away but Matthews has him pinned against the cage.
Cornegy avoids a wild elbow strike from Matthews.
A nice left hand lands by Matthews.
Matthews stalling against the cage.
Matthews lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Matthews lands an elbow inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Matthews.
Cornegy is trying to break the clinch but Matthews has him pressed against the cage.
Matthews misses with the head strike.
Cornegy tries to circle away but Matthews has him pinned against the cage.
Cornegy blocks an elbow strike.
Cornegy wants to break the clinch but can't.
Cornegy looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Matthews lands with a left to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Cornegy tries to circle away but Matthews has him pinned against the cage.
Nice elbow from Matthews.
Matthews prevents Cornegy from breaking the clinch.

Cornegy escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Matthews throws a body punch but Cornegy moves out of range.

Matthews clinches.
A nice right hand lands inside from Matthews.
Matthews looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Matthews is stalling here.
Cornegy blocks the elbow strike.
Cornegy is trying to break free.
Matthews misses with the head strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cornegy dodges an elbow strike from Matthews.
Matthews lands a hook to the side of the head.
Cornegy looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Cornegy blocks an elbow strike.
Cornegy has had enough of the clinch but Matthews keeps him there for the moment.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Matthews.
Cornegy can't break the clinch.
Matthews's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Matthews working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Matthews lands an elbow just above Cornegy 's eye.

It looks like James Cornegy has been cut.
Cornegy wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Matthews gets through Cornegy's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

Cornegy breaks the clinch.
Cornegy keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Matthews uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Cornegy.
Matthews takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
A looping hook to the body misses from Matthews. Cornegy does a little dance to reset his feet.
Cornegy on the wrong end of a nice hook.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Matthews swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Cornegy throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

Cornegy tries to keep at a distance but Matthews has taken the fight into the clinch.
Matthews lands a hook to the side of the head.

Cornegy is rocked!
Matthews gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Cornegy is still on wobbly legs! Can Matthews finish him?
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Matthews's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Matthews prevents Cornegy from breaking the clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Mike Matthews dominated that round.
The cut man is working on James Cornegy's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Matthews cracks Cornegy with a left hook right on the temple and Cornegy goes down! He's out! Referee! Stop the fight! Matthews lands a few more punches before the dopey ref steps in - hopefully Cornegy is OK!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Mike Matthews!
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