PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Massimo Benvenuti (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Grant Morrison (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Morrison has chosen Mystery Plane as his entrance music. The key to victory for Massimo Benvenuti has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Benvenuti
vs
Morrison

182 cm
25
182 lbs
8 - 0 - 0

180 cm
25
200 lbs
7 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Heavy handed

Vikai Gear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Massimo Benvenuti!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Grant Morrison!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Winston Alpacca and Bart Greer.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morrison throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Benvenuti counters with a nice uppercut.
Benvenuti avoids the body shot from Morrison.
Morrison takes a swing at Benvenuti's ribcage but misses.

Morrison drives through and clinches with Benvenuti against the cage.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.
Benvenuti softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Benvenuti blocking some punches.
Morrison blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Benvenuti is leaning against Morrison and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Benvenuti definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Morrison tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Benvenuti avoids it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Morrison tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Morrison looking to throw knees to the head but Benvenuti is blocking nicely.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Benvenuti.
Benvenuti misses with a hook to the ribs.
Benvenuti lands a nice uppercut.
Benvenuti blocks a punch to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Benvenuti lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Morrison backwards.
A nice right hand lands inside from Morrison.
Morrison lands with a short shot to the head.
Morrison misses with a short punch on the inside.
Morrison swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Morrison throws a head punch that misses.
Benvenuti is looking to break free of the clinch but Morrison has double underhooks.
Morrison looking to throw knees to the head but Benvenuti is blocking nicely.
Morrison tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Benvenuti avoids it.
Morrison prevents a body shot from Benvenuti.
Morrison tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Benvenuti lands a nice shot to the body.
Benvenuti lands a hook to the side of the head.
Benvenuti holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Morrison misses with a knee strike.
Morrison swings away with an uppercut that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Morrison misses with a hook from the clinch.
Benvenuti avoiding damage as Morrison throws knees to the body.
Morrison using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Benvenuti has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Benvenuti blocks an uppercut.
Morrison unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Benvenuti blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Benvenuti blocks an uppercut.
Benvenuti tries to throw a body punch but Morrison avoids it by throwing Benvenuti back against the cage.
Good body shot from Benvenuti.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.
Benvenuti throws a punch but it's blocked by Morrison.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Benvenuti blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.
Benvenuti lands with a light punch inside.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Benvenuti is looking to break free of the clinch but Morrison has double underhooks.
Morrison misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Benvenuti.
Benvenuti blocking some punches.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Benvenuti.
Morrison blocks a body shot from Benvenuti.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Morrison.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.
Morrison has a couple of punches blocked by Benvenuti.
A right hook to the body lands for Benvenuti.
Morrison tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Benvenuti avoids it.
Morrison pushes Benvenuti back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Benvenuti lands a shoulder strike.
Morrison prevents Benvenuti from breaking the clinch.
A body shot lands from Benvenuti.
Morrison is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benvenuti is defending well for now.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Benvenuti scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Benvenuti lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Benvenuti misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Benvenuti is trying to break the clinch but Morrison is controlling him.
Benvenuti wants to get back to striking at distance but Morrison won't allow it.
Morrison gets through Benvenuti's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Morrison misses with a short punch on the inside.
Morrison fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Benvenuti.
Morrison misses with some punches.
Morrison tries to land knees in the clinch but Benvenuti avoids the damage to the body.
Morrison swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Morrison throws a head punch that misses.
Morrison throws a head punch that misses.
Benvenuti tries to circle away but Morrison has him pinned against the cage.
Benvenuti stalling in the clinch but Morrison improves position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Grant Morrison dominated that round.
That's time! Benvenuti's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Benvenuti steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Morrison.
Benvenuti was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Morrison takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Benvenuti feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Morrisons jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Morrison throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Benvenuti lands with a nice combination. Morrison backs away looking to recover.

Morrison is rocked!
Morrison misses with a hook to the body
and Benvenuti counters with a huge left! Morrison is in big trouble! He's backing up but Benvenuti isn't giving him chance to recover. Under a barage of punches the ref has to step in to save Morrison from any more damage. A dominating finish by Benvenuti!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Massimo Benvenuti!
Massimo Benvenuti is the new middleweight champion!
In his post fight interview, Massimo Benvenuti started talking himself up. Luckily his charisma kept the crowd on side and gave him a good reception.