PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Malachi Lawrence (ranked 876 p4p, 834 weight class) and Macho Man Randy (ranked 124 p4p, 118 weight class). Lawrence's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Many Men. Malachi Lawrence could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Macho Man Randy's chin.

Lawrence
vs
Randy

180 cm
38
174
29 - 24 - 0

177 cm
33
177
16 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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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 29 - 24 - 0, fighting out of New York, Malachi Lawrence!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Macho Man Randy!
The judges for this bout are Ron Honeybunn, Eliza Hachem and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Randy keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Randy looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Nice sprawl there from Randy as Lawrence shoots in.
Randy looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Randy throws a jab when Lawrence was well out of range.

Lawrence bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Randy tries to buck Lawrence off but Lawrence is having none of it.
Randy is trying to control Lawrence's posture but Lawrence avoids it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Lawrence lands a nice forearm strike.
Lawrence lands a few punches from side control.
Randy struggling a bit here.
Lawrence cracks Randy with a big elbow.
Lawrence wants to lay and pray for a moment but Randy keeps working.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Randy is looking to reverse the position.
Randy can't do much from the bottom here.
Randy is looking to reverse the position.
Lawrence working the head and body with strikes.
Lawrence working away.
Randy tries to buck Lawrence off but Lawrence is having none of it.
Lawrence is chipping away with strikes.
We've been hearing that Lawrence has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
Lawrence working the head with strikes.
Lawrence cracks Randy with a big elbow.
Randy is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Lawrence controls the position from side control.
Lawrence in side control lands a decent elbow.
Randy sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Randy actively working from the bottom here.

Lawrence is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Lawrence is thwarting Randy's attempts to control the position.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Lawrence lands a nice short elbow.
Lawrence looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Randy with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Lawrence is thwarting Randy's attempts to control the position.
Lawrence 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.
Randy has hold of Lawrence's hands but Lawrence slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Randy is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Lawrence scores with a couple of nice shots.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Randy actively working from the bottom here.
Lawrence drops an elbow to the side of Randy's head.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!
Lawrence is nestled in close to Randy, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence is keen to just control but Randy is a slippery customer.
Lawrence lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Lawrence trying to control the action but Randy is working from the bottom.
Lawrence is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Lawrence trying to control from half guard but Randy is working away.
Lawrence takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Randy is trying to stand.
Lawrence with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
Lawrence wants to control but Randy is keeping him busy.
Randy moves into full guard.
Lawrence lands a couple of elbows.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Randy is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Randy keeping moving, preventing Lawrence from controlling successfully.
Randy pulls Lawrence in close to his closed guard and prevents Lawrence from doing any damage or advancing position.
Randy keeping moving, preventing Lawrence from controlling successfully.
Lawrence lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Lawrence wants to control from the top but Randy keeps moving.
Lawrence scoring with some ground and pound.

Randy working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Lawrence doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Lawrence manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
Lawrence cracks Randy with a solid left hand.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Malachi Lawrence dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare each other down, ready to get back to the action.

Good shot there by Lawrence.
Lawrence defending well as Randy loads up on a big left hand.
Lawrence misses with a low kick.
Lawrence throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Randy's waist but Randy gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Lawrence off to one side.
Lawrence uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Randy.
Lawrence takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.

It looks like Malachi Lawrence has been cut.
Lawrence dives in and grabs Randy's left leg, looking for a takedown. Randy pushes down on Lawrence's head and hops out.
Randy looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Horrible takedown attempt by Lawrence or perhaps it was just good defense by Randy, which made it look bad.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Malachi Lawrence. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Danga de danga de dang - Lawrence scores with a four punch combination!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Randy looks to land a left hand but Lawrence moved out of range nicely.
Randy dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Randy throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
A slow jab from Randy misses its intended target.
Some wild striking there from Lawrence.
Randy is looking for the big counter here.
Lawrence walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Randy checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Macho Man Randy is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Lawrence slips a straight right by Randy.
Malachi Lawrence seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Lawrence moves away from the strike by Randy.
Lawrence is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Randy can do to turn this around?

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence throws an off balance right hand
enabling Randy to counter with a crisp jab.

Lawrence closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Randy quickly recovers to half guard.
Lawrence lands with a punch from half guard.
Ground and pound from Lawrence.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Randy looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Lawrence working Randy over with strikes.
Randy is staying active underneath Lawrence, who seems content to just control the action from this position.
Lawrence working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

Randy looking for submissions off his back.
Randy moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Randy wants to sweep but no luck.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence cracks Randy with a solid left hand.
Lawrence passes Randy's right leg, so he's now in half guard.

Randy looking for submissions off his back.
Lawrence looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Lawrence frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Lawrence landing strikes from the mount.
Randy slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.
Lawrence working Randy over with strikes.

Randy is rocked!
Lawrence takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Randy is still in real trouble! Can Lawrence finish him?
Malachi Lawrence overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Lawrence is keen to just control but Randy is a slippery customer.
Lawrence looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Randy with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Lawrence is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Lawrence works his foot free and advances to mount.
Randy wants to control but Lawrence is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Randy keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Lawrence looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Randy covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:24 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Malachi Lawrence!
Malachi Lawrence looked relieved post fight as he said the following; 'OOH YEAH, I Just Destroy Macho Man Randy Savage. I Can Hear All WWE Fans Crying, I Just Gave Him Real Wrestling. Not Fake Bullshit Like WWE'.