PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between James Toney (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Monroe Hutchens (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Monroe Hutchens looks lathargic as he enters the arena. Wake up son, you're about to have a fight!

Toney
vs
Hutchens

191 cm
17
204 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

200 cm
26
210 lbs
1 - 4 - 1

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Knockout power

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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, James Toney!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 4 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Monroe Hutchens!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Dmitry Maklakov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Toney fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Hutchens to the ground. Toney is now in Hutchens's guard.
Hutchens looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Toney lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Toney looking to sit in guard and control but Hutchens gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Hutchens won't allow Toney to get back to his feet.
Hutchens postures up.
Toney throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.
Hutchens is standing up over Toney. Toney looks to escape but Hutchens dives into side control.
Toney is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Toney is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked Hutchens off and has taken his back!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Toney scores with a nice shot to the head of his opponent. Hutchens is looking for a way out.
Toney is throwing strikes from the back here. Oh that last one was to the back of the head. Toney gets a warning from the referee. He throws another strike to the back of the head straight away though and the referee has seen enough. He breaks up the two fighters and stands them back up. Toney gets a real talking to here and is lucky not to get a point deducted. Toney apologises and we restart here on the feet.

Hutchens is rocked!

Toney closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Hutchens quickly recovers to half guard.
Hutchens is still in real trouble! Can Toney finish him?
Toney lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Hutchens quite badly. Hutchens pulls Toney in close trying to recover. Toney postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Hutchens on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Hutchens doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). James Toney!