PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Benny Maxine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nate Miller (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Maxine
vs
Miller

174 cm
22
158 lbs
5 - 5 - 0

165 cm
21
140 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Good chin

Good wrestler
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Benny Maxine!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Nate Miller!
The judges for this bout are Sandra Marshall, Peter Branson and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Maxine.

Miller looking to score a takedown here. Maxine is defending well but Miller drives through and ends up in Maxine's guard.

Maxine has his feet on Miller's hips. He pushes off and gets to his feet. Nice work.
Maxine leaves Miller with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.

Maxine pushes Miller up against the cage in a clinch.

Maxine breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Miller shoots in but Maxine avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Maxine feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Miller's calf.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Miller goes for a double leg but Maxine avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Maxine continues to drive forward.
Benny Maxine has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Nate Miller.

Maxine rushes Miller and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Maxine is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.

Maxine manages to break the clinch.
Maxine connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

Maxine darts in and clinches Miller up against the cage.
Maxine gets through Miller's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maxine using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Miller looks winded!
A nice glancing elbow lands by Maxine.
Maxine has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Maxine with a knee to the head.

It looks like Nate Miller has been cut.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Maxine.
Maxine is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
Maxine displaying some good clinch control by pressing Miller up against the cage.
Maxine just leaning against Miller, taking a breather.
Maxine stops a takedown attempt from Miller.
Maxine gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Maxine creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Miller's defenses.
Maxine lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Maxine stalling in the clinch.
Maxine taking a breather.
Maxine unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Maxine landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Maxine with a knee to the head.
Maxine lands a knee to the body.
Maxine lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
A knee to the head by Maxine.

That has opened up Nate Miller's cut even more.
A knee to the head by Maxine.
Maxine displaying some good clinch control by pressing Miller up against the cage.
Maxine landing knees to the body.
Maxine gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Maxine lands a nice elbow.
Maxine lands a knee to the head.

Maxine breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Nate Miller seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Miller wants to stay close but Maxine steps back to make room for something. Miller seems frozen to the spot and bam! huge swing of the leg from Maxine and Miller drops like he has been shot! A huge head kick and it's all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Benny Maxine!
During a confident post fight interview, Benny Maxine thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.