PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matthew Janice (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kanu Mitzucuik (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Janice
vs
Mitzucuik

185 cm
26
257 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

192 cm
25
245 lbs
7 - 7 - 0

Decent wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Matthew Janice!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Kanu Mitzucuik!
The judges for this bout are Robert Douchet, Gregory Folan and Steve Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Janice does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Mitzucuik 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.
Janice cracks Mitzucuik with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Janice pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Janice fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Mitzucuik checks it well.
Nice defenses there by Janice.
Mitzucuik tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Janice tries a low kick but Mitzucuik avoids it.
Mitzucuik lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Janice at a distance.
Janice wants to clinch.
Janice wants to land a leg kick but Mitzucuik is out of range.
Mitzucuik scores with a crisp jab that stopped Janice in his tracks.

Janice has taken the fight to the clinch.
Mitzucuik can't find room to land a body shot as Janice controls the action.
Mitzucuik avoiding damage as Janice throws knees to the body.
Mitzucuik lands a hook that snaps the head of Janice backwards.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Janice lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Kanu Mitzucuik has been cut.
Janice throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mitzucuik blocks it with crossed arms.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Janice blocks a body shot from Mitzucuik.
Janice lands a hook that snaps the head of Mitzucuik backwards.
Mitzucuik goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Janice pushes off an throws an elbow but Mitzucuik leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Janice trying to land knees to the body.
Janice looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Mitzucuik trying to stall but Janice improves his position.
Mitzucuik tries to work over Janice's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Janice tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Still in the clinch, Mitzucuik scores with a nice short uppercut.
Mitzucuik tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Janice's elbow.
Janice working Mitzucuik over with knees to the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Mitzucuik lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Janice throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mitzucuik blocks it with crossed arms.
Mitzucuik avoids a wild elbow strike from Janice.
Mitzucuik misses with a hook to the ribs.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mitzucuik scores with a shot to the side of Janice's head.
Janice misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Mitzucuik.
Mitzucuik lands a right hand.
Janice prevents a body shot from Mitzucuik.
Mitzucuik is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.
Janice looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Mitzucuik misses with some punches.
Janice gets through Mitzucuik's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Janice throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Janice throws an elbow that misses.
Janice misses with a hook from the clinch.
Mitzucuik is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Janice pulls him back up using the underhooks.
Mitzucuik avoiding damage as Janice throws knees to the body.
Janice is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Mitzucuik is defending well for now.
Janice throws an elbow that misses.
Janice throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mitzucuik blocks it with crossed arms.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mitzucuik blocks a body shot from Janice.
Janice is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Mitzucuik can't find room to land a body shot as Janice controls the action.
Janice utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Janice tries to work over Mitzucuik's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Janice lands a right hand.
Janice lands on the inside with an uppercut.
A short uppercut from Mitzucuik.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Janice lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Mitzucuik blocks an elbow strike from Janice.
Janice misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Mitzucuik.
Mitzucuik is leaning against Janice and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Janice tries to land a knee to the head but Mitzucuik blocks with his arms.
Janice lands a knee to the head.
Mitzucuik blocking some punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Janice blocks a body shot from Mitzucuik.
Mitzucuik avoids the elbow strike from Janice, against the cage.
Janice creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Mitzucuik tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Janice lands a hook that snaps the head of Mitzucuik backwards.

That has opened up Kanu Mitzucuik's cut even more.
Janice lands an elbow inside that Mitzucuik shrugs off.
Mitzucuik has a couple of punches blocked by Janice.
Janice lands an elbow inside.
Janice throws an elbow but it misses.
Janice pushes off an throws an elbow but Mitzucuik leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Janice creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Mitzucuik's defenses.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Mitzucuik dodges an elbow strike from Janice.
Janice misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Mitzucuik.

Mitzucuik turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!

The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Mitzucuik tries for a kimura but Janice is defending well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Matthew Janice dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kanu Mitzucuik's cut.
That's time! Janice's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Some bone on bone action there as Mitzucuik checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Janice will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Mitzucuik misses the shot to the body.
Janice tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Mitzucuik is able to avoid easily.
Mitzucuik moves away from the strike by Janice.
Janice is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Mitzucuik tries to bum rush Janice with a series of wild strikes but Janice uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Janice misses with a leg kick

and Mitzucuik decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Janice's guard.
Janice not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Mitzucuik looking to pass the guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mitzucuikis looking to pass into half guard but Janice pushes him away with his feet and jumps on top - now Janice is in guard.
Mitzucuik lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Janice!
Janice wants to control but Mitzucuik is having none of it.

Mitzucuik goes for an armbar but he's fallen flat on his backside there and now Janice is on top in guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Janice wants to control from the top but Mitzucuik keeps moving.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up, due to lack of activity on the part of Matthew Janice.
Mitzucuik lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Janice misses with a low kick.

Janice closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mitzucuik lands a shot to the body.
Mitzucuik on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Janice unloads a knee to the mid-section. Mitzucuik lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Mitzucuik avoids a wild elbow strike from Janice.
Mitzucuik misses with a punch to the body.
Mitzucuik avoiding damage as Janice throws knees to the body.
Mitzucuik avoids a wild elbow strike from Janice.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mitzucuik.
Janice misses with a knee to the head.
Janice misses with an elbow strike.
Janice creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Mitzucuik blocks an elbow strike.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mitzucuik.
Janice is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Mitzucuik is defending well for now.
Janice pushes off an throws an elbow but Mitzucuik leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Janice pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Janice blocks a body shot from Mitzucuik.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Mitzucuik blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Janice tries a body shot but Mitzucuik blocks it.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Janice obliges.
Janice throws an elbow that misses.
Mitzucuik lands with a light punch inside.
Mitzucuik avoiding damage as Janice throws knees to the body.
Janice with a knee to the head.

The cut above Kanu Mitzucuik's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Mitzucuik scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Janice misses with an elbow strike.
Janice comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

Kanu Mitzucuik's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Kanu Mitzucuik's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Matthew Janice!
Matthew Janice spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.