PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Chong Starbowski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thor Thunder (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Starbowski comes to the cage accompanied by Trad Thai Music.. Thor Thunder told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

Starbowski
vs
Thunder

175 cm
18
179 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

180 cm
18
170 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Very confident

Soylent Green

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Chong Starbowski!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Thor Thunder!
The judges for this bout are Peter Branson, Michael Johnstone and Sandra Marshall.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Starbowski tries to clinch but Thunder moves out of range.

Thunder closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Starbowski's guard.
Thunder working some strikes from top position.
Starbowski knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Thunder on the ground.
Thunder stands up over Starbowski, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Thunder postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Thunder pushing down on Starbowski's thigh, trying to pass to half guard. He's managed it... Nice work.
Thunder throwing shots but Starbowski is blocking nicely.
Thunder winds up and cracks Starbowski with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Starbowski is in a tricky position. We've heard reports from his gym mates at Harambe Remembrance Hall that he's been drilling escapes, so let's see if he can get back to his feet.
Thunder uses his free foot to push down on Starbowski's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Starbowski.
Thunder putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Thunder lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Thunder lands a big shot there that rocks Starbowski but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Thunder with good strikes from the mount here!
Starbowski can't escape the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Thunder with the ground and pound from mount.
Thunder cracks Starbowski with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Thunder fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Thunder scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Starbowski?
Thunder looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
A nice elbow there by Thunder.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Starbowski tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Thunder is landing with some decent strikes but Starbowski is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Starbowski is writhing around trying to 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!
Thunder putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Thunder thowing shots but they're missing.
Thunder lands a big elbow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Thunder landing strikes, looking to finish!
Thunder breaks from Starbowski's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Thunder dominating with strikes here.

Starbowski is rocked!
Thunder lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Starbowski hang on?
Oh Starbowski is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Thunder postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Starbowski bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Thunder and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Thor Thunder!
The defeated Chong Starbowski had this to say: 'Thank '.