PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Travis Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kurt Sloane (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sloane is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Never Surrender. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Black
vs
Sloane

182 cm
26
205 lbs
13 - 13 - 0

201 cm
27
224 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

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 13 - 13 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Travis Black!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Kurt Sloane!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Konstantin Menshow and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sloane scores with a jab to the head.
Black throws a left and a right that both miss
and Sloane counters with a slapping leg kick.
Sloane tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Black tries to clinch
and Sloane counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Black misses with a takedown attempt
and Sloane counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Black is lucky that one didn't land flush.
Black misses with a lunging right hand
and Sloane counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Black is trying hard to land a takedown here. Sloane sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Black tries to clinch but Sloane moves away
and Sloane counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Black with a poor takedown
and Sloane counters with a good low kick that Black was not able to check.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Travis Black. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Black is breathing heavily.
Sloane throws a leg kick which misses Black's front leg but catches the back leg as Black tries to avoid it.
Sloane slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Black shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Sloane sprawls well. Sloane wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Black gets slowly back to his feet.
Sloane listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.

It looks like Travis Black has been cut.
Sloane lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by Sloane.
Sloane lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Sloane scores with a decent looking hook.
This is turning into a torrid day at the office for Black. He's trying desperately to land a takedown but he's failing miserably and getting slapped silly on the feet to compound his misery.
Sloane circles to his right before unloading a perfect head kick! Black drops to the canvas, hurt badly! Sloane follows Black to the ground and unloads with a series of strikes that force the referee to step in and end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kurt Sloane!