PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matt Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tito Ortiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Black's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Disturbed - Indestructible. Ortiz has chosen Click Click Boom as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Black
vs
Ortiz

190 cm
21
210 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

185 cm
25
207 lbs
10 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Matt Black!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Tito Ortiz!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Dillan Fox and Robert Douchet.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Black throws a leg kick but Ortiz checks it.
Good work by Ortiz as he checks the leg kick.
Black takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Black throws a leg kick but Ortiz sees it coming and moves out of range.
Black lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Ortiz misses with a body kick.
Matt Black seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Ortiz connects with a solid leg kick.
This has been an exciting period of action!
A low kick from Black is predictable there
and Ortiz counters with a leg kick.
Black is breathing heavily.
Ortiz connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Ortiz tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Ortiz fails in his attempt to clinch.
Ortiz fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.

Ortiz has Black up against the cage in a clinch.
Ortiz keeps control of Black as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Ortiz has had enough of the clinch but Black keeps him there for the moment.
Ortiz blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Ortiz tries to break the clinch but Black is controlling the position.
Black tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Ortiz avoids it.
A knee to the head by Black.

Black breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Ortiz thumps Black with a low kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ortiz swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Black blocks a head kick by Ortiz.
Ortiz lets loose with a powerful body kick. Black will feel that in the morning.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Ortiz is looking to clinch.
Ortiz rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Black moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Ortiz fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Black.
Ortiz is looking to score with low kicks.
The fight stays on the outside here - Ortiz looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Black swats away the attempt to clinch by Ortiz.
Black throws a leg kick
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.

Ortiz closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Ortiz tries to break free but Black pushes him back against the cage.
Knees to the body from Ortiz.
Black has Ortiz pressed against the cage, preventing Ortiz from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Black has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Ortiz is trying to stall.
Ortiz wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Black has him pressed against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A short right from Ortiz.

Ortiz escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Black finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Ortiz wants to clinch.
A head kick from Ortiz lands but Black takes it in his stride.

It looks like Matt Black has been cut.

Ortiz closes the distance and pushes Black back into the cage.
Black misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Ortiz.
A frustrated look appears on Ortiz's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Ortiz has had enough of the clinch but Black keeps him there for the moment.
Ortiz is looking to break free of the clinch but Black has double underhooks.

Ortiz manages to break the clinch.
A head kick by Ortiz - that's a beauty! Black is out but he's somehow still standing... he's going... going... gone. Like a drunk walking down the middle of the road, the inevitable face plant follows and the delayed knockout arrives. Even Ortiz can't help but laugh at the bizarre end to this one!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Tito Ortiz!