PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Murphy Brown (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and junior dos santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying dos santos's choice of entrance music: fire with fire. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Brown
vs
dos santos

215 cm
20
185 lbs
3 - 6 - 0

194 cm
27
188 lbs
6 - 10 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Determined

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 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Murphy Brown!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, junior dos santos!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Eliza Hachem and Donatello Bradman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Brown avoids a punch combination nicely.
dos santos lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Brown doesn't succeed with the takedown
and dos santos counters with a nice uppercut.
dos santos throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Brown.
Brown with a lazy takedown attempt
and dos santos counters with a one-two to the body.
Brown with a poor takedown
and dos santos counters with a one-two to the body.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Murphy Brown. That's going to take a lot out of him.
dos santos feints a jab promting Brown to slip. dos santos then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Brown slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
dos santos rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Brown moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
dos santos throws a nice looking combination but Brown bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Brown doesn't succeed with the takedown
and dos santos counters with a series of strikes. Brown will be more careful next time no doubt.
Brown has his takedown stuffed
and dos santos counters with a series of strikes. Brown will be more careful next time no doubt.

Brown is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
dos santos misses with a double jab.
Brown tries for a takedown but dos santos circles away easily
and dos santos counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Brown is breathing heavily.
Brown is on the wrong end of a nice combination from dos santos.

That's one minute gone in the round.
dos santos fails to land with a series of punches.
dos santos connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Brown momentarily.
Brown fails with the takedown
and dos santos counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
dos santos scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Oh Brown is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
dos santos is working the combinations to good effect here.
dos santos lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by dos santos.
Some wild striking there from dos santos.
Brown seems to have got his legs back now.
dos santos throws a right hand that Brown ducks under and follows up with a left that Brown also avoids with ease.
Brown tries for a takedown but dos santos circles away easily
enabling dos santos to counter with a crisp jab.
dos santos connects with a looping right hand.
dos santos throws a series of strikes that have Brown backpedaling.
dos santos shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Brown eats them both and turns towards dos santos to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
dos santos misses with a series of wild punches.
dos santos connects with a combination that backs up Brown into the cage. dos santos lands a flurry of punches that gets past Brown's guard. Brown is down and the referee has seen enough. It is all over! dos santos bursts into tears - this win obviously means a huge amount to him.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:05 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). junior dos santos!