PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Dan Henderson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and ben cook (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). cook comes into a darkened arena with his song building. last man kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Dan Henderson looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Henderson
vs
cook

180 cm
22
185 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

180 cm
19
198 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Counter striker
Cuts easily

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Dan Henderson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, ben cook!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, James Ackerman and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

cook darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.

cook looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.
Henderson knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for cook on the ground.

cook is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Henderson wants to get back to full guard.
cook is thwarting Henderson's attempts to control the position.

Henderson is defending against the submission attempts here by cook.
Henderson on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Henderson tries to get out of the position.
Henderson wants to improve his position but cook is controlling well.

That's one minute gone in the round.
cook seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Henderson does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.

cook looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

cook is working for a submission of some sort.
Henderson is looking for a sweep. cook is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.

cook is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Henderson defends it well.

Henderson is defending against the submission attempts here by cook.
cook looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
cook is trying to control the action in half guard but Henderson is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
cook throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
cook trying to pass the guard but Henderson defending well.
cook stops Henderson from getting back to his feet.

cook is trying for a kimura here. Henderson looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! cook wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). ben cook!