PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Warrock Warner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ray Richardson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Warner's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Gin Wigmore - Black Sheep . Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Warner
vs
Richardson

165 cm
21
134 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

175 cm
21
135 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Good chin

Good wrestler
Brawler
Determined

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Warrock Warner!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Ray Richardson!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Damien Edna and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Warner stuffs the takedown.

Warner gets the takedown into side control.
Richardson manages to get back to half guard.

Richardson kicks off Warner and gets to his feet.
Warner fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Richardson displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Warner.
Warner gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Richardson counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Warner's guard now.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Warrock Warner. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Warner is breathing heavily.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Richardson postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Richardson wants to control from the top but Warner keeps moving.
Richardson lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Richardson accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Richardson is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Richardson slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Richardson lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Richardson wants to pass the guard but Warner is keeping the position.
Richardson connects with a couple of short punches.
Richardson cracks Warner with a solid left hand.
Richardson trying to control but Warner is working from the bottom.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Richardson accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Richardson scoring with punches to the head and body.
Richardson postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Richardson works over Warner with some ground and pound from guard.

Richardson stands and steps away. Warner gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Richardson defends well against a solid takedown attempt from Warner.
Richardson throws a right hand that Warner ducks under and follows up with a left that Warner also avoids with ease.

Richardson closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Warner's guard.
Richardson slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Richardson creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Richardson connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused Warner some visible discomfort.
Richardson creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Warner wants to control but Richardson postures up.
Richardson content to control the pace. The referee will try and keep them active though.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Warner takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Richardson wants to control but Warner is keeping him busy.

Richardson working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Warner takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Richardson working the ground and pound.
Richardson working the head with strikes.
Richardson working the ground and pound.

Warner is rocked!
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!
A big shot lands for Richardson! That's hurt Warner! Will he recover? Richardson fires away with more strikes and the referee has to step in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ray Richardson!
Ray Richardson is the new bantamweight champion!
Ray Richardson decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.