PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Flex Nuisance (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Corey Birthday (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Nuisance comes to the cage accompanied by High Hopes by Frank Sinatra. Birthday comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Happy Birthday Mr President kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Nuisance
vs
Birthday

197 cm
28
265 lbs
9 - 2 - 0

170 cm
22
280 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very quick

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Flex Nuisance!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Corey Birthday!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Birthday scores with a decent looking hook.

It looks like Flex Nuisance has been cut.
Nuisance jabs Birthday right on the nose. Birthday blinks but takes it well.
Birthday misses with an uppercut. Nuisance saw that one coming.

Birthday has Nuisance up against the cage in a clinch.
Nuisance tries a body shot but Birthday blocks it.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Birthday scores with a shoulder strike.
Nuisance blocking some punches.
Birthday tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Nuisance avoids it.
Birthday misses with a punch to the body.
Nuisance blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Birthday stalling in the clinch but Nuisance improves position.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Nuisance creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.

It looks like Corey Birthday has been cut.
Birthday tries to work over Nuisance's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Birthday gets through Nuisance's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Birthday unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Birthday lands a good knee to the midsection. Nuisance won't want to take too many of those.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Birthday struggles to land a body shot inside as Nuisance controls his hands.
Nuisance working aggressively here.
Nuisance is trying to stall.
Nuisance throws a head punch that misses.
The referee calls for Birthday to work.
Birthday digs a right hand into Nuisance's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Nuisance's gas tank.
Nuisance is breathing heavily.
Birthday blocks a punch to the side of the head.

Birthday jumps guard.
Birthday has momentary wrist control but Nuisance slips an elbow through the middle.
Nuisance preventing the sweep.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Birthday holds on and takes a little breather.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Birthday has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Nuisance can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Birthday looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Nuisance passes into half guard.
Birthday regains full guard, whilst avoiding punches from Nuisance.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Birthday holds on and takes a little breather.

Birthday is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Nuisance defends well.

Birthday has his foot on Nuisance's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Nuisance works his way back into a safe position though.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Birthday keeping moving, preventing Nuisance from controlling successfully.

Birthday escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Nuisance gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.

Nuisance avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Nuisance wants to control from the top but Birthday keeps moving.
Nuisance pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Birthday is keeping the position for now.

Nuisance avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Birthday working for a triangle but Nuisance defends it easily.
Birthday is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Nuisance tries to free his leg and advance position but Birthday is retaining full guard.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Birthday is on top in guard.
Birthday trying to control but Nuisance is working from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Corey Birthday dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Nuisance misses with a body shot.
Birthday takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.

Nuisance tries to keep at a distance but Birthday has taken the fight into the clinch.
Birthday lands a knee to the body.
Nuisance goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Nuisance struggles to land a body shot inside as Birthday controls his hands.
Birthday content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Birthday trying to land knees to the body.
Birthday tries a body shot but Nuisance blocks it.
Nuisance misses with the head strike.
Birthday scores with a hook to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Birthday stalling.

Nuisance breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nuisance thows a body shot but no joy.
Nuisance misses with a left hand
and Birthday counters with a slapping leg kick.
The crowd cheers as Nuisance lands an impressive looking overhand right. Birthday doesn't seem phased though.
Birthday throws a front kick that sends Nuisance stumbling back into the cage.
Nuisance moves out of range as Birthday throws a body kick.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Birthday, right into the meat.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Birthday scores with a push kick.
Birthday misses with a few strikes there.
Birthday cracks the inside of Nuisance's front leg.
Birthday looks to score with a jab to the body but Nuisance is just out of range.
Nuisance misses the jab.
Birthday throws a leg kick which misses Nuisance's front leg but catches the back leg as Nuisance tries to avoid it.
Birthday lands with a thumping leg kick.
Birthday scores with a kick to the midsection.
Birthday connects with a leg kick. Nuisance looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Birthday lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Birthday works Nuisance's body with a nice hook.
Birthday scores with a leg kick.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Birthday.
Birthday connects with a body shot.
Birthday keeps Nuisance at a distance using the push kick.
A slapping leg kick lands for Birthday.
Birthday throws a quick inside leg kick.
Birthday is looking to clinch but Nuisance is avoiding it.
Nuisance is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
A chopping leg kick lands by Birthday.
Crunch! Birthday slams his shin into Nuisance's torso.
Birthday is looking to clinch.
Birthday lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Birthday, right into the meat.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Birthday lands with a kick to the ribs.
Nice body kick from Birthday.
A nice leg kick lands there from Birthday.
Birthday feints and then cracks Nuisance's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Nuisance down.
The crowd cheers as Birthday lands an impressive looking overhand right. Nuisance doesn't seem phased though.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Birthday has managed to clinch.
Nuisance will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.

Birthday successfully pulls guard.

Birthday escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Nuisance gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Birthday trying to keep a closed guard but Nuisance is proving a slippery customer.

Birthday has his foot on Nuisance's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Nuisance works his way back into a safe position though.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Birthday working a defensive guard here.
Nuisance throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Birthday works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Birthday keeping moving, preventing Nuisance from controlling successfully.

Birthday looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Nuisance pushes down on Birthday's leg and manages to get into half guard.
The fighters are battling for position here. Birthday manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Corey Birthday showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Birthday throws a leg kick but Nuisance checks it.
Birthday lands a right hook to the body.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Nuisance.
Birthday throws a shot to the body.
Birthday thows a body shot but no joy.

Birthday scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Birthday is trying to control the action in half guard but Nuisance is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Nuisance tries to get to full guard but Birthday has control of the leg.
Birthday controlling the action here.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Birthday is looking to take a break and control but Nuisance is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Birthday missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Nuisance on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Nuisance tries to get out of the position.

Birthday in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Nuisance tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Birthday!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Corey Birthday!
Corey Birthday is the new heavyweight champion!
A victorious Corey Birthday thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.