PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Craig Daniels (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matt Richard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Craig Daniels had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 187.2lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!

Daniels
vs
Richard

178 cm
19
192 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

180 cm
18
193 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Intelligent

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Craig Daniels!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Matt Richard!
The judges for this bout are Alec Ball, Dillan Fox and Steve Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Richard throws a right and a left that both miss.

Richard shoots in and gets a takedown into Daniels's guard.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.
Richard not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.
Richard sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Daniels's guard.

Richard has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Daniels defend it? Richard steps over the head and cranks it - Daniels is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Richard!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Matt Richard!