PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Johnny Knoxville (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Zorich (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Johnny Knoxville is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Knoxville
vs
Zorich

190 cm
27
270 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

188 cm
22
268 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very strong

Olympic wrestler
Good kicks
Good gas tank

1337 ANZAC

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of London, Johnny Knoxville!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Chris Zorich!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Andrew Berry and Richard Clark.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Knoxville misses with a head kick.
Knoxville swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Knoxville scores with a kick to the body.
Knoxville waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Zorich.
Knoxville looks for the body kick but Zorich saw that one coming.
Johnny Knoxville seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Knoxville keeps Zorich at a distance using the push kick.
Knoxville throws the kick towards the body but Zorich avoids it.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Zorich takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Zorich chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Knoxville can pounce on him.
Knoxville tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Zorich checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Zorich blocks the body kick.
Knoxville pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Zorich.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knoxville throws a low kick but Zorich avoids it.
Johnny Knoxville is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Zorich just misses with a punch to the body.
Knoxville throws a head kick but Zorich moves out of range.
Zorich will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Zorich drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.

Zorich tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Zorich has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Knoxville on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Knoxville tries to get out of the position.
Knoxville on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zorich taking a breather here.
Zorich looks up at the clock and then as Knoxville takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Zorich smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Zorich controls the position from side control.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Knoxville is trying to control Zorich's posture but Zorich avoids it.
Zorich has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Knoxville wants to control but Zorich is having none of it.
Zorich controlling his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Knoxville takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Zorich content just to control the position here.
Zorich landing shots from mount.
Knoxville taking shots to the head.
Knoxville tries to hold on but Zorich postures up.
Zorich controlling from the full mount.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Let's hope that Zorich has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Knoxville tries to hold on but Zorich postures up.
Zorich controlling the pace for now.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Zorich with good strikes from the mount here!
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Zorich fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Zorich takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Knoxville's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Chris Zorich dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Knoxville is looking to score with low kicks.
Zorich throws a shot from downtown. Knoxville moves away and avoids it.

Zorich gets a takedown into half guard.
Zorich perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Zorich passes to side control.
Knoxville trying to control but Zorich flips him over like a cheap hooker and has his back!
Chris Zorich has got the better of the ground game so far.

Zorich looking for the rear naked choke. And he's got it! Knoxville taps!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:59 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Chris Zorich!
An out of breath and clearly excited Chris Zorich thanked 1337 ANZAC for their help and support (and free stuff they sent him).