PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Cathal O Doherty (ranked 2566 p4p, 2904 weight class) and Phil Rivers (ranked 215 p4p, 235 weight class). Rivers has chosen RUNNING IN THE 90’s as his entrance music. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

O Doherty
vs
Rivers

172 cm
29
150
9 - 6 - 0

177 cm
29
155
14 - 11 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Great elbows
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Cathal O Doherty!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Phil Rivers!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Fedor Mirinova and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rivers misses with a left hand
and O Doherty counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Rivers connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between O Doherty's hands.
O Doherty takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
O Doherty bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Rivers fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Rivers throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Rivers needs to keep his hands up - O Doherty had a free shot at his head there.
Rivers looks to throw the jab but O Doherty is out of range.
A quick step to the side and O Doherty tries to counter with a shot to the body but it doesn't connect.
O Doherty moves out of range of the strikes.
O Doherty swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Rivers ducks down and throws a hook to the body but O Doherty moves away.
Rivers scores with the left hand. O Doherty knows he should have avoided that one.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
O Doherty drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Rivers lands with a cross.
O Doherty slips a straight right by Rivers.
A counter left hand to the body from O Doherty misses its target.
Rivers tries to bum rush O Doherty with a series of wild strikes but O Doherty uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Rivers might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Rivers swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and O Doherty counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Rivers misses with a telegraphed body shot
and O Doherty cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
O Doherty throws the kick towards the body but Rivers avoids it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rivers closes the distance looking to clinch
and O Doherty counters with a lovely shot to the body.
O Doherty lands a nice shot to the body.
Rivers missing with a left hand there. O Doherty was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Rivers uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by O Doherty.
Good exchange - Rivers coming out on top.
Rivers misses with a looping left.
Rivers fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
O Doherty lands an uppercut out of nowhere! Rivers falls backwards - clearly groggy! O Doherty dives in and finishes the fight with more strikes for a TKO finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Cathal O Doherty!