PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jimi Hendrix (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Richmond (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jimi Hendrix has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Hendrix
vs
Richmond

198 cm
21
200 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

184 cm
28
190 lbs
7 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jimi Hendrix!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, James Richmond!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Chris Downing and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Richmond closes the distance and clinches.
Richmond avoiding damage as Hendrix throws knees to the body.
Richmond taking a breather.
Richmond wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Hendrix has him pressed against the cage.
Richmond tries to circle away but Hendrix has him pinned against the cage.
Good body shot from Richmond.
Hendrix throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Richmond blocks it with crossed arms.
Hendrix trying to stall but Richmond improves his position.
Hendrix with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
A frustrated look appears on Richmond's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Hendrix obliges.
Richmond misses with a hook from the clinch.
Richmond doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Hendrix avoiding damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Richmond avoiding damage as Hendrix throws knees to the body.
Richmond misses with some punches.
Richmond is trying to break the clinch but Hendrix has him pressed against the cage.
Richmond blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Richmond makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Richmond gets through Hendrix's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Richmond throws a head punch that misses.
Hendrix scores a nice knee to the body.
Richmond takes a knee right on the jaw!

It looks like James Richmond has been cut.
Richmond on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Richmond tries to break the clinch but Hendrix is controlling the position.
Richmond fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Hendrix missing with knees to the body.
Richmond taking a breather.
Hendrix with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hendrix misses with a knee strike.
Richmond is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
Hendrix lands a knee to the head.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Hendrix prevents Richmond from breaking the clinch.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hendrix lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Hendrix using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Richmond has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Richmond throws a punch but it's blocked by Hendrix.
Richmond is trying to stall.
Hendrix landing some nice looking knees to the body.

Richmond breaks the clinch.

Hendrix rushes Richmond and presses him up against the cage.
Hendrix with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Hendrix lands an elbow that stopped Richmond in his tracks for a moment.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Richmond swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hendrix blocks an uppercut.
Richmond misses with a hook from the clinch.
Richmond is trying to maintain a safe position but Hendrix gets an underhook and turns Richmond into the cage.
Hendrix misses with a knee strike.
Hendrix scores a nice knee to the body.
Hendrix tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Richmond tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Hendrix's elbow.
Hendrix blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Richmond lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Richmond has a couple of punches blocked by Hendrix.
Hendrix tries to land knees in the clinch but Richmond avoids the damage to the body.
Hendrix misses with a knee strike.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but Richmond blocks with his arms.
Hendrix using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Richmond has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Hendrix throws a knee to the head but misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nice body punch from Richmond.
Hendrix tries to land a knee to the head but Richmond blocks with his arms.
Richmond is looking to break free of the clinch but Hendrix has double underhooks.
Hendrix misses with a knee strike.
Hendrix blocking some punches.
Richmond wants to get back to striking at distance but Hendrix won't allow it.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Hendrix unloads a knee to the mid-section. Richmond lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Hendrix looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Hendrix is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Hendrix keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Richmond's efforts to push away.
Richmond scores with a hook to the body.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Richmond stalls.
Richmond wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Hendrix has him pressed against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jimi Hendrix dominated that round.
The cut man is working on James Richmond's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Richmond takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Richmond lands a nice hook to Hendrix's body. Hendrix takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Hendrix throws a push kick but Richmond slaps the foot to one side.
Richmond looks to score with a jab to the body but Hendrix is just out of range.
Richmond throws a body punch but Hendrix moves out of range.
Hendrix throws a nice head kick!

Hendrix moves into the clinch.
Richmond trying to control the position but instead, Hendrix has worked for underhooks and has pushed Richmond into the cage.
Hendrix lands with a short head shot on the inside.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Richmond is trying to force a seperation but Hendrix has the dominant position.
Hendrix with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Richmond lands a left hand.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Richmond.
Hendrix with a knee to the head.
Hendrix blocking some punches.
Hendrix looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Hendrix tries a knee to the head but Richmond blocks it.
A short body shot lands from Richmond as the two fighters clinch.
Hendrix missing with knees to the body.
Hendrix misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Richmond.
Jimi Hendrix has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Hendrix misses with an elbow over the top.
Hendrix using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Richmond has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Hendrix tries to land knees in the clinch but Richmond avoids the damage to the body.
Richmond lands a shoulder strike.
Hendrix throws an elbow but it's blocked.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Hendrix.
Hendrix is looking to control Richmond's arms but Richmond gets an underhook and turns him. Now Hendrix has his back to the cage.
Richmond goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hendrix trying to control the position but instead, Richmond has worked for underhooks and has pushed Hendrix into the cage.
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!
Richmond tries to throw a body punch but Hendrix avoids it by throwing Richmond back against the cage.
Hendrix misses with a knee to the head.
Richmond misses with a hook to the ribs.
Hendrix prevents Richmond from breaking the clinch.
Hendrix with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Richmond wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Hendrix tries a knee to the head but Richmond blocks it.
Hendrix using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Richmond has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Hendrix with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Richmond wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Richmond breaks the clinch.
Hendrix throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Richmond's head.
Richmond scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hendrix tries to close the distance and clinch but Richmond swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Hendrix throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Hendrix looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Hendrix fails in his attempt to clinch.
Richmond fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Hendrix looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Hendrix avoids a punch combination nicely.
Richmond blocks a head kick by Hendrix.
Richmond avoids the head kick by Hendrix.
Hendrix fails with an attempt to clinch.
Richmond moves out of range of the strikes.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Richmond lands with a straight right. Hendrix didn't see that one coming.
Jimi Hendrix seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Hendrix fails with an attempt to clinch.
Jimi Hendrix is winning the standup battle so far.
Hendrix takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Hendrix on the wrong end of a nice hook.

Hendrix is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Richmond keeps the fight on the outside.
Nice uppercut there from Richmond.
Oh Hendrix is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Hendrix is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Richmond steps into range and unloads a brutal right left combo! Hendrix is out on his feet! Richmond sets himself and nearly takes Hendrix's head off with a straight right, sending him crashing to the mat! Wow, that was nasty... but awesome! Wooo!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). James Richmond!