PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Jayy Ventura (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Nichols (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jayy Ventura has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Ventura
vs
Nichols

185 cm
19
160 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

154 cm
21
156 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Jayy Ventura!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, John Nichols!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, Daniel Franklin and David Hoff.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Nichols scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A nice right hand lands inside from Nichols.
Nichols fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
We're hearing some news coming in from back stage. It's official - Nichols has eaten all the pies!

Nichols drops Ventura onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Ventura is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!

Ventura is rocked!
Ventura has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Nichols scores with a nice hook to the head.
Oh Ventura is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Nichols misses with the head strike.
Nichols misses with a hook from the clinch.
Ventura tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Ventura seems to have got his legs back now.
Nichols misses with the head strike.
Ventura blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
We can't be sure of the tactics at this early stage but we have heard that Nichols has been working on his takedowns a lot in the buildup to the fight and we can only assume he's going to look to take this to the mat.

Nichols drops Ventura onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Ventura is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!
Ventura jumps guard but Nichols turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Nichols tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Nichols has a couple of punches blocked by Ventura.
Nichols lands a hook that snaps the head of Ventura backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ventura blocking some punches.
Nichols scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Nichols misses with a punch on the inside.
Nichols lands with a short head shot on the inside.
A short uppercut from Nichols.
Nichols unloads with a big right hand that wobbles Ventura! He's leaning against the cage trying to keep his feet but Nichols is unloading with more strikes now! Ventura drops to his knees and the referee stops the fight for a TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Nichols!