PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mickey Yang (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Travis Mercer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Mickey Yang has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Yang
vs
Mercer

181 cm
20
213 lbs
4 - 6 - 0

192 cm
21
220 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very strong

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mickey Yang!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Travis Mercer!
The judges for this bout are Hugh Johnson, Skip Squint and Steve Erwin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mercer checks a leg kick.
Mercer checks the leg kick nicely there.
Yang throws a leg kick but Mercer sees it coming and checks it nicely.

Mercer shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Mercer raining down shots from the mount!
Mercer throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Yang wants to use the cage to get back to his feet here.
Mercer thowing strikes but they're hitting the gloves, not doing any damage.
Yang is bucking up trying to escape but Mercer cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Yang wants to get back to his feet.
Mercer lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Yang is looking to get back to his feet - it's going to be hard from this position.
Mercer breaks from Yang's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Mercer landing strikes, looking to finish!
Poor strikes thrown by Mercer there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
The referee warns Yang that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mercer is landing with some decent strikes but Yang is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Mercer scoring with strikes but Yang is staying in there.
Mercer scoring with strikes but Yang is staying in there.

Yang is rocked!
Mercer softens up his opponent with a couple of shots there and then CRACK! One massive shot lands there and Yang is out cold! Mercer jumps to his feet and celebrates on the cage with the fans, who are, quite frankly, going absolutely mental!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Travis Mercer!