PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Dominic Fortune (ranked 1006 p4p, 111 weight class) and Heng Jiang (ranked 1663 p4p, 167 weight class). Jiang is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Volbeat - A Warrior's Call. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Fortune
vs
Jiang

170 cm
32
160 lbs
21 - 7 - 0

174 cm
27
161 lbs
12 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

RAGS of a RONIN

Pit Bull Development
RAGS of a RONIN

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 21 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Dominic Fortune!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Heng Jiang!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Konstantin Menshow and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Fortune closes the distance and clinches.
Fortune takes a shot to the head.
Jiang lands a damaging elbow.
Fortune lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.

Fortune breaks the clinch.
Fortune is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.

It looks like Heng Jiang has been cut.
A combination from Fortune does no damage.
Fortune misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Fortune throws a low kick but Jiang avoids it.
Jiang defending well as Fortune loads up on a big left hand.
Fortune has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Jiang.

Fortune moves into the clinch successfully.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Jiang creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Jiang creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Jiang lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Fortune has a couple of punches blocked by Jiang.
Jiang throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
I was talking to Fortune's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fortune scores with a shoulder strike.
Jiang tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Jiang tries to land knees in the clinch but Fortune avoids the damage to the body.

Fortune pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Fortune throws a big shot that misses.
Fortune checks the leg kick nicely there.
Jiang displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Fortune throws out the jab.
Jiang only half commits to the counter leg kick.
Jiang lands with a nice body kick.
Jiang throws a lazy right hand but Fortune sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Jiang blocks a jab.
Jiang tries a quick counter leg kick but Fortune is wise to it.
Fortune misses with a head kick.
Fortune uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Jiang.
Fortune checks a low kick from Jiang.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fortune lands a high kick!

Jiang moves into the clinch.
Jiang using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jiang lands a left hand.
Fortune tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Jiang misses with some punches.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Jiang just misses with a elbow thrown towards Fortune's brow.
Fortune misses with a hook from the clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Fortune.
A short left from Fortune.
Fortune scores with a shot to the side of Jiang's head.
Fortune blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Jiang trying to land knees to the body.
A head punch on the inside from Jiang fails to land.
Jiang lands an elbow that stopped Fortune in his tracks for a moment.
Fortune swings wildly with an uppercut but Jiang uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jiang pushes off an throws an elbow but Fortune leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A head punch on the inside from Fortune fails to land.
Jiang keeps control of Fortune as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
A short uppercut from Fortune.

Fortune manages to break the clinch.
Jiang slips a jab from Fortune.
Fortune misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Jiang appeared to try and counter that last move with a leg kick.
Jiang lands a really nice looking cross but Fortune seems unphased.

Jiang rushes Fortune and presses him up against the cage.
Fortune blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Jiang missing with knees to the body.
A body shot lands from Fortune.
Fortune lands a body punch.
Jiang has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. Fortune seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if Jiang can turn it around.
Fortune scores with an uppercut up the middle.

Fortune breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Fortune misses with a few strikes there.
Jiang tries to work over Fortune's front leg with a kick but Fortune checks it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Jiang misses with a hook.
Fortune half commits to a counter takedown before pushing away, out of range.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jiang fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Fortune.
Fortune tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Jiang paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Jiang takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Fortune slips a straight right by Jiang.
Jiang takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
Fortune smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Fortune looks to land a left hand but Jiang moved out of range nicely.
Fortune steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Jiang.
Jiang is sent reeling backwards by a solid uppercut. He barely regains his balance and Fortune moves in for the kill throwing a continuous barrage of punches that force the ref to step in.

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