PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between The Next Big Thing (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Colt Hardin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hardin has chosen Thunder Kiss '65 by White Zombie as his entrance music. I don't know about you partner, but I'm pumped for this one!

Next Big Thing
vs
Hardin

185 cm
21
205 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

190 cm
28
213 lbs
16 - 12 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

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 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, The Next Big Thing!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of New York, Colt Hardin!
The judges for this bout are John Kavanagh, Lou da Vinci and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Big Thing misses with a takedown attempt
enabling Hardin to counter with a crisp jab.
Big Thing looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Big Thing has his takedown stuffed

and Hardin moves into the clinch.
Hardin lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Big Thing is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for The Next Big Thing. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Hardin lands an uppercut.
Hardin lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Hardin scores with a shot to the side of Big Thing's head.
Hardin lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Hardin is pushing Big Thing up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Hardin lands a left hand that snaps the head of Big Thing backwards.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hardin effectively controlling the action here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Colt Hardin.

Hardin looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Big Thing!
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Hardin lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Big Thing hang on?
Hardin is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Hardin with a couple of short strikes.

Big Thing is rocked!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
A big strike lands for Hardin! That's really hurt Big Thing and he's turned his back - Hardin keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Hardin jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Colt Hardin!
Colt Hardin took his opportunity to call for a title shot in his post fight interview.