PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Bill Beukeboom (ranked 1371 p4p, 184 weight class) and Gordon Harper (ranked 3865 p4p, 432 weight class). Fingers crossed for an exciting fight - I'm sure both fighters are looking for a nice under the table bonus!

Beukeboom
vs
Harper

185 cm
22
194 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

182 cm
26
190 lbs
4 - 7 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Knockout power

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 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Bill Beukeboom!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 7 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Gordon Harper!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Bart Greer and Santiago Holmes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Harper throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Harper stuns Beukeboom with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Harper has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Harper tries to clinch up but Beukeboom circles away and keeps his distance.
Beukeboom wants to take advantage of his opponent's missed offense by moving into the clinch.
Harper throws a body shot but no joy.

Beukeboom has managed to clinch.
A shot in the inside from Beukeboom.
Beukeboom makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Beukeboom lands a right hand.
I was talking to Beukeboom's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Beukeboom struggles to land a body shot inside as Harper controls his hands.
Harper throws a head punch that misses.
Beukeboom goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Harper lands a hook to the side of the head.
Beukeboom throws a head punch that misses.
Nice body punch from Beukeboom.
Harper can't find room to land a body shot as Beukeboom controls the action.
Beukeboom misses with the head strike.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Beukeboom fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Beukeboom digs a right hand into Harper's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Harper's gas tank.
Harper prevents a body shot from Beukeboom.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Harper.
Nice body punch from Harper - that landed with a thud.
Harper takes a shot to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Beukeboom misses with a punch on the inside.
Harper swings wildly with an uppercut but Beukeboom uses good head movement to avoid it.
Beukeboom swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Harper prevents a body shot from Beukeboom.
Beukeboom softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Harper softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Harper blocks a body shot from Beukeboom.
Harper throws a punch but it's blocked by Beukeboom.
Beukeboom gets through Harper's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Harper misses with the head strike.
Harper doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Beukeboom blocking some punches.
Harper blocking some punches.
Harper throws a punch but it's blocked by Beukeboom.
Harper misses with the head strike.
Beukeboom tries a body shot but Harper blocks it.
Beukeboom swings wildly with an uppercut but Harper uses good head movement to avoid it.
Beukeboom misses with a hook to the ribs.
A short uppercut from Beukeboom.
Harper lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Beukeboom or not.
Beukeboom fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Harper throws a punch but it's blocked by Beukeboom.
Harper lands a body shot.
Beukeboom blocks an uppercut.
Harper swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Harper blocking some punches.
Harper throws a punch but it's blocked by Beukeboom.
Harper has a couple of punches blocked by Beukeboom.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Beukeboom.
Harper throws a punch but it's blocked by Beukeboom.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Harper.
Beukeboom blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Harper working aggressively here.

Beukeboom drops Harper onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Harper is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!

Harper is rocked!
Beukeboom swings wildly with an uppercut but Harper uses good head movement to avoid it.
Harper is still on wobbly legs! Can Beukeboom finish him?
Harper blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Beukeboom blocks an uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Beukeboom fails to land.
Harper blocks an uppercut.
Harper has a couple of punches blocked by Beukeboom.
Beukeboom pushes Harper against the cage. Beukeboom is working some dirty boxing. Beukeboom pushes off with a quick right hook! Harper goes down! Harper tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Beukeboom moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Bill Beukeboom!