PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Wesley Mathews (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Phil Nurse (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Nurse's choice of entrance music: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Phil Nurse has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Mathews
vs
Nurse

185 cm
28
183 lbs
6 - 6 - 0

180 cm
29
175 lbs
9 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Very quick

Decent wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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 6 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Wesley Mathews!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Phil Nurse!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Dmitry Maklakov and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mathews walks into a straight right hand from Nurse.
Mathews shoots in and drives through. Nurse sprawls well.
Mathews fails with a takedown attempt.
Mathews changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Nurse tries to avoid it but Mathews manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Nurse to the ground. Nurse escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Wesley Mathews. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Mathews takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.

Nurse fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Mathews, pushing him back against the cage.
Nurse throws a knee to the head but misses.
Nurse looking to throw knees to the head but Mathews is blocking nicely.
Mathews blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Nurse lands a right hand that snaps the head of Mathews backwards.
Mathews blocks the elbow strike.
Mathews goes for a takedown attempt but Nurse pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
Nurse connects with a crisp jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mathews looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Nurse is fending him off so far but Mathews persists. Nope, Nurse circles away and we're back to standing.

Nurse moves into the clinch.
Mathews is looking for a takedown.
Mathews is working on a leg, looking for a takedown but Nurse is defending well.
Nurse lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Wesley Mathews has been cut.
Mathews drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Nurse gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Mathews blocks an elbow strike from Nurse.
Mathews takes a knee right on the jaw!
Nurse with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nurse looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Nurse lands an elbow that stopped Mathews in his tracks for a moment.
Nurse misses with a knee to the head.
Nurse lands an elbow inside that Mathews shrugs off.
Nurse tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Mathews managing to block the knees to the body from Nurse.
Nurse throws an elbow that misses.
A shot in the inside from Nurse.

Mathews is rocked!
Nurse lands an elbow inside.
Oh Mathews is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Nurse lands a good knee to the midsection. Mathews won't want to take too many of those.
Mathews takes an elbow to the forehead.
Nurse has the Thai clinch. He lands a big knee to the head that stumbles Mathews - he's in trouble! Another big knee to the head from Nurse, and another! Mathews is out on his feet - the ref jumps in to save him and ends the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Phil Nurse!
Phil Nurse decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.