PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Remo Williams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bobby Calagan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Williams comes to the cage accompanied by Remo Williams Theme. Remo Williams has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Williams
vs
Calagan

190 cm
28
190 lbs
14 - 16 - 0

170 cm
25
195 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Granite chin

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 14 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Remo Williams!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Bobby Calagan!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, William Peck and Gregory Folan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Calagan tries to clinch up
and Williams makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Calagan closes the distance but Williams moves to the side
and Williams counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Calagan wants to clinch but Williams slips to the side
and Williams cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Calagan misses with a takedown attempt - Williams sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Calagan closes the distance but Williams moves to the side
enabling Williams to counter with a crisp jab.
Calagan wants to clinch but Williams slips to the side
and Williams counters with a one-two to the body.
Calagan takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Calagan fakes high and shoots in for a takedown but Williams avoids it really well and circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Calagan closes the distance looking to clinch
and Williams counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Calagan looks to clinch
and Williams counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Williams scores with a nice head shot.
Calagan wants to clinch
letting Williams counter with a right hand.
Williams is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Calagan closes the distance but Williams moves to the side
and Williams counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Williams throws a one two combo.
Calagan walks into a left hand.
Calagan tries to move into range but Williams moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Williams moves into the clinch.
Williams throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Williams lands a body shot.

Williams escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Calagan wants to clinch
and Williams counters with a three punch combo that has Calagan backing up. Calagan nods at Williams to acknowledge the strikes.
Calagan tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Williams counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Calagan drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Calagan tries to clinch but Williams moves away
and Williams counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Calagan closes the distance but Williams moves to the side
enabling Williams to counter with a crisp jab.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Calagan shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Williams defends it nicely.
Remo Williams has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Bobby Calagan.
Calagan closes the distance looking to clinch
and Williams counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Williams is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Calagan darts in trying to clinch
and Williams counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Calagan tries to clinch
and Williams counters with a left and a right that stings Calagan.
Calagan misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Calagan tries to clinch
and Williams counters with a three punch combo that has Calagan backing up. Calagan nods at Williams to acknowledge the strikes.
Williams connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Williams moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.

Calagan scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.
Williams holds on to Calagan's head and controls the position momentarily.
Calagan working away.
Calagan fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Calagan throwing strikes but Williams manages to buck up and roll into a nice reversal - now he's on top in side control!
Calagan seems a little lost for a moment, as Williams dominates the positioning.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Remo Williams dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Calagan moves to clinch but Williams breaks away
and Williams counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Bobby Calagan is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

Williams has Calagan up against the cage in a clinch.
Williams softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Calagan misses with a punch on the inside.

Williams's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Donk. Williams catches Calagan right on the button with a cross.
Williams scores with a jab to the head.
Calagan wants to clinch but Williams slips to the side
and Williams counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Calagan tries to close the distance and clinch but Williams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Remo Williams is winning the standup battle so far.
Calagan has his takedown stuffed
enabling Williams to counter with a crisp jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Calagan moves to clinch but Williams breaks away
and Williams cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Calagan looks to clinch
and Williams connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Calagan is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Calagan tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Williams counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Williams with a jab.
A decent looking cross lands there for Williams.
Calagan wants to clinch
and Williams counters with a two punch combo.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Calagan tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Williams counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Williams lands with a cross.
Calagan gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
enabling Williams to counter with a crisp jab.
Williams's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Williams duly obliges.
Calagan shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Remo Williams has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Bobby Calagan.

Calagan gets caught napping as Williams dives in and scores a takedown. Calagan manages to retain guard.
Williams slows down the pace of the fight, as he sits in guard.
Williams seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Calagan for as long as he can get away with.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Williams working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Williams controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Williams tries to free his leg and advance position but Calagan is retaining full guard.
Calagan controlling the position.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Remo Williams wasn't doing enough on the ground.
Calagan shoots in but no luck this time.
Calagan tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Williams connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Calagan tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Williams counters with a series of strikes. Calagan will be more careful next time no doubt.
Williams lands a right hook to the body.
Calagan wants to clinch
and Williams cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Calagan gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Williams.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Calagan tries to clinch but Williams moves away
and Williams counters with a stiff right hand.
Calagan tries to clinch
and Williams counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Calagan takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Williams is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Calagan can do to turn this around?

Williams closes the distance and pushes Calagan back into the cage.
Williams drops down looking for an ankle pick but Calagan pulls his leg out and moves away.
Calagan closes the distance looking to clinch
and Williams counters with a nice uppercut.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Calagan tries to clinch but Williams moves away
and Williams counters with a straight right hand.
Williams is working the combinations to good effect here.
Williams circles away from the clinch attempt
letting Williams counter with a right hand.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Remo Williams dominated that second round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! This is the final round!

Williams jabs Calagan right on the nose. Calagan blinks but takes it well.
Williams shoots in for a takedown but Calagan shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Williams with a jab.
Williams lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Calagan is looking to clinch.
Williams dips to his left and cracks Calagan with an uppercut!
The fight stays on the outside here - Calagan looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Calagan closes the distance and clinches.
Calagan misses with the head strike.
Williams blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Calagan fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Calagan tries for a takedown but Williams manages to get underhooks.
Calagan tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Williams lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Williams breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Calagan shoots for a double leg takedown but Williams sprawls well. He's pushed Calagan's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Williams is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Williams lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Calagan closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Williams lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Calagan backs up against the cage.
Calagan tries to clinch but fails miserably
enabling Williams to counter with a crisp jab.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Calagan.
Remo Williams has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Bobby Calagan.
Calagan closes the distance looking to clinch
letting Williams counter with a right hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Calagan gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Calagan doesn't manage to clinch there - Williams circles away.
Calagan doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Calagan tries to clinch but Williams moves away

and Williams moves into the clinch.
Calagan swings wildly with an uppercut but Williams uses good head movement to avoid it.
Calagan fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Calagan misses with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Calagan.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Williams.
Williams blocking some punches.
Calagan swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Bobby Calagan has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Williams is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Calagan gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.

Williams escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Calagan wants to clinch
and Williams cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Williams throws out a powerful jab.
Calagan tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Williams manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Calagan tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Williams counters with a two punch combo.

Williams closes the distance and clinches.
Williams will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Calagan up against the cage.
Williams cracks Calagan with a nice body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Calagan misses with a punch on the inside.
Calagan misses with a punch on the inside.
Williams lands with a light punch inside.

Williams breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Calagan tries to clinch up but Williams circles away and keeps his distance.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Calagan closes the distance looking to clinch
and Williams counters with a nice uppercut.
Calagan tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Williams counters with a nice uppercut.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Calagan takes one on the button.
A decent looking cross lands there for Williams.
Calagan misses with a combination

and Williams counters with a shoot takedown. Calagan fights it but they end up in guard.

And that's the end of the fight!
Remo Williams showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Williams has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Dillan Fox scores the fight 30:27
Judge William Peck scores the fight 30:27
Judge Gregory Folan scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Remo Williams!