PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jimmy Nickels (ranked 3100 p4p, 1711 weight class) and Cole Watts (ranked 360 p4p, 209 weight class). Watts comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Shook Ones - By: Mobb Deep kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Nickels
vs
Watts

190 cm
40
245
17 - 12 - 0

194 cm
31
285
8 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Granite chin

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Powerful

Vegan Gains

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 17 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jimmy Nickels!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Cole Watts!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Shigeki Sano.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Watts gets tackled into the ropes by Nickels. Nickels maintains the clinch.
Nickels tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Nickels lands a hook that snaps the head of Watts backwards.
Nickels misses with a punch on the inside.
Watts tries to break free but Nickels pushes him back against the ropes.
Nickels misses with some punches.
A head punch on the inside from Nickels fails to land.
Watts blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Watts blocking some punches.
Watts misses with some punches.
Nickels takes a shot to the head.
Nickels misses with some punches.

Watts breaks the clinch.

Nickels pushes Watts up against the ropes in a clinch.

Watts breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Watts looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nickels thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Watts's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Nickels keeping busy, throwing shots from the bottom.
Nickels thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Watts's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Watts landing with the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nickels wants to sweep but no luck.
Nickels throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.
Watts tries to free his leg and advance position but Nickels is retaining full guard.
Nickels wants to sweep here but Watts controlling him for the moment.
Watts in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Nickels striking off his back.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Watts landing some decent shots from guard.
Watts trying to control the position from guard on top but Nickels is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Nickels thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Nickels throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Nickels trying to strike off his back.
Watts lands a couple of digs.
Nickels doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Nickels looking to hit a scissor sweep but Watts is one step ahead there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Watts scoring with punches to the head and body.
Watts works over Nickels with some ground and pound from guard.
Nickels doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Nickels trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Watts's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Watts lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Watts landing some decent shots from guard.
Watts keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Nickels's head.
Watts has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Watts landing some decent shots from guard.
Nickels doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Watts arches his back and unloads with a massive left and a right! Nickels's eyes roll back into his head, he's out cold! The ref dives in to stop the fight - wow, they were hard shots!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Cole Watts!
A very excited looking Cole Watts rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.