PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Alex Hoskins (ranked 3410 p4p, 340 weight class) and Jorge Garcia (ranked 4463 p4p, 431 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Hoskins
vs
Garcia

172 cm
19
162 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

169 cm
19
165 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Red Light Coffeeshop

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 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Alex Hoskins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jorge Garcia!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Alyssa Summers and Franklyn Lucas.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Garcia takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Hoskins swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Alex Hoskins seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A looping hook to the body misses from Garcia. Hoskins does a little dance to reset his feet.

Hoskins clinches.
Garcia looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Garcia lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Hoskins lands a right hand.
Garcia lands an uppercut.
A frustrated look appears on Garcia's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Garcia blocking some punches.
Hoskins tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Garcia's elbow.
Garcia lands with a right to the head.
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Hoskins misses with a hook from the clinch.
Hoskins swings wildly with an uppercut but Garcia uses good head movement to avoid it.
Hoskins keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Garcia's efforts to push away.

Garcia manages to break the clinch.
Hoskins slips a straight right by Garcia.
Hoskins throws a poor cross that misses
and Garcia counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hoskins tries to close the distance and clinch up but Garcia swats him away and circles back towards the center.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia misses with a straight right.
Hoskins slips under a jab.
Hoskins throwing a counter right hand but Garcia manages to avoid it.
Hoskins ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Hoskins ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Garcia takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Hoskins scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Garcia jabs Hoskins to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Garcia throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Hoskins wants to clinch
and Garcia counters with a nice uppercut.
Hoskins ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Garcia pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Garcia bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Garcia looks to throw the jab but Hoskins is out of range.
Garcia fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Hoskins takes a swing at Garcia's ribcage but misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hoskins throws a hook to the side of Garcia's head but Garcia sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Garcia takes one on the chin but seems OK.
A slow jab from Hoskins misses its intended target.
Hoskins ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
A slow jab from Garcia misses its intended target.
Hoskins tries to move into range but Garcia moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Hoskins throws a poor cross that misses
letting Garcia counter with a right hand.
Garcia throws the left hand but Hoskins avoids the punch easily.
Hoskins tries to clinch there but Garcia circles away.
The fighters circling - Hoskins throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Garcia scores with a body shot.
Garcia throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Garcia swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Garcia throws a shot to the body.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Hoskins, as that shot connected.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hoskins scores with a jab.
Hoskins lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Garcia swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Hoskins tries to counter by clinching up but Garcia breaks away and moves out of range.
Garcia lands a head shot.
Hoskins throws a right hand that misses
enabling Garcia to counter with a crisp jab.
Hoskins throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Garcia counters with a three punch combo that has Hoskins backing up. Hoskins nods at Garcia to acknowledge the strikes.
Hoskins with a jab.
A big right from Garcia misses.
Garcia throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
A shot to the body from Hoskins misses
and Garcia counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hoskins lands a nice looking body shot.

Hoskins moves into the clinch.
Hoskins has a couple of punches blocked by Garcia.
Hoskins misses with a body punch.
Hoskins lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Garcia.
Hoskins managing to block the knees to the body from Garcia.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hoskins tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Nice body punch from Hoskins - that landed with a thud.

Garcia pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Hoskins slips a straight right by Garcia.
Garcia takes a swing at Hoskins's ribcage but misses.

Hoskins gets a clinch.
Garcia blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Garcia swings wildly with an uppercut but Hoskins uses good head movement to avoid it.
Garcia lands a hook that snaps the head of Hoskins backwards.
A short right from Garcia.
Hoskins misses with some punches.
Garcia throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Still in the clinch, Hoskins scores with a nice short uppercut.
Hoskins keeps control of Garcia as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
A frustrated look appears on Garcia's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Hoskins works on Garcia's body with a couple of short punches.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Jorge Garcia will probably get the nod.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Garcia fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Hoskins checks it well.
Hoskins throws a poor cross that misses
and Garcia counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Garcia circles away from the clinch attempt
and Garcia counters with a stiff right hand.
Garcia moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.

Hoskins gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Hoskins blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Garcia scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Hoskins throws a punch but it's blocked by Garcia.
Hoskins makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Hoskins blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Garcia blocks an uppercut.
Hoskins can't find room to land a body shot as Garcia controls the action.
Garcia misses with the head strike.
Garcia lands a nice uppercut.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Hoskins.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hoskins is leaning against Garcia and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia misses with some punches.
Hoskins tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Garcia working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Garcia wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Garcia working hard to break the clinch.
Garcia wants to get back to striking at distance but Hoskins won't allow it.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Hoskins working aggressively here.
Hoskins tries to work over Garcia's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Garcia prevents a body shot from Hoskins.
Garcia is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Hoskins working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
A body shot lands from Hoskins.
Hoskins fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Hoskins misses with a short punch on the inside.
Hoskins lands on the inside with an uppercut.
I was talking to Hoskins's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Hoskins scores with a hook to the body.
A right hook to the body lands for Hoskins.
Garcia is breathing heavily.
A nice left hand lands by Hoskins.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Garcia is trying to push Hoskins away but Hoskins has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Hoskins throws a head punch that misses.
Alex Hoskins has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Hoskins throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Garcias head.
Garcia takes a shot to the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hoskins goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Hoskins has a couple of punches blocked by Garcia.
Garcia lands a right hand.
Garcia blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Garcia struggles to land a body shot inside as Hoskins controls his hands.
Garcia wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Garcia blocking some punches.
Garcia lands a left hand.
Garcia is trying to break the clinch but Hoskins is controlling him.
Hoskins is working Garcia over against the cage.
Hoskins misses with the head strike.
Garcia tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Hoskins's elbow.
Hoskins misses with a hook to the ribs.
Hoskins working aggressively here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Garcia is trying to force a seperation but Hoskins has the dominant position.
Hoskins lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Garcia misses with a hook from the clinch.
Hoskins lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Garcia prevents a body shot from Hoskins.
Hoskins pushes Garcia back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Garcia wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Hoskins lands a right hand that snaps the head of Garcia backwards.
Nice body punch from Hoskins - that landed with a thud.
Hoskins lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Garcia blocks a body shot from Hoskins.
Hoskins misses with a punch on the inside.
Garcia is trying to force a seperation but Hoskins has the dominant position.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Garcia.
Hoskins blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Hoskins swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hoskins makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Garcia looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Garcia blocks an uppercut.
Garcia wants to break free but Hoskins has control.
Garcia prevents a body shot from Hoskins.
Hoskins makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Garcia lands a shoulder strike.
Hoskins lands a right hand that snaps the head of Garcia backwards.

Garcia is rocked!
Hoskins unloads with a big right hand that wobbles Garcia! He's leaning against the cage trying to keep his feet but Hoskins is unloading with more strikes now! Garcia drops to his knees and the referee stops the fight for a TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:30 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alex Hoskins!
Alex Hoskins decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.