PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mr Orange (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ace Espinoza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Espinoza has chosen krolithika as his entrance music. This should be a great matchup!

Orange
vs
Espinoza

190 cm
23
214 lbs
5 - 1 - 1

193 cm
26
220 lbs
9 - 9 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
Granite chin

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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 5 - 1 - 1, fighting out of London, Mr Orange!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 9 - 1, fighting out of London, Ace Espinoza!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Daniel Blasius and Patrick Alders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Espinoza tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Espinoza keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Espinoza defending well as Orange loads up on a big left hand.
Orange throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
A clash of legs there as Espinoza blocks the low kick.
Espinoza ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Orange throws a looping overhand right but Espinoza ducks down to avoid it.
Espinoza misses with a jab, cross combination.
Orange closes the distance looking to clinch
and Espinoza counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Orange misses with a hook to the body

and Espinoza moves into the clinch.
Orange is trying to push Espinoza away but Espinoza has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Espinoza tries to land a knee to the head but Orange blocks with his arms.

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

Orange closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Espinoza did well to prevent Orange getting side control.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Espinoza tries to get to full guard but Orange has control of the leg.
Espinoza wants to control but Orange is keeping busy.
Espinoza is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.

Espinoza looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Orange working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Espinoza is trying to maintain the position but Orange is very close to passing his half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Orange winds up and cracks Espinoza with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Orange is thwarting Espinoza's attempts to control the position.
Orange uses his free foot to push down on Espinoza's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Espinoza.
Espinoza is in a horrible position here. Orange smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Orange connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Orange cracks Espinoza with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

It looks like Ace Espinoza has been cut.
Orange in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

That has opened up Ace Espinoza's cut even more.
Espinoza is trying to escape the mount.
Orange landing strikes from the mount.

The cut above Ace Espinoza's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
The referee warns Espinoza that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

Ace Espinoza's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Mr Orange!