PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jonathan Jones (ranked 25292 p4p, 5740 weight class) and Frank Heinz (ranked 752 p4p, 0 weight class). Jones's entrance music is God Gave Me Style. A fine choice. Jonathan Jones has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Jones
vs
Heinz

193 cm
18
205
4 - 2 - 0

188 cm
25
210
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

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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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jonathan Jones!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Frank Heinz!
The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, Dean Styles and Lou da Vinci.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Heinz digs a good body shot into Jones's ribs.

Jones shoots in and bounces Heinz off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Jones trying to control but Heinz is working from the bottom.
Jones stopping the sweep attempt from Heinz.
Jones wants to control from the top but Heinz keeps moving.
Jones throws a big right hand that misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Heinz avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Heinz is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Jones missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jones trying to control but Heinz is working from the bottom.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Jones accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
Jones takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Heinz thuds a left hand into Jones's body.
We've been hearing reports that Jones has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Heinz feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Joness jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Frank Heinz is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
The crowd cheers as Heinz lands an impressive looking overhand right. Jones doesn't seem phased though.
Heinz stuffs the takedown attempt from Jones. Jones gets slowly back to his feet.
Jones tries to close the distance and clinch but Heinz swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Heinz lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Heinz lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Jones is breathing heavily.
Heinz wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.

Heinz cracks Jones with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Jones looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Heinz finish him?

Jones is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Heinz measures up his opponent and throws a superman punch that connects to the jaw! Down goes Jones! The ref steps in, and that's the ball game folks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). Frank Heinz!
A relieved looking Frank Heinz thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
The defeated Jonathan Jones had this to say: 'Failure is what you may need to eventually succeed'.