PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bernard Saint (ranked 4589 p4p, 536 weight class) and Mike Quick (ranked 6075 p4p, 0 weight class). I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!

Saint
vs
Quick

179 cm
25
205 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

191 cm
25
219 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Bernard Saint!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mike Quick!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Gwen Towbar and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Saint avoids the head kick by Quick.
Quick misses with a straight left.

Saint drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Quick wants to get back to his feet but Saint is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Saint is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Saint lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Quick is looking to stand up but Saint isn't so interested in that idea.
Saint is in close to Quick's body, working some short punches and elbows.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Saint slips nicely into half guard.
Saint is nestled in close to Quick, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Saint landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Saint is taking a breather. Quick says something to him but it's hard to make out. Perhaps he's telling him to get on with it and actually do something.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Saint moves into full mount! Quick won't be happy about that!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
A nice elbow there by Saint.
Saint lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Saint could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Saint connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Quick wants to try and get back to his feet.
Quick really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Saint. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Saint controlling his opponent.
Saint lands a big elbow.
Saint takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Saint seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Quick for as long as he can get away with.
Saint connects with a couple of good shots from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Saint postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Quick looks a forlorn figure.
BOOM! Saint connects with a massive shot to the dome!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Saint raining down shots from the mount!
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Saint cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Saint looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Quick is really trying hard to get back to his feet.
Saint is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Quick can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Saint cracks Quick with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Saint takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Saint lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Saint is in the full mount, landing strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Saint landing shots from mount.
Saint controlling his opponent.
Quick in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Saint content just to control the position here.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Saint cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Saint lands a nice shot to the head.
Saint is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Quick can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Saint controlling the position easily from mount.
Saint continues to stall.
Saint with shots to the head and body - Quick looks very uncomfortable down there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Saint in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Saint lands a big shot there that rocks Quick but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Saint controlling the position easily from mount.
Saint is landing with some decent strikes but Quick is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Saint lands a big shot there that rocks Quick but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Saint looking to control and managing it successfully.
Saint scoring with strikes but Quick is staying in there.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Saint cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Saint has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Quick's face.
Quick is trying to stand.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bernard Saint dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Saint scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Quick is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Saint scores with a couple of nice shots.
Saint working over Quick with some ground and pound. Quick looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Saint is figuring out what he wants to do next.
Saint winds up and cracks Quick with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Saint lands with a punch from half guard.
Saint passes to full mount!
Saint punishing his opponent with strikes.
Saint unloading with bombs!
Quick in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Saint controlling the pace for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Saint scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Saint scoring with strikes but Quick is staying in there.
Quick is bucking up trying to escape but Saint cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Saint has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Quick's face.
Saint postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Quick looks a forlorn figure.
Saint scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Quick?
Saint lands with some strikes.
Saint with a couple of short strikes.
Saint working away from the top, dropping strikes.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Quick is in a horrible position here. Saint smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Quick wants to use the cage to get back to his feet here.
Saint lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Saint controlling from the full mount.
Quick is trying to get to the cage to help him get back to his feet.
Quick is using up a lot of energy trying to get back to his feet. Perhaps he should improve his position first.
Saint is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Quick can do to turn this around?
Saint cracks Quick with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Saint punishing his opponent with strikes.
Saint scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Saint lands a nice shot to the head.
The referee warns Quick that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Saint lands a couple of good shots and Quick has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
The referee is taking a good look at Quick as he is on the wrong end of some big shots from Saint!
Quick is being controlled on the ground here - he must escape this position otherwise surely the end is near.
Bernard Saint overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Saint has his opponent trapped and is landing shots. Not a good position for Quick.
Saint throwing damaging strikes from the back! Quick could be in trouble here!
Saint biding his time, controlling Quick.
Saint lands punches and elbows.
Quick covers up after that shot from Saint.
Saint lands a punch to the side of the head from the back.
I would not like to be Quick right now.
Saint lands an elbow to the side of the head.
A bit of a pause in the action here. Saint controlling the positon.
Saint has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Saint lands shots from the back.
Saint throwing damaging strikes from the back! Quick could be in trouble here!
Saint softening up his opponent with strikes here.
So, who will make the next big move? In this position it could be crucial.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Saint lands with a hammerfist to the side of Quick's head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bernard Saint dominated that second round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.

Saint feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Saint connects with a couple of short punches.
Saint throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Quick works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Saint postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Saint scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Saint connects with a couple of short punches.
Saint seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.
Quick wants to get back to his feet but he's too absorbed in his own little project and Saint manages to pass to side control.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Saint is nestled in close to Quick, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Saint looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Saint passes the guard and advances to mount!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Saint with the ground and pound from mount.
Saint unloading with bombs!
Saint controlling from the full mount.
Saint is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Quick can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Saint looking to control and managing it successfully.
Saint has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Quick's face.
Quick is in a horrible position here. Saint smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Saint content just to control the position here.
BOOM! Saint connects with a massive shot to the dome!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Saint with the ground and pound from mount.
Saint pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
The referee warns Quick that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Saint sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Saint lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Saint has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Quick's face.
Saint putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Saint looking to control and managing it successfully.
Quick trying desperately to get to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
BOOM! Saint connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Saint scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Saint lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Quick hang on?
Quick taking shots to the head.
Quick is in a horrible position here. Saint smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Saint tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Saint scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Quick?
Saint fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Saint breaks from Quick's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Saint landing strikes from the mount.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Saint landing strikes from the mount.
Saint sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Saint looking to finish Quick with some ground and pound. This is bad for Quick!
Quick takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Saint connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Saint takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
BOOM! Saint connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Mike Quick has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Saint working Quick over with strikes here.
Saint lands a big elbow.
Saint looking to finish Quick with some ground and pound. This is bad for Quick!
Saint putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Quick wants to get back to his feet.
Saint is landing with some decent strikes but Quick is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

And that's the end of the fight!
Bernard Saint showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Saint, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge George Francis scores the fight 30:24
Judge Gwen Towbar scores the fight 30:24
Judge Daniel Franklin scores the fight 30:24

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Bernard Saint!