PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Daniel Blackburn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dell Lloyd (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lloyd is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Ashes, Ashes. Dell Lloyd struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 187.0lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Dell Lloyd is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Blackburn
vs
Lloyd

177 cm
25
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
23
200 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Daniel Blackburn!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Dell Lloyd!
The judges for this bout are Columbo Gatti, Chad Campbell and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Blackburn has closed the distance and engaged Lloyd in a clinch.
Blackburn lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Lloyd pushes off an throws an elbow but Blackburn leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Blackburn softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Blackburn avoiding damage as Lloyd throws knees to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Blackburn creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.

It looks like Dell Lloyd has been cut.
Lloyd misses with a knee strike.
Blackburn creates some distance for himselfand unleashes a massive uppercut that sends Lloyd's eyes rolling into the back of his head! Lloyd drops to his knees and Blackburn pours it on with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Daniel Blackburn!