PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tone Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Benoit (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Benoit comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Spineshank - New Disease kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Black
vs
Benoit

186 cm
20
209 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

225 cm
21
205 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Great elbows
Tends to cut

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 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tone Black!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Chris Benoit!
The judges for this bout are John Kavanagh, Steve Montenegro and Dean Styles.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Black dives in and scores a takedown into Benoit's guard.
Benoit looking to control.
Black connects with a couple of short punches.
Benoit wants to stand up but Black is controlling him.
Black has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Benoit avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Benoit controlling Black's posture.
Black is in close to Benoit's body, working some short punches and elbows.

Black avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Black loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Black loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Benoit looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Black accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Benoit is looking for a triangle but Black pushes his legs off easily.
Benoit is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Black is controlling him.
Black connects with a couple of short punches.
Black trying to control but Benoit is working from the bottom.
Black trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Black cracks Benoit with a solid left hand.
Benoit avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Black throwing strikes but missing.
Black throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Black scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Black postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Black postures up and lands a big shot to Benoit's brow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Black content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Black lands a couple of digs.

Benoit is rocked!
Black is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Benoit is still in real trouble! Can Black finish him?
Black chips away with some ground and pound.
Black passes into half guard.
Benoit looks gassed!
Black lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Black lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Benoit quite badly. Benoit pulls Black in close trying to recover. Black postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Benoit on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Benoit doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tone Black!
A very excited looking Tone Black made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.