PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between John Bailey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Simon Pegg (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bailey comes to the cage accompanied by The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men. John Bailey could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Simon Pegg's chin.

Bailey
vs
Pegg

185 cm
25
213 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

184 cm
33
206 lbs
13 - 5 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
KO power

Excellent grappler
Lethal high kicks
Good gas tank

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Bailey!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Simon Pegg!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Chris Downing and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bailey throws an off balance right hand
enabling Pegg to counter with a crisp jab.

It looks like John Bailey has been cut.

Pegg closes the distance and pushes Bailey back into the cage.
Pegg is working Bailey over against the cage.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Pegg creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
I was talking to Bailey's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
A head punch on the inside from Bailey fails to land.
Pegg lands an uppercut.
Pegg lands a nice uppercut.
Bailey has a couple of punches blocked by Pegg.
Bailey's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Bailey tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Bailey tries to throw a body punch but Pegg avoids it by throwing Bailey back against the cage.
Bailey misses with the head strike.
Pegg lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Pegg blocks a punch to the side of the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Bailey misses with a hook from the clinch.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Pegg creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A nice left hand lands by Pegg.
Pegg is pushing Bailey up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Bailey can't find room to land a body shot as Pegg controls the action.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pegg throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Pegg lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Pegg blocks a body shot from Bailey.
Bailey tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

Pegg lands an uppercut that drops Bailey! Pegg follows him to the canvas looking to finish.

Bailey is rocked!
Pegg staying calm.
Oh Bailey is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Bailey is putting a lot of effort into getting back to his feet here.

Bailey is wriggling around trying to escape but Pegg has hooked up a rear naked choke! Is it over??? Is it... you're damn right it is! Bailey taps out and Pegg picks up the big win! Great work there by Pegg!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Simon Pegg!
Simon Pegg bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.