PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Konner McKregor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Samak Tiyapairat (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tiyapairat has chosen Ram Muay as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

McKregor
vs
Tiyapairat

182 cm
22
160 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

174 cm
48
166 lbs
36 - 31 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Dangerous knees
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Konner McKregor!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 36 - 31 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Samak Tiyapairat!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Chris Downing and Cecil Peabody.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

McKregor clinches up against the cage.
McKregor lands with a short shot to the head.

It looks like Samak Tiyapairat has been cut.
Tiyapairat looking to throw knees to the head but McKregor is blocking nicely.
McKregor misses with a punch to the body.
McKregor blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Our sources have told us that McKregor has been working on his elbows in the gym.
McKregor misses with a short punch on the inside.
McKregor gets through Tiyapairat's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
McKregor lands a body punch.
Knees to the body from McKregor.
McKregor digs a right hand underneath Tiyapairat's ribcage. Tiyapairat let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Tiyapairat tries to land knees in the clinch but McKregor avoids the damage to the body.
McKregor swings away with an uppercut that misses.
McKregor working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
McKregor pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, McKregor just misses with a elbow thrown towards Tiyapairat's brow.
McKregor tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Tiyapairat told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
McKregor swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Tiyapairat lands an elbow that stopped McKregor in his tracks for a moment.
McKregor throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Tiyapairat blocks it with crossed arms.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Tiyapairat.
Tiyapairat is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. McKregor is defending well for now.
Tiyapairat with an attempt at a knee that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McKregor misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Tiyapairat.
Tiyapairat working McKregor over with knees to the body.
McKregor takes a knee right on the jaw!
Tiyapairat prevents a body shot from McKregor.
Tiyapairat takes a shot to the head.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Tiyapairat obliges.
Tiyapairat blocks a body shot from McKregor.
Tiyapairat scores with a knee to the head.
McKregor scores with a knee to the head.
Tiyapairat taking a breather.
McKregor lands with a right to the head.
Tiyapairat lands a good knee to the midsection. McKregor won't want to take too many of those.
McKregor scores with a shoulder strike.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
McKregor lands a right hand.
Tiyapairat using the Thai plumb to throw knees but McKregor has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, McKregor just misses with a elbow thrown towards Tiyapairat's brow.
Tiyapairat crunches a lovely knee into McKregor's ribcage.
McKregor blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tiyapairat tries to land knees in the clinch but McKregor avoids the damage to the body.
Tiyapairat blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Tiyapairat takes a shot to the head.
McKregor throws a punch but it's blocked by Tiyapairat.
McKregor trying to land knees to the body.
McKregor swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Tiyapairat blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
McKregor throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
McKregor avoiding damage as Tiyapairat throws knees to the body.
McKregor creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Tiyapairat lands a nice knee to the body.
McKregor blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
McKregor avoiding damage as Tiyapairat throws knees to the body.
Tiyapairat on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Tiyapairat connects with a knee to the head.
Tiyapairat unloads a knee to the mid-section. McKregor lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Tiyapairat with a knee to the head.
McKregor lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
McKregor creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
McKregor misses with a short punch on the inside.
Tiyapairat wants to break free but McKregor has control.
A left hand lands to the body for Tiyapairat.
Tiyapairat pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
McKregor on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Tiyapairat obliges.
A short right hand to the side of the head by McKregor.
McKregor throws a head punch that misses.
Tiyapairat lands with a left to the head.
McKregor misses with a punch on the inside.
McKregor misses with a hook from the clinch.
McKregor tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
McKregor scores with a shot to the side of Tiyapairat's head.
Tiyapairat tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and McKregor avoids it.
Tiyapairat on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
McKregor using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Tiyapairat has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tiyapairat throws a punch but it's blocked by McKregor.
McKregor misses with a hook from the clinch.
McKregor tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
McKregor lands an uppercut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
McKregor misses with a hook to the ribs.
McKregor lands a shoulder strike.
McKregor looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Tiyapairat blocks an elbow strike from McKregor.
Tiyapairat tries to land knees in the clinch but McKregor avoids the damage to the body.
McKregor lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Tiyapairat using the Thai plumb to throw knees but McKregor has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

Tiyapairat breaks from the clinch.
Tiyapairat scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Tiyapairat misses with a jab, cross combination.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Tiyapairat avoids a punch combination nicely.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Tiyapairat! But no joy.

Tiyapairat moves into the clinch successfully.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Konner McKregor dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Samak Tiyapairat's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

McKregor clinches.
Tiyapairat utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.

McKregor breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Tiyapairat takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.

McKregor gets a clinch.
Tiyapairat misses with a hook to the ribs.
McKregor lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Tiyapairat looking to throw knees to the head but McKregor is blocking nicely.
Tiyapairat tries to throw a body punch but McKregor avoids it by throwing Tiyapairat back against the cage.
McKregor working aggressively here.
Tiyapairat lands with a light punch inside.
McKregor fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
McKregor working aggressively here.
Tiyapairat managing to block the knees to the body from McKregor.
Tiyapairat landing knees to the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for McKregor.
Tiyapairat blocks an uppercut.
McKregor with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McKregor lands a knee to the head.
McKregor throws an elbow that misses.
Tiyapairat lands a nice knee to the body.
McKregor throws a head punch that misses.
Tiyapairat with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

Tiyapairat manages to break the clinch.

McKregor has taken the fight to the clinch.
Tiyapairat tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Tiyapairat misses with a knee strike.
McKregor tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Tiyapairat avoids it.
McKregor throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Tiyapairat blocks a punch to the side of the head.
McKregor working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Tiyapairat tries a body shot but McKregor blocks it.
McKregor lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
McKregor makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Tiyapairat tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A knee to the head by McKregor.

Tiyapairat is rocked!
McKregor lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Tiyapairat to his knees! McKregor keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:14 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Konner McKregor!