PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Stan Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cole River (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). River has chosen Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou as his entrance music. Cole River has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Johnson
vs
River

180 cm
23
180 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

188 cm
22
175 lbs
10 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very strong

Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

5th Round Clothing
Just Fight

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Stan Johnson!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Cole River!
The judges for this bout are Jeff Smith, Roger Salmon and Ryoma Takatsuka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Johnson misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Johnson lands with a kick to the temple. River shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
River dodges the punch combination from Johnson.
Johnson fails with the takedown
and River connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
River moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Johnson misses with a body shot.
Johnson misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
River with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Johnson misses the jab.
Johnson misses with the combination.
A solid leg kick lands there for River.
Johnson misses with an uppercut
and River counters with an outside leg kick.
River lands a right hook to the body.
River scores with a leg kick.
River throws a nice outside leg kick.
Johnson is breathing heavily.
Johnson misses the jab.
River with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.

That's one minute gone in the round.
River lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Johnson shoots in for a takedown but River shows good takedown defense.
River cracks the inside of Johnson's front leg.
Johnson is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Johnson on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by River.
River scores with a leg kick.
River feints a jab promting Johnson to slip. River then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Johnson slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
Cole River is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Nice cross by River.

River has Johnson up against the cage in a clinch.
River blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
River is stalling here.
River blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
River using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.

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

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johnson takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
River connects with the punch.
Good leg kick by River there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
River scores with a hook to the body. Johnson takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
River throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
River lands a front kick.
Jab, jab by River - just one landing.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Johnson crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from River - the referee stops the clock and Johnson gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says River. Johnson manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
River lands a leg kick that knocks Johnson off balance momentarily.
River feints and then cracks Johnson's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Johnson down.
Stan Johnson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A nice inside leg kick there by River. That's going to slow Johnson down.
River is looking to slow Johnson down with leg kicks.
Johnson takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
River thows a body kick. Johnson tries to catch it but that hurt him.

River clinches up with Johnson and pushes him back against the cage.
Johnson takes an elbow to the temple.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson tries for a takedown. No joy.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Stan Johnson. That's going to take a lot out of him.

River breaks from the clinch.
River connects with a leg kick. Johnson looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from River, right into the meat.
River bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
River dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
River scores with a kick to the midsection.
River feints a jab promting Johnson to slip. River then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Johnson slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
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!
River misses with a head kick.
Johnson misses with the body kick
and River counters with a thumping low kick.
River connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Johnson fails with a takedown attempt.
River checks a leg kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Johnson on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
River connects with a solid leg kick.
Both fighters circling slowly here as the pace drops. Hopefully one of them does someth.. OOOHHHH!!!! River throws an absolute beast of a head kick! Johnson is done! He's out cold, twisted and contorted up against the cage! Wow!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Cole River!
Cole River is the new welterweight champion!
Post fight, Cole River stared into the camera and said 'Thanks for bringing me in, hope the new boss liked the show. Who's next? '.