PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Jack The Ripper (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Felipe Giant (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

The Ripper
vs
Giant

180 cm
22
180 lbs
7 - 7 - 0

176 cm
20
179 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
KO power

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Solid chin

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 7 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jack The Ripper!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Felipe Giant!
The judges for this bout are Damien Edna, Bruno Hogan and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Giant throws a big shot that misses.
Giant misses with a head kick.
Giant cracks The Ripper with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Giant throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

The Ripper shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Giant is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
The Ripper prevents Giant from getting the reversal.
The Ripper looking to control and managing it successfully.
Giant is squirming around, avoiding The Ripper's attempts to control the action.
Giant is wriggling around trying to escape.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Ripper looking to control but Giant is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Giant is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Giant is trying to avoid being dragged into an even worse position than he's already in but The Ripper is staying active.

The Ripper has hold of Giant's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and Giant manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Giant wants to control but The Ripper is having none of it.
The Ripper trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The Ripper throws some wild stikes that Giant manages to avoid easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The Ripper tries to control but Giant wriggling away.
Giant is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Giant is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
The Ripper trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Giant takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Giant tries to lock up and control but The Ripper gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Giant is squirming around, avoiding The Ripper's attempts to control the action.
Giant wants to control but The Ripper is having none of it.
The Ripper tries to control but Giant wriggling away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Ripper misses with a head shot.
The Ripper postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Giant looks a forlorn figure.
Giant is wriggling around trying to escape.
The Ripper avoids the attempt from Giant to control.
The Ripper thowing shots but they're missing.
Giant is working to get back to half guard.
The Ripper has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
The Ripper wants to control the pace but Giant is squirming around nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Giant is looking to get to half guard.
The Ripper looking to control but Giant is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Giant blocking the ground and pound.
The Ripper trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Giant avoids a series of strikes thrown by The Ripper.
This has been an exciting period of action!
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Giant is squirming around, avoiding The Ripper's attempts to control the action.
The Ripper avoids the attempt from Giant to control.
The Ripper tries to control but Giant wriggling away.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jack The Ripper dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Giant rushes in with a sloppy looking punch

and The Ripper counters with a nice double leg into side control. Giant won't be happy with that.
The Ripper is putting a hurting on Giant here, landing some big shots from side control.
Giant is looking to reverse the position.
Giant wants to control but The Ripper postures up.
The Ripper slows the pace down.
The Ripper sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Giant is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
The Ripper is looking to take a break and control but Giant is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The Ripper is pausing for a moment. What's he doing? It looks like he's clearing his nose. Oh dude! He's shot a load of snot all down Giant's shoulder. That is not cool.
Giant manages to work his way to half guard, despite The Ripper's best efforts.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The Ripper moves nicely into side control.
The strikes coming from The Ripper are missing the target in this wave of attacks.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Ripper postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
The Ripper trying to control the position but Giant is working away.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Giant is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
The Ripper working away.
The Ripper tries to cartwheel into mount but he doesn't manage it.
The Ripper controlling the position from side mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Giant is looking to regain half guard here but The Ripper keeps moving and retains side control.
The Ripper takes a little break here. Giant wants to take advantage but he is being controlled well.
The Ripper tries to advance to mount but can't.
Giant is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Giant is not content to let The Ripper control the position.
Jack The Ripper overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.

The Ripper looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
The Ripper wants to lay and pray for a moment but Giant keeps working.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Giant is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked The Ripper off and has taken his back!
The Ripper tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!
Giant pushing the pace here, looking to move to his opponents back and work for a finish.
The Ripper is in all sorts of trouble here.
The Ripper is working hard here to advance position.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Giant takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
The Ripper regains half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jack The Ripper dominated that second round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. And we move into the final round!

Giant keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from The Ripper.
The Ripper will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Giant scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Giant scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Felipe Giant seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Giant thuds his right hand into The Ripper's forehead from close range. That could be painful for both fighters.
Giant fails in his attempt to clinch.
The Ripper throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Giant pushes The Ripper up against the cage in a clinch.
The Ripper is working for takedown but Giant is calmly controlling the position for now.

Giant breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
The Ripper shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Giant as he avoids it easily.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Jack The Ripper. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Giant scores with a kick to the midsection.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Ripper misses with a jab, cross combination.
Giant lands a nice looking kick to the body. The Ripper takes a step back to recover.
Felipe Giant is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Giant throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck The Ripper on the side of the head.
Giant thumps The Ripper with a low kick.
The Ripper chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Giant can pounce on him.
Giant connects with a solid leg kick.
Giant connects with a looping right hand.
Giant fakes the leg kick and cracks The Ripper in the body.
Giant clobbers The Ripper with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
A slapping body kick lands there for Giant.
Felipe Giant has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Giant scores with a sloppy right hand. The Ripper should have avoided that one.
Giant scores with a nice body kick.
Giant looks to throw the jab but The Ripper is out of range.
Giant dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on The Ripper. That did some damage!
A nice inside leg kick there by Giant. That's going to slow The Ripper down.
Giant misses with an uppercut. The Ripper saw that one coming.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Giant lands a nice shot to the body.
Giant displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from The Ripper.
Giant misses with a straight right.
The Ripper avoids the body shot from Giant.
A chopping leg kick lands by Giant.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Giant throws a front kick that sends The Ripper stumbling back into the cage.
The Ripper takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Giant misses with an attempted mid kick.
The Ripper circles away from the clinch attempt.
Giant scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. The Ripper doesn't seem bothered though.
Felipe Giant seems to be getting the better of the standup.
The Ripper takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Nice defenses there by The Ripper.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from The Ripper.
The Ripper has a takedown stuffed.
The Ripper drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Giant just misses with a punch to the body.
Giant throws a poor cross that misses
and The Ripper counters with a straight right hand.
Giant connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between The Ripper's hands.
The Ripper misses with an uppercut.

Giant clinches.
The Ripper is working on a leg, looking for a takedown but Giant is defending well.
Giant working some nice short punches in the clinch.
This has been an exciting period of action!
A body shot lands from Giant.
A right handed body shot lands from Giant.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
The Ripper has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Giant avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
Giant leaning his opponent against the cage.
Giant lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

And that's the end of the fight!
Felipe Giant comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think The Ripper has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Damien Edna scores the fight 29:28
Judge Bruno Hogan scores the fight 29:28
Judge Summer Carpenter scores the fight 29:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jack The Ripper!