PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Chad Nazareth (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michael Kelso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kelso has chosen That 70's Show Theme Music as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Michael Kelso has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Nazareth
vs
Kelso

180 cm
20
175 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
176 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

Crippler's Corner
TFP Graphics - Pit Inc

Ka-POW Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Chad Nazareth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Michael Kelso!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Bruno Hogan and Hugh Johnson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kelso tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Kelso tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Nazareth fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Nazareth keeps the fight on the outside.
Kelso misses with a straight left.
Jab, jab by Nazareth - just one landing.
Kelso misses with a double jab.
The fight stays on the outside here - Kelso looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Nazareth darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
Kelso tries to clinch up but Nazareth circles away and keeps his distance.
Kelso moves in looking to clinch but Nazareth pushes him off.
Kelso swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Kelso avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Kelso lands a two punch combo.

Nazareth shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Nazareth was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nazareth landing strikes from the mount and Kelso is in trouble!
Kelso is wriggling around trying to escape.
Nazareth is landing with some decent strikes but Kelso is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Kelso is squirming around, avoiding Nazareth's attempts to control the action.
Kelso really trying hard to get back to half guard here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nazareth with shots to the head and body - Kelso looks very uncomfortable down there.
Nazareth fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Nazareth looking to control and managing it successfully.
Kelso takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Kelso is wriggling around trying to escape.
Kelso is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Nazareth scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Kelso?
Kelso is in all sorts of trouble here.
Kelso really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Nazareth. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Nazareth has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Kelso's face.
Nazareth looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Kelso is looking to get to half guard.
Nazareth 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.
Nazareth blocks Kelso's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth with good strikes from the mount here!
Nazareth controlling his opponent.
Kelso is wriggling around trying to escape.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Nazareth cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Nazareth controlling from the full mount.
Nazareth scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Nazareth controlling his opponent.
Kelso working to try and regain half guard.
Kelso regains half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth passes to side control.
Kelso throwing some weak shots from the bottom that do no damage.
Nazareth landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Kelso tries to buck Nazareth off but Nazareth is having none of it.
Nazareth wants to lay and pray for a moment but Kelso keeps working.
Kelso is looking to regain half guard here but Nazareth keeps moving and retains side control.
Kelso looks gassed!
Nazareth cracks Kelso with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Kelso is trying to get back to half guard.
Nazareth controls the position.
Nazareth cracks Kelso with a big right hand but Kelso just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth lands an elbow.
Kelso tries to improve position but can't.
Nazareth is looking to take a break and control but Kelso is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Nazareth happy to just control the position for now.
Kelso is looking for a sweep.
Nazareth wants to lay and pray for a moment but Kelso keeps working.
Nazareth in side control lands a decent elbow.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Nazareth controlling the position.
Nazareth wants to control but Kelso is keeping him busy.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Chad Nazareth dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Kelso misses with a two punch combination.
Kelso tries to close the distance and clinch up but Nazareth swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Kelso tries to clinch up.
Kelso tries to close the distance and clinch up but Nazareth swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Nazareth swats away the attempt to clinch by Kelso.
Kelso looks to land a combination but Nazareth avoids it well.
Kelso lands a two punch combo.
Nazareth scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Kelso on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Kelso fails with an attempt to clinch.
Michael Kelso seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kelso tries to clinch but Nazareth moves out of range.
Kelso walks into a straight right hand from Nazareth.
Nazareth listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Kelso moves forwards but Nazareth connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Kelso doesn't manage to clinch there - Nazareth circles away.
Nazareth lands with a straight right. Kelso didn't see that one coming.
Kelso takes a jab right on the kisser.
Kelso is breathing heavily.
Kelso misses with an uppercut. Nazareth saw that one coming.
Nazareth just misses with a punch to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kelso looks to land a combination but Nazareth avoids it well.
Nazareth lands a with a good body shot.
Kelso tries to close the distance and clinch up but Nazareth swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Michael Kelso is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Nice body punch from Nazareth.
Nazareth moves into range and connects with a jab.
Nazareth cracks Kelso with an open hand slap.
Nazareth scores with a sloppy right hand. Kelso should have avoided that one.

Nazareth scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Chad Nazareth overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Nazareth cracks Kelso with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Nazareth in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Kelso takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Kelso takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
A lull in the action here as Nazareth stalls from top position.
Kelso misses with an elbow from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth passes to full mount! That's big trouble for Kelso!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Kelso throwing hammer fists to the chest of Nazareth. What's that going to do exactly?
Nazareth tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Nazareth lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Kelso is trying desperately to improve position.
Nazareth postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Kelso looks a forlorn figure.
Nazareth raining down shots from the mount!
Nazareth lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Nazareth lands with some strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Nazareth landing shots from mount.
Nazareth tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Nazareth looking to finish Kelso with some ground and pound. This is bad for Kelso!
Nazareth controlling from the full mount.
Kelso keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Nazareth scoring with strikes but Kelso is staying in there.
Nazareth working Kelso over with strikes here.
Nazareth wants to control the pace but Kelso is squirming around nicely.
BOOM! Nazareth connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Nazareth controlling from mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth dominating with strikes here.
Nazareth controlling from mount.
Kelso throwing hammer fists to the chest of Nazareth. What's that going to do exactly?
Nazareth looking to control and managing it successfully.
Nazareth with shots to the head and body - Kelso looks very uncomfortable down there.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Kelso tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Kelso flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Kelso throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Kelso is in a horrible position here. Nazareth smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Chad Nazareth dominated that second 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. The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!

Kelso tries to clinch but Nazareth is having none of it.
Kelso tries to clinch but Nazareth is having none of it.
Kelso tries to close the distance and clinch but Nazareth swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Kelso on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Kelso tries to clinch there but Nazareth circles away.
Nazareth thows a body shot but no joy.
Kelso moves in looking to clinch but Nazareth pushes him off.
Nazareth scores with a jab to the body.

Nazareth gets a clinch.
Kelso is trying to break the clinch but Nazareth has him pressed against the cage.
Nazareth changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Kelso fights it off and pushes away nicely.
Nazareth is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Kelso can do to turn this around?
Kelso wants to clinch

and Nazareth counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Kelso is striking from the bottom but he's now found himself mounted! Oh dear - not enough focus on defense there.
Kelso takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Kelso is trying to escape the mount.
Kelso throwing hammer fists to the chest of Nazareth. What's that going to do exactly?

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nazareth is landing with some decent strikes but Kelso is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Nazareth putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Nazareth controlling the position easily from mount.
Kelso in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Nazareth working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Kelso is trying to escape the mount.
Nazareth unloading with bombs!
Nazareth looking to control and managing it successfully.
Kelso sneaks a leg back under and regains half guard and is working straight away to try and get back to guard. He hasn't managed just yet though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth trying to control the action but Kelso is working from the bottom.
Nazareth wants to pass the guard but Kelso is defending well.
Kelso is looking for a sweep. Nazareth is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Nazareth blocks the strikes from Kelso.
Kelso throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Nazareth scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Nice strikes from Nazareth there.
Nazareth sitting and controlling from the half guard.

Kelso looking for submissions off his back.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth drops an elbow to the side of Kelso's head.
Kelso misses with some strikes from the bottom.
Still in half guard, Nazareth seems content to control.
Kelso wants to get back to full guard but Nazareth has mounted him!
Nazareth blocks Kelso's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Kelso flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Nazareth is in the full mount, landing strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nazareth landing strikes from the mount.
Nazareth punishing his opponent with strikes.
Nazareth has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Kelso's face.
Nazareth with shots to the head and body - Kelso looks very uncomfortable down there.
Kelso tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Michael Kelso has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Nazareth putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Kelso throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Nazareth lands a heavy elbow.
Nazareth controlling the pace for now.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

And that's the end of the fight!
Chad Nazareth showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Nazareth has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... 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 Winston Howard scores the fight 30:27
Judge Bruno Hogan scores the fight 30:27
Judge Hugh Johnson scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Chad Nazareth!