PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between John Palmer (ranked 24722 p4p, 586 weight class) and Long Wang (ranked 5548 p4p, 501 weight class). The key to victory for John Palmer has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Palmer
vs
Wang

188 cm
18
200 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

190 cm
18
211 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Solid chin

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 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, John Palmer!
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, Long Wang!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Tiny Johnson and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Wang getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
Palmer jabbing away but nothing is landing.

Wang drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
Palmer knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Wang on the ground.
Palmer dodges the ground and pound from Wang.
Wang misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Wang working the ground and pound but Palmer is defending the strikes.
Wang controlling the position from side mount.

Wang tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Wang has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
The referee asks Wang politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Wang prefers to stall for the moment though.
Wang has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wang misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Wang in side control, throwing shots but Palmer defends.
Wang lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Palmer down.
Wang wants to lay and pray for a moment but Palmer keeps working.
Palmer gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
Wang misses with a head shot.
Wang with the ground and pound from mount.
Wang lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Wang raining down shots from the mount!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wang breaks from Palmer's wrist control and lands an elbow.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Wang landing punches.
Wang putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Wang is landing with some decent strikes but Palmer is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

Palmer is rocked!
Oooh a big shot lands for Wang! Palmer is out! The ref dives in to save him from more punishment!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Long Wang!