PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lavonde Tyrone (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thom Epicosuarez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Thom Epicosuarez has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Tyrone
vs
Epicosuarez

186 cm
25
193 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

188 cm
21
191 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Intelligent

Excellent grappler
Solid Muay Thai
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Lavonde Tyrone!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Thom Epicosuarez!
The judges for this bout are Jorge Garcia, Columbo Gatti and Alyssa Summers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tyrone with a lazy takedown attempt
and Epicosuarez counters with a nice body shot.
Lavonde Tyrone seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Tyrone showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Epicosuarez.
Epicosuarez stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Epicosuarez wants it to stay on the feet.

Epicosuarez drops Tyrone with a left and a right! Oh, Tyrone is hurt - Epicosuarez dives into side control looking to finish!

Tyrone is rocked!

It looks like Lavonde Tyrone has been cut.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Epicosuarez takes advantage of some sloppy striking from Tyrone to pass into mount.
Tyrone wants to hold on but Epicosuarez pushes him away.
Epicosuarez postures up and throws a massive shot that knocks Tyrone out cold! Two more strikes to his unconscious opponent for good luck and this one is all over! Epicosuarez goes absolutely crazy with his corner! Wow, you can see how much that win means to him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Thom Epicosuarez!
Thom Epicosuarez spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.