PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Clinical CPW (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and RJ McLovin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). McLovin has chosen Nas - Etherl as his entrance music. RJ McLovin struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.1lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

CPW
vs
McLovin

190 cm
20
190 lbs
8 - 0 - 0

185 cm
27
202 lbs
15 - 6 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Determined

Syndicate Drugs
MADE IN GERMANY

MADE IN GERMANY

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 8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Clinical CPW!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 6 - 0, fighting out of London, RJ McLovin!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, Sam Margolis and Donald Grub.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
CPW is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by McLovin.
McLovin lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but CPW circles away quickly and effectively.

McLovin fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with CPW, pushing him back against the cage.

CPW breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
A leg kick checked by CPW.

Excellent takedown into side control there by McLovin.
An elbow from McLovin crashes against the mat.

McLovin looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
McLovin has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
CPW wants to escape from the position here - easier said than done!
McLovin moving around in side mount but really he's just happy to control for now.
CPW on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if CPW tries to get out of the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McLovin trying to control the action but CPW is working from the bottom.
CPW defending against the ground and pound.

McLovin has worked his way into a potential kimura here. CPW is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. McLovin yanks on the arm and CPW is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by McLovin.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). RJ McLovin!