PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Graham Briggs (ranked 4459 p4p, 2961 weight class) and Jugo Fury (ranked 528 p4p, 402 weight class). Fury has chosen Pigface by Greyhoundz as his entrance music. Jugo Fury has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Briggs
vs
Fury

200 cm
25
208
0 - 0 - 0

191 cm
25
205
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Big heart

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Experienced

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Graham Briggs!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jugo Fury!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Ben Zyskovitsi and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Briggs wants to clinch.
Fury misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

Fury scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Fury scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Briggs to see if he's OK.
Briggs tries to buck Fury off but Fury is having none of it.
Fury lands a decent elbow from side control.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Briggs can't do much from the bottom here.
Briggs takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Briggs is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Briggs tries to control but Fury manages to take his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.
I really don't envy Briggs right now.
Fury is working the ground and pound. Can Briggs escape?
Fury scores with some strikes to the side of the head there. Good, points scoring shots.

Briggs is rocked!
Fury has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Briggs is breathing heavily.
Fury softening up his opponent with strikes here.
Oh Briggs is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Fury biding his time, controlling Briggs.
Fury is scoring with a succession of shots from the back. Briggs is covering up - he's had enough and the ref steps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jugo Fury!
A very excited looking Jugo Fury 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.