PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bartholomew Simpson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Stone Kirby (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kirby comes into a darkened arena with his song building. eye of the tiger kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Stone Kirby has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Simpson
vs
Kirby

190 cm
29
200 lbs
21 - 8 - 0

188 cm
28
222 lbs
14 - 5 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Reaper Combatwear

BeastMode

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 21 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Bartholomew Simpson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 5 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Stone Kirby!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Winston Howard and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kirby throws a predictable looking body shot
and Simpson counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Kirby thinking.
Kirby on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Kirby takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
A looping hook to the body misses from Simpson. Kirby does a little dance to reset his feet.
Simpson throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Kirby tries to keep at a distance but Simpson has taken the fight into the clinch.
Simpson throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Kirby blocks it with crossed arms.
Simpson tries to land knees in the clinch but Kirby avoids the damage to the body.
Simpson displaying some good clinch control by pressing Kirby up against the cage.
Kirby lands an elbow that stopped Simpson in his tracks for a moment.

It looks like Bartholomew Simpson has been cut.
Kirby unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Kirby throws an elbow but it misses.
A head punch on the inside from Kirby fails to land.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Kirby blocks a body shot from Simpson.
Kirby throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Still in the clinch, Kirby scores with a nice short uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kirby throws a head punch that misses.
Kirby blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Nice elbow from Kirby.
A short right from Kirby.
Kirby working Simpson over with knees to the body.
Kirby told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
Kirby gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
A bit of stalling here from Simpson.
Kirby tries to throw a body punch but Simpson avoids it by throwing Kirby back against the cage.
I was talking to Simpson's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Simpson trying to control the position but instead, Kirby has worked for underhooks and has pushed Simpson into the cage.
Kirby landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Simpson throws a knee to the head but misses.
Kirby pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
A short right from Simpson on the inside.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Kirby lands with a short head shot on the inside.
A head punch on the inside from Kirby fails to land.
Kirby blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Kirby lands a right hand that snaps the head of Simpson backwards.
Simpson connects with a nasty looking knee right to Kirby's face.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Simpson misses with a body punch.
Simpson tries to throw a body punch but Kirby avoids it by throwing Simpson back against the cage.
Kirby lands with a left to the head.
Kirby pushes Simpson back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Simpson can't find room to land a body shot as Kirby controls the action.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Kirby misses with some punches.
Simpson throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Kirby blocks it with crossed arms.
Kirby pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Kirby pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Simpson avoids the elbow strike from Kirby, against the cage.
Simpson on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Simpson takes an elbow to the forehead.
Simpson dodges an elbow strike from Kirby.
Simpson misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Kirby.
Kirby lands a damaging elbow.
Kirby lands a knee to the body.
Simpson struggles to land a body shot inside as Kirby controls his hands.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kirby lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Simpson takes an elbow to the forehead.

Bartholomew Simpson's cut is getting worse.
The referee calls for Simpson to work.
Simpson blocks an elbow strike.
Simpson throws a head punch that misses.
Kirby lands a nice shot to the body.
Kirby tries to throw a body punch but Simpson avoids it by throwing Kirby back against the cage.
A short left from Kirby.
Kirby tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Kirby throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Kirby works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Kirby lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Kirby lands an elbow inside.
Kirby misses with an elbow over the top.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Simpson tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kirby's elbow.
Simpson lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Kirby or not.
Kirby tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Simpson avoids it.
Kirby lands an elbow inside that Simpson shrugs off.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kirby lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

Bartholomew Simpson's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Kirby comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Simpson tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kirby swings wildly with an uppercut but Simpson uses good head movement to avoid it.
Kirby misses with a short punch on the inside.
Simpson landing knees to the head.
Simpson looking to throw knees to the head but Kirby is blocking nicely.
Simpson takes an elbow to the forehead.
Kirby misses with a short punch on the inside.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Simpson takes an elbow to the forehead.

Jeez, Bartholomew Simpson's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Kirby lands a right hand that snaps the head of Simpson backwards.
Kirby pushes Simpson back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Kirby scores with a nice hook to the head.
Simpson blocks an elbow strike.
Simpson lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Stone Kirby dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Bartholomew Simpson's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

Kirby turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Kirby's corner calls for a 1-2. Kirby obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Bartholomew Simpson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kirby feints and then cracks Simpson's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Simpson down.
Simpson throws a half hearted mid kick.
Kirby thows a left - swing and a miss!
Kirby takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Kirby connects with a solid leg kick.
Kirby throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Simpson's head.
Simpson misses with a wild body shot.
Kirby misses with a kick to the body.
Simpson throws an overhand right that lands on Kirby's shoulder, as Kirby tries to avoid the shot.
Kirby fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Kirby cracks the inside of Simpson's front leg.
Kirby misses with a body kick.
Kirby lands a jab to Simpson's midsection.
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!
Some bone on bone action there as Simpson checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Kirby drives through and clinches with Simpson against the cage.
Kirby landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Simpson scores with a hook to the body.
Simpson slows down the pace here.
Kirby blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Simpson missing with knees to the body.
Kirby lands an elbow that stopped Simpson in his tracks for a moment.
Simpson trying to land knees to the body.
Kirby lands an elbow inside that Simpson shrugs off.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Bartholomew Simpson's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Stone Kirby!
A relieved looking Stone Kirby thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.