PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mark Kermodian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Action Jackson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Kermodian might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum. Action Jackson has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Kermodian
vs
Jackson

185 cm
30
215 lbs
21 - 18 - 1

188 cm
29
222 lbs
9 - 9 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Popeye’s Spinach - 159 + 158 Proof Supps
:: Happy Pills ::

Popeye’s Spinach - 159 + 158 Proof Supps

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 21 - 18 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Mark Kermodian!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Action Jackson!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Dillan Fox and Gregory Folan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kermodian lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.

Kermodian gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Jackson looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Kermodian misses with an elbow over the top.
Kermodian pressing his opponent against the cage.
Kermodian misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Kermodian will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Jackson up against the cage.
Jackson can't break the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Come on Kermodian - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Jackson dodges an elbow strike from Kermodian.
Kermodian stalling.
Kermodian tries a knee to the head but Jackson blocks it.
Kermodian lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Jackson wants to get back to striking at distance but Kermodian won't allow it.
Kermodian stalls.
Kermodian tries a knee to the head but Jackson blocks it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kermodian tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Jackson avoids it.
A nice right hand lands inside from Kermodian.
Kermodian leaning against his opponent.
Kermodian seems to have come into the fight with the intention of avoiding any damage in the clinch, rather than actually showing any aggression.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Mark Kermodian.
Jackson blocks a low kick nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kermodian scoring well with a low kick there.
Kermodian dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Jackson. That did some damage!
Mark Kermodian seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kermodian cracks the inside of Jackson's front leg.
Kermodian tries to clinch there but Jackson circles away.
A shot to the body from Kermodian misses
and Jackson counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Kermodian throws a body kick the misses
letting Jackson counter with a right hand.
Kermodian moves in looking to clinch but Jackson pushes him off.
A slow jab from Kermodian misses its intended target.
A jab from Jackson does it's job there.
Kermodian tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kermodian scores with a jab.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Jackson avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Jackson takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Jackson is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Kermodian ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Kermodian misses with a straight left.
Kermodian goes for a high kick. It partially lands.

Jackson is rocked!
Jackson gets caught by a big overhand right and goes down! Kermodian gets on top of him and starts throwing some serious punches until the ref intervenes and stops the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mark Kermodian!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Mark Kermodian waved his t-shirt featuring Popeye’s Spinach - 159 + 158 Proof Supps's logo in front of the cameras.