PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Artie Lange (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vickers comes into the arena with Boats N' Hoes blaring out of the sound system. Lange has chosen Fire - Bruce Springsteen as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Artie Lange has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Jeremetrius Vickers
vs
Lange

190 cm
25
193 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

182 cm
28
199 lbs
14 - 7 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

TFP Graphics - Pit Inc

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 7 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Artie Lange!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Daniel Bishop and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Vickers tries to clinch but Lange moves out of range.
Vickers tries to clinch
letting Lange counter with a right hand.
Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Vickers moves in looking to clinch but Lange pushes him off.
Vickers moves in looking to clinch but Lange pushes him off.
Lange keeps the fight on the outside.

Vickers closes the distance and clinches.
Vickers tries to land knees in the clinch but Lange avoids the damage to the body.
Vickers is trying to maintain a safe position but Lange gets an underhook and turns Vickers into the cage.
Lange pushes Vickers back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Vickers stalls.
Vickers can't find room to land a body shot as Lange controls the action.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vickers stalling in the clinch but Lange improves position.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers.
Lange lands with a nice body punch.
Vickers tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Lange paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Lange looks to land a right hand but Vickers moved out of range.
Lange throws a big shot that misses.
Vickers darts in trying to clinch
and Lange counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.

Vickers forces Lange back against the cage and clinches.
Vickers trying to land knees to the body.
Lange throws a head punch that misses.
Vickers is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
The referee calls for Lange to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lange continues to stall. The referee tells him to work or he's going to break them up.
Lange misses with a hook to the ribs.
Vickers tries to land knees in the clinch but Lange avoids the damage to the body.
Lange misses with a hook to the ribs.
Nice body punch from Lange - that landed with a thud.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Knees in the clinch landing for Vickers.
Vickers blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Vickers is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Lange is keeping busy.
Lange blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Good body shot from Lange.
Vickers tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Lange tries a body shot but Vickers blocks it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lange working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Lange pressing his opponent against the cage.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Vickers stalling in the clinch.
Lange goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A short left from Lange.
Vickers missing with knees to the body.

Lange breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Vickers moves in looking to clinch but Lange pushes him off.
Lange lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
A big right from Lange misses.
Vickers is looking to take this fight into the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Vickers is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Vickers tries to clinch but Lange moves out of range.
Lange lands a nice hook to Vickers's body. Vickers takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Vickers steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Lange.
A looping hook to the body misses from Lange. Vickers does a little dance to reset his feet.
Vickers tries to clinch there but Lange circles away.
Vickers tries to clinch
and Lange counters with a straight right hand.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Lange throws a big shot that misses.
Vickers wants to clinch.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Lange lands an overhand right.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Artie Lange 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.

Lange lands a left and a right that send Vickers crashing to the mat, dazed. Lange thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Vickers is rocked!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Lange closes the distance and lands a vicious right hand that drops Vickers! Lange dives in looking to finish! Vickers is still trying to defend himself but he's taking too many shots and the referee has no choice but to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:10 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Artie Lange!
A relieved looking Artie Lange thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.