PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gerard Lafunete (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alex Brannigan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Brannigan has chosen QOTSA - 'You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire' as his entrance music. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Lafunete
vs
Brannigan

192 cm
23
213 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

170 cm
27
205 lbs
17 - 7 - 3

Good takedowns
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Heavy handed

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Gerard Lafunete!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 7 - 3, fighting out of London, Alex Brannigan!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, Richard Clark and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lafunete shoots for a double leg takedown but Brannigan sprawls well. He's pushed Lafunete's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Brannigan throws a body punch but Lafunete moves out of range.
Brannigan scores with a kick to the body.
Lafunete is trying hard to land a takedown here. Brannigan sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Nice sprawl there from Brannigan as Lafunete shoots in.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Gerard Lafunete. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Lafunete avoids the head kick by Brannigan.

Lafunete closes the distance and pushes Brannigan back into the cage.
Brannigan lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like Gerard Lafunete has been cut.
Lafunete using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Brannigan has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Lafunete has a couple of punches blocked by Brannigan.
A head punch on the inside from Lafunete fails to land.
Brannigan looking to throw knees to the head but Lafunete is blocking nicely.
Lafunete lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Brannigan tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Lafunete avoids it.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Brannigan.
Brannigan stalling the fight.
Brannigan tries to land knees in the clinch but Lafunete avoids the damage to the body.
Lafunete pushes Brannigan back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lafunete using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Brannigan has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Lafunete trying to control the position but instead, Brannigan has worked for underhooks and has pushed Lafunete into the cage.
Brannigan stalling.
Brannigan lands a good knee to the midsection. Lafunete won't want to take too many of those.
Lafunete throws a knee to the head but misses.
Lafunete is trying to maintain a safe position but Brannigan gets an underhook and turns Lafunete into the cage.
Lafunete misses with a hook from the clinch.
Lafunete blocks the elbow strike.
Brannigan lands a nice elbow.
Lafunete with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Stalling in the clinch from Brannigan.
Brannigan putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Lafunete in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Lafunete struggles to land a body shot inside as Brannigan controls his hands.
Nice elbow from Brannigan.
Lafunete avoids the elbow strike from Brannigan, against the cage.
Brannigan tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lafunete misses with some punches.
Lafunete blocks the elbow strike.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Brannigan throws an elbow but it misses.
Lafunete working aggressively here.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Lafunete blocks an elbow strike.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Brannigan tries to land a knee to the head but Lafunete blocks with his arms.
Lafunete dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Lafunete can't find room to land a body shot as Brannigan controls the action.
Lafunete goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Brannigan trying to land knees to the body.
Brannigan comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lafunete misses with a knee strike.
Brannigan lands a damaging elbow.
Lafunete working aggressively here.
Lafunete lands with a right to the head.
Lafunete lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Lafunete stalling in the clinch but Brannigan improves position.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Brannigan just misses with a elbow thrown towards Lafunete's brow.
Lafunete throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Brannigan blocks it with crossed arms.
Brannigan lands a damaging elbow.
Lafunete taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Lafunete goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Lafunete taking a breather.
Come on Lafunete - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Lafunete takes an elbow to the temple.

Gerard Lafunete's cut is getting worse.
Lafunete misses with a knee to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Lafunete misses with a hook from the clinch.
Brannigan trying to control the position but instead, Lafunete has worked for underhooks and has pushed Brannigan into the cage.
Brannigan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Lafunete's defenses.
Brannigan blocks a body shot from Lafunete.
Lafunete with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Lafunete tries to work over Brannigan's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Lafunete throws a punch but it's blocked by Brannigan.
Brannigan lands a nice elbow.

Gerard Lafunete's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Brannigan just leaning against Lafunete, taking a breather.
Brannigan putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Lafunete in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Brannigan pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Lafunete avoids a wild elbow strike from Brannigan.
Lafunete fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Lafunete avoiding damage as Brannigan throws knees to the body.
Brannigan is stalling here.
Brannigan crunches a lovely knee into Lafunete's ribcage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Alex Brannigan dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Gerard Lafunete's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Nice sprawl there from Brannigan as Lafunete shoots in.
Lafunete shoots in for a takedown but Brannigan shows good takedown defense.
Lafunete shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Brannigan but Brannigan pushes him off and we're back to square one.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Gerard Lafunete. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Lafunete chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Brannigan can pounce on him.
Lafunete misses with a takedown attempt
and Brannigan counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Brannigan misses with a low kick.
Gerard Lafunete is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

Brannigan closes the distance and clinches.
Brannigan working Lafunete over with knees to the body.
Brannigan misses with a knee to the head.
Lafunete tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Brannigan's elbow.
Lafunete trying to land knees to the body.
Brannigan gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Lafunete tries to work over Brannigan's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Lafunete managing to block the knees to the body from Brannigan.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Lafunete swings away with an uppercut that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Brannigan leaning against his opponent.
Brannigan misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Lafunete.
Lafunete scores a nice knee to the body.
Brannigan lands an elbow inside that Lafunete shrugs off.
Lafunete is trying to maintain a safe position but Brannigan gets an underhook and turns Lafunete into the cage.
Brannigan looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Lafunete avoids a wild elbow strike from Brannigan.
Lafunete softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Brannigan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Lafunete misses with a punch to the body.
Brannigan displaying some good clinch control by pressing Lafunete up against the cage.
Lafunete manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Brannigan looking to stall.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Brannigan gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Brannigan lands a nice elbow.

Jeez, Gerard Lafunete's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Gerard Lafunete's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Alex Brannigan!