PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Andrew Anderson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Russel Ebert (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ebert is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor - Drowning Pool. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Anderson
vs
Ebert

180 cm
23
185 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

182 cm
26
190 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Knockout power

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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 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Andrew Anderson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Russel Ebert!
The judges for this bout are Paul Tew, Andrew Berry and Steven Brown.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Anderson shoots in for a double leg but Ebert sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
Anderson scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Ebert uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Anderson.

The fight moves into the clinch position.

Ebert breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Donk. Ebert catches Anderson right on the button with a cross.
Anderson takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Anderson throws out a loose jab but Ebert uses good head movement to avoid it.
Anderson fails with a takedown attempt.
Anderson pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.

Ebert gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.

Ebert turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!
Anderson is looking to regain half guard here but Ebert keeps moving and retains side control.
Ebert scoring with punches from side control.
Anderson takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ebert working away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Check out the look on Ebert's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Ebert has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Ebert in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Ebert lands a decent elbow from side control.
Ebert landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Anderson is working to avoid the ground and pound but Ebert connects with a decent elbow.
Ebert cracks Anderson with a big elbow.
Ebert landing a few strikes.
Ebert working the head and body with strikes.
Ebert works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Anderson taking punishment in the form of punches.
Ebert taking a break here but Anderson is having none of it and regains half guard.
Ebert looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Anderson with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Anderson is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Ebert pulls his head out easily.
Ebert scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Ebert lands strikes from half guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Ebert is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Anderson trying to control from the bottom.
Ground and pound from Ebert.
Ebert thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Anderson is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Ebert scores with a couple of nice shots.

Anderson looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Ebert is trying to control the action in half guard but Anderson is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ebert slips a nice elbow through Anderson's hands, connecting with Anderson's forehead.
Ebert looks to score some points with some ground and pound.

Anderson is rocked!
Nice strikes from Ebert there.
Oh Anderson is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Ebert working Anderson over with strikes.
Ebert lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Anderson quite badly. Anderson pulls Ebert in close trying to recover. Ebert postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Anderson on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Anderson doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Russel Ebert!