PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marco Marcolini (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harlan Crowe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Marcolini comes to the cage accompanied by Raffaella Carra - Rumore. Crowe has chosen Irigy Hónaljmirigy - Rúgj Chuck Norris (Chuck Norris parody by Hungarians) as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Marcolini
vs
Crowe

185 cm
39
259 lbs
31 - 22 - 0

185 cm
31
282 lbs
21 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Dangerous knees
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

GREEN!160
Spartan Nutrition

V-Mask Clothing (10%)
Spartan Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 31 - 22 - 0, fighting out of London, Marco Marcolini!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 12 - 0, fighting out of London, Harlan Crowe!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, William Gold and Phil Schofield.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Crowe misses with a hook.
Marcolini will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Crowe connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Crowe throws a sloppy head kick and Marcolini moves out of range easily.

Crowe clinches up against the cage.
Crowe lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Marcolini using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Crowe has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Crowe swings wildly with an uppercut but Marcolini uses good head movement to avoid it.
Marcolini tries to land knees in the clinch but Crowe avoids the damage to the body.
Stalling in the clinch from Marcolini.
Marcolini tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Crowe avoids it.
Crowe managing to block the knees to the body from Marcolini.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Crowe.

Crowe manages to pull guard.
Crowe bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Marcolini's guard.

Crowe throws a big right hand that misses.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Marcolini is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Crowe lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Crowe passes Marcolini's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Marcolini is pressing down on Crowe's left leg trying to get back to full guard. He's managed it.
Crowe postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.

Marcolini is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Crowe trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Crowe tries to free his leg and advance position but Marcolini is retaining full guard.
Crowe with a nice head shot there.
Crowe stands and throws Marcolini's legs to the side, diving into side control.
Marcolini stops Crowe from passing to mount.

Crowe working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Marcolini is looking for a sweep.
Crowe working the head with strikes.
Crowe trying to control the position but Marcolini is working away.

Crowe is trying to get an arm triangle but Marcolini is defending well.
Crowe landing a few strikes.
Marcolini is looking to reverse the position.
Crowe in side control lands a decent elbow.
Crowe lands an elbow.
Crowe has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Crowe in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Marcolini bucks up and tries to throw Crowe off but instead Crowe has got his back!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Marcolini is displaying good submission defense - not really looking in danger of submitting to the rear naked choke at the moment. That could change in an instant of course if Crowe gets his way!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
You can see the frustration on Marcolini's face… He knows he is in trouble unless he improves his position sooner rather than later.
Marcolini breaks Crowe's hooks off and manages to turn into his guard.
Marcolini landing with the ground and pound.
Marcolini in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Marcolini working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Marcolini stopping the sweep attempt from Crowe.
Crowe working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Marcolini.
Marcolini looks to be in better condition than last time we saw him fight. Obviously he's been working hard on his cardio.
Crowe keeping moving, preventing Marcolini from controlling successfully.
Crowe bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Marcolini's guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Marcolini controls Crowe momentarily but Crowe frees himself.
Crowe sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Marcolini's guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Crowe has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Crowe scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Marcolini?
Crowe postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Marcolini looks a forlorn figure.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Marcolini is desperately trying to improve his position but Crowe has a good base and remains in mount.
Crowe scoring with strikes but Marcolini is staying in there.
Crowe in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Crowe postures up and throws a massive shot that knocks Marcolini out cold! Two more strikes to his unconscious opponent for good luck and this one is all over! Crowe goes absolutely crazy with his corner! Wow, you can see how much that win means to him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Harlan Crowe!
Harlan Crowe very nearly forgot to thank V-Mask Clothing (10%) amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.