PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marcus St Stone (ranked 23084 p4p, 196 weight class) and Abdul Wasak (ranked 23408 p4p, 199 weight class). Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

St Stone
vs
Wasak

196 cm
20
282 lbs
3 - 7 - 0

220 cm
27
300 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Experienced

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Intelligent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Marcus St Stone!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Abdul Wasak!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Skip Squint and Darius Henderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

St Stone instigates a clinch.
Still in the clinch, Wasak scores with a nice short uppercut.
St Stone lands an elbow that stopped Wasak in his tracks for a moment.

It looks like Abdul Wasak has been cut.
St Stone tries to land a knee to the head but Wasak blocks with his arms.
St Stone lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Our sources have told us that St Stone has been working on his elbows in the gym.
St Stone trying to land knees to the body.
Wasak managing to block the knees to the body from St Stone.
Wasak swings wildly with an uppercut but St Stone uses good head movement to avoid it.
Wasak blocks an elbow strike.
Wasak working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
St Stone misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Wasak.
Wasak is trying to break the clinch but St Stone has him pressed against the cage.
St Stone pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
St Stone landing knees to the body.
Wasak blocks the elbow strike.
St Stone trying to control the position but instead, Wasak has worked for underhooks and has pushed St Stone into the cage.
St Stone pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
St Stone lands an elbow just above Wasak 's eye.
St Stone lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
St Stone looking to throw knees to the head but Wasak is blocking nicely.

Wasak has picked St Stone up - he's going for a ride! Wasak dumps his opponent to the mat with a thud and settles into half guard.
Wasak sitting and controlling from the half guard.
St Stone regains full guard. Nicely done.
Wasak looking to sit in guard and control but St Stone gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Wasak can't keep his opponent in guard - St Stone advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.

St Stone seems to be working for a kimura but Wasak defends the submission attempt.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

St Stone is trying for a guillotine from the top but the pressure isn't in the right place so Wasak is just riding it out for now. St Stone eventually gives up the hold.
Wasak really doesn't want to stay on the ground with St Stone. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

St Stone is trying for a kimura here. Wasak looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! St Stone wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Marcus St Stone!
After the fight, Marcus St Stone was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.