PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Quinton Jackson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brock Thompson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Thompson has chosen Cruel Summer as his entrance music. This should be fireworks!

Jackson
vs
Thompson

188 cm
27
215 lbs
8 - 1 - 1

185 cm
24
210 lbs
13 - 4 - 1

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Lethal high kicks
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Quinton Jackson!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 4 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Brock Thompson!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Yukihiro Shimada and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jackson misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Thompson looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Jackson slips under a jab.
Thompson uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Jackson.
Thompson dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Jackson. That did some damage!
Thompson delivers a nice body kick.
Thompson feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Jackson's calf.
Jackson sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Thompson plants his feet and lands a nice head kick!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Thompson throws a head kick that Jackson semi-blocks.
Brock Thompson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Thompson lands with a kick to the temple. Jackson shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Thompson thumps Jackson with a low kick.
Thompson throws out a loose jab but Jackson uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jackson throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Thompson connects with a leg kick. Jackson looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Thompson bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Jackson is breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Thompson fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Jackson has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Jackson on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Thompson lands a nice looking body kick.
Thompson lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Thompson cracks the inside of Jackson's front leg.
Jackson takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Thompson moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Thompson lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Thompson scores with a leg kick.
Thompson buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Thompson moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Jackson's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Thompson connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Jackson scrambles back to his feet.
Thompson scores with a push kick.
Thompson swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Thompson lands with a thumping leg kick.
A chopping leg kick lands by Thompson.
Thompson pushes Jackson away with a front kick.
A big left from Jackson misses.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Thompson.
Thompson lands a really nice looking cross but Jackson seems unphased.
Thompson moves into range and connects with a jab.
Thompson throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Thompson lands with a kick to the ribs.
Thompson throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.
Nice body punch from Thompson.
Thompson keeps Jackson at a distance using the push kick.
A head kick from Thompson lands but Jackson takes it in his stride.
Thompson buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Thompson lands a high kick!
Jackson's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Thompson connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Jackson scrambles back to his feet.
Thompson scores with a head kick. Jackson tried to block it but didn't get his arm up in time.

Jackson is rocked!
Thompson lunges in with a left hook that violently twists Jackson head around and knocks him out cold! Thompson hops onto the cage and yells out at the top of his lungs - Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah! They're showing the replay on the big screens now; that was nasty! I hope one of the photographers got a good shot of it.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Brock Thompson!
Brock Thompson is the new light heavyweight champion!