PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dolph Mercury (ranked 3668 p4p, 1919 weight class) and Saidou Toure (ranked 453 p4p, 0 weight class). Saidou Toure has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Mercury
vs
Toure

181 cm
25
220
2 - 0 - 0

192 cm
25
216
4 - 0 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
Prefers standup

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Brooklyn Apothecary

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Dolph Mercury!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Saidou Toure!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Colin Fotheringham and Donald Grub.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Toure throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Toure misses with a wild body shot.
Saidou Toure seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Toure tries to clinch but Mercury is having none of it.
Toure throws out a powerful jab.
Toure is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Mercury takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Mercury gets cracked there but stands up to it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Mercury throws a hook but Toure blocks it.
Toure lands a nice looking body shot.
Toure is looking to clinch.
Mercury circles away from the clinch attempt
and Mercury counters with a nice uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The fighters circling - Toure throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Mercury was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Mercury misses with a straight left.
Toure just misses with a punch to the body.
It looked like Mercury wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Mercury slips a jab from Toure.
Mercury is looking to counter punch.

Mercury gets tackled into the cage by Toure. Toure maintains the clinch.
Mercury blocking some punches.
Mercury blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Mercury blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Toure working aggressively here.
Toure letting Mercury take a breather here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mercury blocking some punches.
Toure lands a body shot.
Mercury working aggressively here.
Toure gets through Mercury's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Toure lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Toure throws a punch but it's blocked by Mercury.
Toure lands with a light punch inside.
Toure lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Toure swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Mercury is pushing Toure up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Mercury.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Toure has a couple of punches blocked by Mercury.
A short uppercut from Toure.
Toure doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
A nice left hand lands by Toure.
Toure swings wildly with an uppercut but Mercury uses good head movement to avoid it.
Toure stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
A shot in the inside from Toure.

Mercury is rocked!
Toure blocks an elbow strike.
Toure lands a shot to the body.
Toure tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Toure throws a head punch that misses.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mercury just misses with a elbow thrown towards Toure's brow.
Toure tries a body shot but Mercury blocks it.
Toure pushes Mercury back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Toure lands a right hand.
Oh Mercury is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Toure lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Toure misses with a body punch.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Toure tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Mercury's elbow.
Toure blocks an elbow strike.
Mercury seems to have got his legs back now.
Toure swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Mercury misses with some punches.
Toure throws a punch but it's blocked by Mercury.
Mercury lands an elbow inside that Toure shrugs off.
Toure avoids a wild elbow strike from Mercury.
Mercury pushes off an throws an elbow but Toure leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Toure goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Mercury.
Mercury wants to stall.
We've been informed that Toure has been working hard on his conditioning in the buildup to the fight.
Mercury displaying some good clinch control by pressing Toure up against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Saidou Toure dominated that round.
That's time! Mercury's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Toure clinches.
Toure lands a nice uppercut.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Toure creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Saidou Toure seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Mercury stalling in the clinch but Toure improves position.
Toure lands a shot to the body.
Mercury misses with an elbow over the top.
Toure misses with a hook to the ribs.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Toure tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Toure working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Toure lands a nice uppercut.
Toure blocks the elbow strike.
Mercury is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Toure works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Mercury throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Toure can't find room to land a body shot as Mercury controls the action.
Toure lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Toure fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Toure gets through Mercury's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mercury.
Toure blocks an elbow strike from Mercury.
Toure misses with a hook to the ribs.
Toure lands a hook that snaps the head of Mercury backwards.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mercury throws an elbow but misses.
Mercury blocking some punches.
Toure tries to throw a body punch but Mercury avoids it by throwing Toure back against the cage.
Toure lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Toure lands a big right hand that drops Mercury! The killer instinct kicks in and Toure finishes his opponent with a series of strikes from mount. A dominating finish by Toure!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:12 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Saidou Toure!