PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Fat Tire (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yuran Franco (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). On his way into the cage it seems that Fat Tire has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Fat Tire seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Tire
vs
Franco

180 cm
19
190 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

185 cm
18
186 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
KO power

Dangerous GnP
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 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Fat Tire!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Yuran Franco!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Phil Schofield and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Tire rushes Franco and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.

Tire breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Tire missing with a left hand there. Franco was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Franco with the counter takedown but Tire avoids it easily.

Tire forces Franco back against the cage and clinches.

Tire pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Tire closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.

Tire decides to take the fight back to the feet.

Tire closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.

Tire breaks from the clinch.
Tire misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Tire breaks from the clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Tire looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tire throws a nice looking combination but Franco bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Franco is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.

Tire gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Tire escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Tire forces Franco back against the cage and clinches.
Tire is pressed up against the cage. Franco has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Tire down to the mat. Tire avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.

Tire has managed to clinch.
Tire stops a takedown attempt from Franco.
Tire wants to break the clinch but can't.
We've been informed that Franco has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.

Tire pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Tire misses with a hook.

Tire moves into the clinch.
Franco has Tire pressed against the cage, preventing Tire from circling away and getting back to striking at range.

Tire pulls guard effortlessly.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tire has Franco pulled in close to control his posture.
Franco with a flurry of punches that miss.
Franco working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Tire's head.
Franco working some strikes from top position.
Tire is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Franco accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Tire seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Franco won't allow Tire to get back to his feet.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!
Tire is breathing heavily.
Franco working some strikes from top position.
Franco won't allow Tire to get back to his feet.
Franco is in close to Tire's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Franco is looking to work some ground and pound but Tire has wrist control.
Tire knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Franco on the ground.
Franco working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Franco makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Tire is adopting a defensive guard.
Franco works over Tire with some ground and pound from guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Franco is working Tire over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Franco cracks Tire with a solid left hand.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Franco's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Tire controlling the position.
Tire wants to stand and escape but Franco is having none of it.
Franco lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Franco working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Franco content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Franco postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Franco cracks Tire with a solid left hand.
Franco makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Franco lands a couple of elbows.

Tire is rocked!
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Franco chips away with some ground and pound.
Oh Tire is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Franco scoring with some ground and pound.
Franco scoring with some ground and pound.
Franco loads up on a big left hand. Tire felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Franco looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! Tire can't hide his disappointment, as Franco celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yuran Franco!