PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Melvin Ferguson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tom Billington (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ferguson
vs
Billington

188 cm
22
270 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

185 cm
21
272 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Solid chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Melvin Ferguson!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Tom Billington!
The judges for this bout are Richard Clark, James Glass and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Billington avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Ferguson looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Billington scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Billington really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Ferguson. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Billington tries to pass the half guard into mount. Ferguson knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Billington is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Ferguson tries to roll over but Billington keeps him under control.
Billington lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Billington winds up and cracks Ferguson with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Billington looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Billington thows a huge punch but Ferguson dodges it nicely.
Billington working the head and body with strikes.
Billington lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Ferguson taking some punishment here, with Billington in his half guard.

Ferguson is rocked!
Nice strikes from Billington there.
Oh Ferguson is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Billington trying to mount his opponent but Ferguson defends it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ferguson is looking for a sweep. Billington is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Ferguson won't allow Billington to pass to mount.
Billington is nestled in close to Ferguson, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Billington tries to pass the half guard into mount. Ferguson knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Ferguson is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Billington scores with a couple of nice shots.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Billington scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Ferguson is looking for a sweep. Billington is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Billington seems to have lost interest with the ground game and is thinking about standing back up.
Nice strikes from Billington there.
Billington lands with a punch from half guard.
Ferguson is looking for a sweep. Billington is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Ferguson taking some punishment here, with Billington in his half guard.
Ferguson misses with some strikes from the bottom.
Ferguson taking some punishment here, with Billington in his half guard.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Billington lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Billington prevents Ferguson from improving his position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Billington lands a nice short elbow.
Ferguson seems to have got his legs back now.
Billington throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Billington working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Ferguson could do with loosing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Ferguson slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Billington postures up.
Billington must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Ferguson keeping full guard, as Billington tries to pass.
Billington is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Billington loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Billington landing with the ground and pound.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Billington pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Ferguson is keeping the position for now.
Billington chips away with some ground and pound.
Billington trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Billington preventing the sweep.
Billington distracts Ferguson with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Billington scores with a decent looking elbow strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Billington postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Ferguson wants to sweep here but Billington controlling him for the moment.
Ferguson is working hard here to advance position.

Ferguson looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Billington makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Billington postures up and lands a big shot to Ferguson's brow.
Billington throwing strikes but missing.

Ferguson looking for a guillotine here but Billington defends easily.
Billington with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Billington tries to free his leg and advance position but Ferguson is retaining full guard.
Billington lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Ferguson looking to hit a scissor sweep but Billington is one step ahead there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Billington looking to pass the guard.
Billington throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Billington throwing strikes from guard but Ferguson blocks nicely.

Ferguson has butterfly guard. He's looking to stand up here. He pushes Billington off him and springs to his feet nicely. The crowd applauds.
Ferguson shoots in but doesn't get the takedown

and Billington counters with a double leg. Ferguson bangs his head on the mat and seems to be on queer street here... Billington follows up with punches and the ref steps in to end the fight! It was the slam that caused all the problems.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Slam). Tom Billington!
Tom Billington is the new heavyweight champion!