PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Saintly Fish (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matt Couture (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Fish
vs
Couture

180 cm
24
205 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

187 cm
26
220 lbs
8 - 1 - 1

Good wrestling
Brawler
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

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 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Saintly Fish!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 1 - 1, fighting out of The Island, Matt Couture!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, Daniel Franklin and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fish misses with a takedown
letting Couture counter with a right hand.
Couture lands a jab to the head.
Saintly Fish seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Couture fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Fish on the side of the head.
Fish fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Couture throws out a counter right but Fish avoids it with no problem.
Fish with a lazy takedown attempt
enabling Couture to counter with a crisp jab.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Saintly Fish. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Fish avoids the head kick by Couture.
Fish has his takedown stuffed
letting Couture counter with a right hand.
Fish with a poor takedown

and Couture counters with a nice right hand that sends Fish toppling to the canvas! Fish scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Couture finish him?!

Fish is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Couture stuffs the takedown attempt from Fish. Fish gets slowly back to his feet.
A nice side step and Couture releases a counter shot to the body, but it doesn't find it's home.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fish misses with a takedown attempt
and Couture counters with a straight punch to the midsection.

Couture lands a big right hand that sends Fish crashing to the mat! Couture stays standing though and waves Fish back to his feet!
Oh Fish is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Fish leaves his chin hanging out and Couture seizes the opportunity with an uppercut! Fish crumbles to the floor in a heap! The referee steps in and tends to the downed fighter! What a knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Matt Couture!
Matt Couture was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.