PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gary The Hitman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michael Bisping (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The Hitman comes to the cage accompanied by Jay Z - Run This Town. Bisping has chosen You Dont Know - 50 Cent as his entrance music. Michael Bisping will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

The Hitman
vs
Bisping

180 cm
23
205 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

200 cm
23
205 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Knockout power

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Bare Knuckle Clothing [CBK]

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Gary The Hitman!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Michael Bisping!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Alyssa Summers and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The Hitman throws a leg kick that misses.
Bisping throws a head kick that misses.
Bisping avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
The Hitman looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
The Hitman scores with a leg kick.
Bisping misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
The Hitman feints and then cracks Bisping's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Bisping down.
The Hitman tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Bisping swivels and escapes.
Bisping tries to clinch but The Hitman is having none of it.
Bisping misses with a head kick.
The Hitman fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Bisping checks it well.
The Hitman swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
The Hitman wants to clinch
and Bisping counters with a solid body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bisping throws a nice head kick!
Bisping misses with a takedown
and The Hitman counters with a nice low kick that buckles Bisping's knee momentarily.
Bisping wants to clinch.
Bisping throws a head kick that misses

and The Hitman counters by clinching up.
The Hitman blocks a body shot from Bisping.
The Hitman trying to land knees to the body.
The Hitman prevents a body shot from Bisping.
The Hitman blocking some punches.
Bisping on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Bisping tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and The Hitman avoids it.
The Hitman unloads a knee to the mid-section. Bisping lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Bisping prevents a takedown attempt there.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Gary The Hitman. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Bisping taking a breather.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

The Hitman breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
A head kick by Bisping misses

and The Hitman counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
The Hitman wants to control but Bisping is keeping him busy.

The Hitman seems to be working for a kimura but Bisping defends the submission attempt.
The Hitman throwing shots but Bisping is blocking nicely.

The Hitman is working for a submission of some sort.
Bisping is looking to improve his position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Hitman frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
The Hitman is in the full mount, landing strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The Hitman landing shots from mount.
Bisping is squirming around, avoiding The Hitman's attempts to control the action.

The Hitman is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, Bisping has managed to escape the submission attempt.
The Hitman misses with a head shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

The Hitman goes for an armbar but he's not got it… Bisping turns into him and now he's in The Hitman's guard.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
The Hitman has momentary wrist control but Bisping slips an elbow through the middle.
The Hitman trying to keep a closed guard but Bisping is proving a slippery customer.
The Hitman 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.

The Hitman scrambles and gets back to his feet.
Bisping throws a lazy body kick
and The Hitman counters with a nice low kick that buckles Bisping's knee momentarily.
The Hitman tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Bisping swivels and escapes.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Bisping clinches with his opponent.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Bisping jumps guard.
Bisping looking to control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Gary The Hitman dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

The Hitman shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Bisping but Bisping pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Bisping doesn't manage to clinch there - The Hitman circles away.
The Hitman throws a predictable looking body shot
and Bisping counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. The Hitman is lucky that one didn't land flush.
The Hitman fails to land the takedown.
A head kick misses from Bisping.

Bisping gets the takedown into side control.
The Hitman is looking to reverse the position.
The Hitman prevents Bisping from improving position.

Bisping working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Hitman gets back to half guard.
The Hitman is in trouble now - Bisping has advanced to mount!

Bisping moves into side control, trying to work for a kimura. That looks painful! Will he finish!!?? No, The Hitman has worked his arm free - good work by The Hitman!
The Hitman tries to control but Bisping manages to take his back.
Bisping tries to keep control of the position but The Hitman is staying busy.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The Hitman manages to scramble and ends up in full guard, under a barage of strikes . Great composure from The Hitman.
The Hitman trying to control the position.
Bisping trying to control the position from guard on top but The Hitman is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Bisping postures up.

Bisping stands up over his opponent, looking to dive in with a big punch. Here he comes, superman style! Oh, the punch misses and The Hitman has got him in a triangle choke for good measure! Oh no! Bisping manages to get his head free but now The Hitman has transitioned to an armbar! Bisping grimaces and is forced to tap! Beautiful Jiu Jitsu from The Hitman! I'd be surprised if that didn't end up as submission of the night!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:53 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Gary The Hitman!
Gary The Hitman retains his light heavyweight title!