PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Robb Spewak (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Spewak comes to the cage accompanied by The German National Anthem. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Spewak
vs
Johnson

180 cm
24
170 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

186 cm
22
174 lbs
10 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Robb Spewak!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, John Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Seu Braga and Edson Gomes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Johnson rushes Spewak and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Spewak landing knees to the body.
Johnson lands an elbow inside that Spewak shrugs off.

It looks like Robb Spewak has been cut.
Spewak blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Spewak tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Spewak missing with knees to the body.
Spewak throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Johnson blocks an uppercut.
Spewak blocks an elbow strike from Johnson.
Spewak tries a knee to the head but Johnson blocks it.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Johnson.
With the fighters up against the cage, Johnson throws an elbow but misses.
Spewak misses with a punch on the inside.
Johnson gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Johnson throws an elbow but misses.
The referee calls for Johnson to work.
Spewak misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Johnson.
Johnson tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Spewak avoids it.
Johnson misses with a knee strike.
Spewak lands with a left to the head.
Johnson lands a body shot.
Spewak lands an elbow that stopped Johnson in his tracks for a moment.
Spewak digs a right hand into Johnson's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Johnson's gas tank.
A hook to the body from Spewak.
Spewak takes an elbow to the temple.
Nice elbow from Johnson.
Spewak misses with a punch on the inside.
Spewak misses with a hook to the ribs.
Johnson blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Nice elbow from Johnson.
Johnson throws an elbow but it's blocked.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson lands a nice elbow.
Spewak scores with a shot to the side of Johnson's head.
Johnson creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Spewak's defenses.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Spewak avoids a wild elbow strike from Johnson.
Johnson gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Johnson throws an elbow but it misses.
Spewak takes an elbow to the forehead.

Robb Spewak's cut is getting worse.
Spewak lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Johnson tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Spewak lands a nice shot to the body.
Johnson misses with a body punch.
Spewak lands a nice uppercut.
Spewak tries a knee to the head but Johnson blocks it.
Spewak lands an elbow that stopped Johnson in his tracks for a moment.
Spewak with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Spewak works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Nice elbow from Johnson.
Johnson just leaning against Spewak, taking a breather.
Spewak can't find room to land a body shot as Johnson controls the action.
Spewak dodges an elbow strike from Johnson.
Johnson throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Spewak blocks it with crossed arms.
Spewak scores with a hook to the body.
Johnson looks gassed!
Spewak lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Johnson managing to block the knees to the body from Spewak.
Spewak lands a nice uppercut.
Johnson lands an elbow inside.
Johnson misses with a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Spewak takes an elbow to the forehead.
Spewak lands a body shot.
Spewak blocks an elbow strike.
Johnson blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Johnson looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Johnson lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
A head punch on the inside from Johnson fails to land.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Johnson just misses with a elbow thrown towards Spewak's brow.
A left hand lands to the body for Spewak.
Johnson looking to throw knees to the head but Spewak is blocking nicely.
Johnson lands a damaging elbow.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Spewak tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Spewak lands a body punch.
Spewak lands with a short punch from the clinch.
A right hand to the body from Spewak.
Spewak swings wildly with an uppercut but Johnson uses good head movement to avoid it.
Johnson using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Spewak has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Spewak lands a body shot in the clinch.
Spewak lands a nice elbow.
Johnson blocks an elbow strike.
Spewak pushes Johnson back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Spewak scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A nice left hand lands by Spewak.
Spewak softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Johnson trying to land knees to the body.
Johnson misses with a knee strike.
Johnson's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Johnson misses with an elbow over the top.
Spewak blocks an elbow strike from Johnson.
Spewak with a knee to the head.
Spewak misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Johnson.
Spewak misses with some punches.
Johnson pushes off an throws an elbow but Spewak leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Johnson throws an elbow that misses.
A short uppercut from Spewak.
Johnson gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Johnson throws an elbow but misses.
Spewak misses with a knee to the head.
Spewak fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Spewak blocks an elbow strike.
Johnson tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Spewak lands a right hand that snaps the head of Johnson backwards.
Johnson lands an elbow inside that Spewak shrugs off.
Johnson is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Spewak is keeping busy.
Spewak tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Johnson avoids it.
Johnson pushes off an throws an elbow but Spewak leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Johnson takes a knee to the side of the body.
Johnson lands with a left to the head.
Spewak using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Johnson has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Johnson creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Spewak scores a nice knee to the body.
Spewak gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Spewak throws a knee to the head but misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Spewak fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Spewak with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Johnson throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Spewak looking to throw knees to the head but Johnson is blocking nicely.
Spewak avoids the elbow strike from Johnson, against the cage.
Johnson trying to control the position but instead, Spewak has worked for underhooks and has pushed Johnson into the cage.
Spewak lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Spewak looking to throw knees to the head but Johnson is blocking nicely.
Nice elbow from Johnson.
Johnson blocks the elbow strike.
Spewak avoids the elbow strike from Johnson, against the cage.
A left hand lands to the body for Spewak.
Spewak lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Spewak misses with a short punch on the inside.
Johnson blocks an elbow strike from Spewak.
Spewak tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Johnson pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Spewak misses with an elbow over the top.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Johnson on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Johnson creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Spewak's defenses.
Johnson throws an elbow but it misses.
Spewak works on Johnson's body with a couple of short punches.
Spewak blocks the elbow strike.
Nice body punch from Spewak.
Johnson pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Robb Spewak will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Robb Spewak's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Johnson doesn't manage to clinch there - Spewak circles away.
Spewak throws a low kick but it's checked well by Johnson.
John Johnson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Spewak throws a wild body kick that Johnson sees coming a mile off.
Johnson throws a sloppy head kick and Spewak moves out of range easily.
Johnson tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Johnson tries to clinch up.
Johnson throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Spewak's head.
No joy there for Spewak, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Johnson takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Spewak swinging wilding here.
Good work by Spewak as he checks the leg kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson blocks a head kick by Spewak.
Johnson just misses with a punch to the body.
Johnson tries to clinch there but Spewak circles away.
Johnson tries to clinch there but Spewak circles away.
Spewak takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Spewak takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Johnson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Johnson avoids a kick to the body.
Johnson tries to clinch but Spewak is having none of it.
Spewak avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Spewak.
Johnson throws a lazy head kick
and Spewak counters with a straight right hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johnson scores with a nice body kick.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Spewak scores with a nice head shot.
Johnson lands with a slapping head kick.
Nice jab there from Spewak.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Spewak takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Johnson lands with a kick to the temple. Spewak shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"

Robb Spewak's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Johnson wants to clinch up but Spewak keeps it at a distance.
Johnson darts in trying to clinch
and Spewak counters with a nice body shot.
Johnson throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson moves in looking to clinch but Spewak pushes him off.
Johnson blocks a leg kick.
Johnson pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Robb Spewak is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Good leg kick by Johnson there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Spewak tries to land a front kick but Johnson steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Johnson keeps Spewak at a distance using the push kick.
Johnson is looking to clinch but Spewak is avoiding it.
Spewak rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Johnson moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Johnson steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Spewak.
Johnson lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Johnson showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Spewak.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Johnson throws a lazy head kick
and Spewak counters with a straight right hand.
Johnson tries a head kick but it misses.
Johnson looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Johnson clobbers Spewak with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Spewak checks a leg kick.
Spewak avoids the head kick by Johnson.
Johnson misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Johnson throws a sloppy head kick and Spewak moves out of range easily.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Johnson tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
A head kick by Johnson misses
and Spewak counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Johnson on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

John Johnson showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Robb Spewak's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! This is the final round!

The crowd cheers as Spewak lands an impressive looking overhand right. Johnson doesn't seem phased though.

Johnson is rocked!
Johnson looks up at the clock. Bad move! Spewak lands a right hand from hell, dropping Johnson. Spewak pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:11 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Robb Spewak!