PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mike Mercurious (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and brian polski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). brian polski has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Mercurious
vs
polski

184 cm
20
194 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

189 cm
23
185 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very quick

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Very confident

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Mike Mercurious!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, brian polski!
The judges for this bout are Ian Loll, Trevor Gratis and Robert Douchet.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
polski on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Mercurious.
Check out the look on Mercurious's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
polski avoids any damage from the ground and pound of Mercurious.
Mercurious cracks polski with a big right hand but polski just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Mercurious staying calm.
polski is not content to let Mercurious control the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mercurious sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but polski is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Mercurious scoring with punches from side control.
polski is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Mercurious has control of an arm but polski manages to advance to Mercurious's back!

polski working for the choke.
Mercurious covering up well under a barage of strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

polski has his hand under the chin of his opponent looking for the choke. He's nearly got it! This one could be all over! But no, Mercurious has freed his hand and lives to survive another… well, another couple of seconds at least!

polski is looking for a choke. Mercurious gets to his feet with his opponent on his back and slams him to the mat. Mercurious manages to squirm out of the attempted choke and turns into his opponent's guard.
Mercurious passes polski's left leg - he's now in half guard.

Mercurious stands, ready to strike. The ref makes him back up and allows polski to get to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mercurious lands with a nice body punch.
polski looks gassed!
polski looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
polski doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Mercurious moves into the clinch.
Mercurious lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Mercurious breaks from the clinch.
polski misses with a takedown attempt

and Mercurious counters with a big uppercut that knocks polski off his feet! Mercurious dives into side control looking to finish!

polski is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A big shot lands for Mercurious! That's hurt polski! Will he recover? Mercurious fires away with more strikes and the referee has to step in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mike Mercurious!