PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Moosh LooLoo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ryan Hughes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

LooLoo
vs
Hughes

204 cm
30
269 lbs
11 - 6 - 0

185 cm
33
255 lbs
17 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Great elbows
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Moosh LooLoo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Ryan Hughes!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Yves DeLean and Gregory Folan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Hughes gets in close and instigates a clinch.
The referee is keeping an eye on LooLoo - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
LooLoo goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
LooLoo misses with a punch to the body.
Hughes lands an uppercut.
Hughes missing with knees to the body.
Hughes lands a good knee to the midsection. LooLoo won't want to take too many of those.
Hughes lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

It looks like Moosh LooLoo has been cut.
Hughes throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
LooLoo misses with a knee to the head.
Hughes lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
LooLoo wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Hughes has him pressed against the cage.
Hughes misses with a punch to the body.
Hughes blocks a punch to the side of the head.
A nice right hand lands inside from Hughes.
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!
LooLoo blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Hughes misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from LooLoo.
Hughes throws an elbow but it's blocked.

That's one minute gone in the round.
LooLoo avoids the elbow strike from Hughes, against the cage.
LooLoo avoids the elbow strike from Hughes, against the cage.
LooLoo is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
LooLoo blocks an elbow strike.
Hughes missing with knees to the body.
Hughes struggles to land a body shot inside as LooLoo controls his hands.
Hughes lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Hughes obliges.
LooLoo is breathing heavily.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hughes tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and LooLoo avoids it.
Hughes tries to land knees in the clinch but LooLoo avoids the damage to the body.

LooLoo breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Hughes takes the fight into the clinch.
LooLoo trying to control the position but instead, Hughes has worked for underhooks and has pushed LooLoo into the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hughes lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
A head punch blocked on the inside by LooLoo.
A body shot lands from Hughes.
Hughes scores with a nice hook to the head.
Hughes is leaning against LooLoo and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Hughes lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Hughes lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt LooLoo or not.
Hughes lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Nice body punch from Hughes.
LooLoo managing to block the knees to the body from Hughes.
A right handed body shot lands from Hughes.
Hughes working LooLoo over with knees to the body.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Hughes misses with an elbow strike.
Hughes misses with a body punch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Good body shot from Hughes.
Hughes stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
LooLoo avoiding damage as Hughes throws knees to the body.
Hughes lands a nice knee to the body.
Hughes landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Hughes working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Hughes lands a shoulder strike.
With the fighters up against the cage, Hughes throws an elbow but misses.
Hughes stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
A short uppercut from Hughes.
Hughes lands a good knee to the midsection. LooLoo won't want to take too many of those.
LooLoo avoiding damage as Hughes throws knees to the body.
Hughes lands with a light punch inside.
Hughes lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Nice body punch from Hughes - that landed with a thud.
Hughes scores with a shot to the side of LooLoo's head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hughes lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt LooLoo or not.
Hughes lands a body shot in the clinch.
Hughes unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Hughes works on LooLoo's body with a couple of short punches.
Hughes lands a good knee to the midsection. LooLoo won't want to take too many of those.
Hughes lands a nice shot to the body.
LooLoo dodges an elbow strike from Hughes.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Hughes tries to throw a body punch but LooLoo avoids it by throwing Hughes back against the cage.
Hughes tries a body shot but LooLoo blocks it.
Hughes tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and LooLoo avoids it.
Hughes tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
A body shot lands from Hughes.
Good body shot from Hughes.
Hughes lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the temple.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ryan Hughes dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Moosh LooLoo's cut.
That's time! LooLoo's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Hughes moves into the clinch successfully.
Hughes tried to land a shot to the body but connects with LooLoo's elbow.
LooLoo works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
The step up in weight doesn't seem to be a problem for Hughes. He's performing admirably here against the bigger man.
LooLoo blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Hughes throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
A short left from Hughes.
A short body shot lands from Hughes as the two fighters clinch.
Hughes using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Hughes lands a body shot in the clinch.
Hughes lands with a right to the head.
Hughes lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Hughes has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Hughes lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Hughes stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Hughes misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from LooLoo.
Ryan Hughes seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Hughes presses LooLoo against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Hughes lands a nice elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hughes landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Hughes lands an elbow inside that LooLoo shrugs off.
LooLoo takes a shot to the head.
Hughes lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt LooLoo or not.
Hughes lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
LooLoo managing to block the knees to the body from Hughes.
Hughes presses LooLoo against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Hughes lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of LooLoo backwards.
LooLoo's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Hughes tries a body shot but LooLoo blocks it.
Hughes lands a body shot.
Hughes creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through LooLoo's defenses.
Hughes lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
LooLoo throws an elbow but it misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the temple.
Hughes lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Hughes scores with a shoulder strike.
Hughes lands a damaging elbow.
LooLoo misses with the head strike.
LooLoo has had enough of the clinch but Hughes keeps him there for the moment.
Hughes pushes LooLoo back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Hughes lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
LooLoo is trying to force a seperation but Hughes has the dominant position.
Hughes lands with a right to the head.
Hughes trying to land knees to the body.
Hughes lands an elbow just above LooLoo 's eye.
Hughes lands an elbow just above LooLoo 's eye.
A short right from Hughes.
A shot in the inside from Hughes.
Hughes is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. LooLoo is defending well for now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Hughes.
Hughes lands a hook to the side of the head.
A hook to the body from Hughes.
LooLoo on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Hughes gets through LooLoo's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Hughes misses with an elbow over the top.
LooLoo blocks an elbow strike.
Hughes scores a nice knee to the body.
Hughes lands a nice shot to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hughes lands a damaging elbow.
Hughes lands a nice elbow.
Hughes scores with a shoulder strike.
Hughes scores with a hook to the body.
Hughes creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through LooLoo's defenses.
Hughes scores with a shot to the side of LooLoo's head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
LooLoo tries to circle away but Hughes has him pinned against the cage.
Hughes lands an elbow that stopped LooLoo in his tracks for a moment.
Hughes lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
LooLoo tries to throw a body punch but Hughes avoids it by throwing LooLoo back against the cage.
Hughes lands an elbow inside.
Hughes scores with an uppercut up the middle.
LooLoo is trying to stall.
Hughes scores with a nice hook to the head.
A right hook to the body lands for Hughes.
Hughes misses with an elbow strike.
LooLoo wants to stall.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
LooLoo blocks an elbow strike from Hughes.
Hughes softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Hughes scores with an uppercut up the middle.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ryan Hughes showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Moosh LooLoo's cut.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

Hughes rushes LooLoo and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Hughes lands a body shot.
Hughes pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Hughes lands with a short shot to the head.
LooLoo tries to work over Hughes's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Hughes presses LooLoo against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Hughes throws an elbow but it misses.
Hughes misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from LooLoo.
Hughes works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Hughes crunches a lovely knee into LooLoo's ribcage.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hughes goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Nice elbow from Hughes.
Hughes missing with knees to the body.
Hughes lands an elbow inside that LooLoo shrugs off.

Moosh LooLoo's cut is getting worse.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the temple.
LooLoo blocks a body shot from Hughes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hughes lands a body shot in the clinch.
Hughes pushes off an throws an elbow but LooLoo leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Hughes creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Hughes misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Hughes lands a nice shot to the body.
Hughes is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Hughes works on LooLoo's body with a couple of short punches.
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!
Hughes tries to land knees in the clinch but LooLoo avoids the damage to the body.
Knees in the clinch landing for Hughes.
Hughes scores with a nice hook to the head.
LooLoo takes a knee to the side of the body.
A nice right hand lands inside from Hughes.
Hughes lands a body shot in the clinch.
Still in the clinch, Hughes scores with a nice short uppercut.
Hughes digs a right hand underneath LooLoo's ribcage. LooLoo let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Moosh LooLoo has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hughes creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through LooLoo's defenses.
Hughes is working LooLoo over against the cage.
Hughes lands a nice uppercut.
Hughes digs a right hand into LooLoo's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on LooLoo's gas tank.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the temple.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Hughes can't find room to land a body shot as LooLoo controls the action.
Hughes is leaning against LooLoo and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Hughes obliges.
Hughes managing to block the knees to the body from LooLoo.
Hughes lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of LooLoo backwards.
Nice elbow from Hughes.
Hughes lands a knee to the body.
Hughes is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Hughes unloads a knee to the mid-section. LooLoo lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hughes throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Hughes lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Hughes lands a nice elbow.
Hughes creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through LooLoo's defenses.

Moosh LooLoo's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Hughes gets through LooLoo's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Hughes makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Hughes looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Hughes unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Hughes misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from LooLoo.
LooLoo prevents a body shot from Hughes.
LooLoo managing to block the knees to the body from Hughes.
Hughes gets through LooLoo's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Hughes works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Hughes throws an elbow but it misses.
Hughes softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hughes lands a hook that snaps the head of LooLoo backwards.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Hughes crunches a lovely knee into LooLoo's ribcage.
Hughes using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Hughes pushes LooLoo back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Nice elbow from Hughes.
Hughes pushes LooLoo back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Hughes.
Hughes lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Hughes gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Hughes lands a body shot in the clinch.
Hughes lands a nice knee to the body.
LooLoo takes an elbow to the temple.
Ryan Hughes is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Hughes works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Hughes lands a nice elbow.
LooLoo pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Hughes.

And that's the end of the fight!
Ryan Hughes comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Hughes has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Elvis Blanc scores the fight 24:30
Judge Yves DeLean scores the fight 24:30
Judge Gregory Folan scores the fight 24:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Ryan Hughes!
Ryan Hughes really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Global Nutritional (Q159) 90% ROR on Laundry logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.