PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kip Morgan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Smith (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Smith has chosen Ready for War as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Morgan
vs
Smith

175 cm
27
158 lbs
14 - 7 - 0

150 cm
25
145 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Insanely flexible

Good takedowns
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Kip Morgan!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Daniel Smith!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Trevor Gratis and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morgan lands a high kick!
Smith with a poor takedown

and Morgan counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Morgan.
Smith wants a takedown.
Morgan lands a nice knee to the body.
Smith should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Smith looks winded!

Smith has managed to pull guard. Let's see whether he can work an aggressive guard. It will also be interesting to see what tactics Morgan uses from the top position.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Morgan pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Smith is keeping the position for now.
Morgan keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Smith's head.

Morgan drops back looking for a leg! Smith is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Smith manages to kick Morgan off! Morgan jumps back into Smith's guard.

Morgan stands up from Smith's guard - Morgan perhaps looking for a knockout.

Morgan clinches up against the cage.
Morgan lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

It looks like Daniel Smith has been cut.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Morgan.
Morgan lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

That's one minute gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Morgan.
Morgan lands a good knee to the midsection. Smith won't want to take too many of those.
Morgan connects with a knee to the head.

Smith is rocked!

Morgan manages to break the clinch.

Morgan cracks Smith with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Smith looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Morgan finish him?
Smith is still on wobbly legs! Can Morgan finish him?
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Smith gets hit by the mother of all head kicks and drops to the canvas in a crumpled heap! Woooow, the Internet is going to be talking about this one for weeks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Kip Morgan!
Kip Morgan retains his featherweight title!
After winning the bout, Kip Morgan thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.