PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Patrick Mannelly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Giorgio Conte (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Patrick Mannelly had a look across the cage there at his opponent. He definitely means business

Mannelly
vs
Conte

180 cm
38
178 lbs
27 - 11 - 1

180 cm
29
179 lbs
17 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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 27 - 11 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Patrick Mannelly!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Giorgio Conte!
The judges for this bout are Columbo Gatti, Reed Andrews and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Conte throws a right and a left that Mannelly avoids nicely.
Mannelly 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.
Conte moves away from the strike by Mannelly.
Conte wants to slow Mannelly down by chopping away at his legs.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Mannelly misses with a body shot.
Conte ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Mannelly moves away.
Conte walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Mannelly misses with a looping right.
Mannelly thows a left - swing and a miss!
Conte tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Conte takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Mannelly is looking to chop away at Conte's legs.
Conte takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Mannelly lands a really nice looking cross but Conte seems unphased.
Mannelly scores with a jab. Conte acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Mannelly throws a body punch but Conte moves out of range.
Mannelly throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Conte digs a good hook to Mannelly's body.
Conte keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
It seemed like Conte was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Mannelly loads up on a big right hand but Conte slips the punch.
Conte dips to his left and cracks Mannelly with an uppercut!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mannelly throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
A nice leg kick lands there from Conte.
Mannelly waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Conte.
Conte is looking to slow Mannelly down with leg kicks.
Mannelly is looking to slow Conte down with leg kicks.
Mannelly lands a leg kick that knocks Conte off balance momentarily.
Mannelly misses with a low kick.

Conte moves into range and clinches up with Mannelly.
Mannelly blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Mannelly gets through Conte's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Conte tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Mannelly lands a nice uppercut.
Conte blocking some punches.
A body shot lands from Conte.
Mannelly fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Mannelly blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Mannelly misses with a short punch on the inside.
Conte lands with a short shot to the head.
A short right from Conte on the inside.
Conte blocks an uppercut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Conte tries to land knees in the clinch but Mannelly avoids the damage to the body.
Conte works on Mannelly's body with a couple of short punches.
Mannelly misses with some punches.
Conte lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Conte throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mannelly blocks it with crossed arms.
Conte tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Mannelly prevents a body shot from Conte.
Mannelly misses with a punch on the inside.
Mannelly tries a body shot but Conte blocks it.
Mannelly misses with a short punch on the inside.
Mannelly has a couple of punches blocked by Conte.
Conte misses with a knee strike.
Conte stalling in the clinch but Mannelly improves position.
Mannelly tries a body shot but Conte blocks it.
Mannelly misses with a hook from the clinch.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Mannelly.
Conte lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Mannelly or not.
Mannelly has a couple of punches blocked by Conte.
Mannelly lands a shoulder strike.
Mannelly throws a punch but it's blocked by Conte.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mannelly tries to work over Conte's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Conte tries a body shot but Mannelly blocks it.
Come on Mannelly - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mannelly.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Conte.
Conte softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Mannelly working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Conte utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Conte creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Conte swings wildly with an uppercut but Mannelly uses good head movement to avoid it.
Conte stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Conte misses with the head strike.

Conte breaks from the clinch.
Mannelly listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Mannelly tries to close the distance and clinch up but Conte swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Conte lands with a hook. Mannelly tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Mannelly moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Conte throws the left hand but Mannelly avoids the punch easily.
Mannelly connects with a solid leg kick.
Mannelly is looking to clinch but Conte is avoiding it.
Mannelly takes one on the button.
Conte walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Mannelly checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Mannelly is looking to counter punch.
Conte throws a right and a left that Mannelly avoids nicely.
Mannelly throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
A big left from Mannelly misses.
Mannelly misses with a low kick.
Conte closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Conte catches Mannelly with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Conte tries to clinch up but Mannelly circles away and keeps his distance.
Mannelly missing with a left hand there. Conte was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Conte misses with a low kick.
Conte throws a low kick but Mannelly avoids it.
Conte checks a low kick from Mannelly.
Conte swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Conte scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Conte swings for the body but Mannelly moves out of range.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Giorgio Conte will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Conte lets loose with a powerful body kick. Mannelly will feel that in the morning.
Mannelly is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Mannelly throws a leg kick that misses.
Conte scores with a nice right hand.
Conte avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Conte wants to slow Mannelly down by chopping away at his legs.
Conte tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Mannelly is able to avoid easily.
Conte throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Mannelly swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Conte avoids the head kick by Mannelly.
Mannelly lands a nice shot to the body.
Mannelly scores with a body shot.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Good work by Mannelly as he checks the leg kick.
Mannelly connects with a looping right hand.
Conte throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Mannelly on the side of the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Conte wants to clinch.
Mannelly wants to take advantage of his opponent's missed offense by moving into the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Conte tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Mannelly is able to avoid easily.
A looping hook to the body misses from Mannelly. Conte does a little dance to reset his feet.
Mannelly throws a half hearted mid kick.
Conte tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Conte misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Mannelly throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Conte fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Mannelly checks it well.
Mannelly was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Conte scores with a hook to the body. Mannelly takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Conte dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Giorgio Conte seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Good leg kick by Mannelly there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Mannelly moves out of range of the body kick.
Mannelly cracks a nice hook into Conte's ribs.
Conte shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Conte moves out of range of the strikes.
Conte throws a body kick despite being completely out of range
and Mannelly counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Mannelly misses the shot to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mannelly slips a jab and a cross from Conte.
Conte fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Mannelly has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Conte avoids the body shot from Mannelly.
Mannelly tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Conte misses with an uppercut.
Mannelly takes a swing at Conte's ribcage but misses.
Mannelly lands a really nice looking cross but Conte seems unphased.
Mannelly showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Conte.
Mannelly lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Conte circles away quickly and effectively.
A chopping leg kick lands by Mannelly.
A telegraphed right hand from Mannelly misses the target.

Mannelly closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Conte blocks a body shot from Mannelly.
Mannelly misses with a short punch on the inside.
Conte throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mannelly blocks it with crossed arms.
Conte lands a good knee to the midsection. Mannelly won't want to take too many of those.
Conte lands a shoulder strike.
Mannelly is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Conte is keeping busy.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Conte stalling in the clinch but Mannelly improves position.
Mannelly lands with a short head shot on the inside.
A short left from Conte.

Conte manages to break the clinch.
Mannelly throws the left hand but Conte avoids the punch easily.
Conte looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Conte lands a nice looking body shot.
Mannelly stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Conte.
Mannelly swings and misses with a hook to the body.
As Mannelly backs off Conte throws a huge counter combo but Mannelly manages to avoid it all.
Conte lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Mannelly circles away quickly and effectively.
Conte throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Conte lands the left hand.
Conte misses with a series of wild punches.
Mannelly misses with an uppercut. Conte saw that one coming.
Mannelly throws a jab when Conte was well out of range.

Mannelly rushes Conte and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Mannelly has a couple of punches blocked by Conte.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Conte blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Conte scores with a nice hook to the head.
Mannelly tries a body shot but Conte blocks it.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Mannelly swings wildly with an uppercut but Conte uses good head movement to avoid it.
A shot in the inside from Conte.
Conte landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
A head punch on the inside from Mannelly fails to land.
Mannelly fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mannelly.
Conte tries a body shot but Mannelly blocks it.
Conte working Mannelly over with knees to the body.

Conte breaks the clinch.
Mannelly digs a good body shot into Conte's ribs.
Mannelly ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Mannelly scoring well with a low kick there.
Mannelly avoids the body shot from Conte.
A jab from Mannelly misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close second round but Giorgio Conte will probably get the nod - 10:9.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. This is the final round!

Mannelly just misses with a punch to the body.
Mannelly will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Conte checks a leg kick.
Conte throws a body shot but no joy.
Mannelly keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
A decent looking cross lands there for Conte.
Mannelly throws the left hand but Conte avoids the punch easily.
Conte misses with a kick to the body.
Conte lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Mannelly takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
An inside leg kick lands from Conte.
Mannelly throws out a loose jab but Conte uses good head movement to avoid it.
Mannelly backing away here, and Conte unleashes a leg kick that just misses.
Conte goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
That kick from Conte tenderised Mannelly's leg. Mannelly is trying to keep his angry face on.
Conte connects with an inside leg kick.
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!

Mannelly gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Mannelly misses with some punches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Conte landing knees to the body.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Conte goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Mannelly's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Conte scores with a shot to the side of Mannelly's head.
Mannelly wants to stall.
Conte presses Mannelly against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Mannelly creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Mannelly misses with a short punch on the inside.
Conte misses with a knee to the head.
Mannelly blocking some punches.
Conte misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Conte misses with the head strike.
Conte prevents a body shot from Mannelly.
Mannelly is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Conte.
Conte landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Conte lands a hook that snaps the head of Mannelly backwards.
Mannelly working aggressively here.
Mannelly swings wildly with an uppercut but Conte uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Conte is trying to maintain a safe position but Mannelly gets an underhook and turns Conte into the cage.
Conte blocks a body shot from Mannelly.
Conte lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Nice body punch from Conte.
Conte lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

Conte breaks from the clinch.
A chopping leg kick lands by Conte.
Conte connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Mannelly's hands.

Conte moves into the clinch.
Mannelly swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Mannelly lands a left hand that snaps the head of Conte backwards.
Mannelly swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Mannelly's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Conte misses with a punch on the inside.

Conte's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Conte fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Mannelly checks it well.
Mannelly throws a quick inside leg kick.
Giorgio Conte is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A decent looking cross lands there for Conte.
Conte uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Mannelly.
Conte moves forwards but Mannelly connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Mannelly throws a hook but Conte blocks it.
A jab lands there for Mannelly.
Mannelly swats away the attempt to clinch by Conte.
Mannelly avoids a kick to the body.
Mannelly is looking to counter punch.
Patrick Mannelly has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Mannelly pivots, looking for a leg kick but Conte is out of range and Mannelly settles back down.
Mannelly jabbing away but nothing is landing.
A little jabbing left from Conte on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Mannelly's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Conte connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Mannelly scrambles back to his feet.
Conte tries to clinch there but Mannelly circles away.
Mannelly tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Conte looks to score with a jab to the body but Mannelly is just out of range.
Mannelly throws a big shot that misses.
Conte cracks Mannelly with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Mannelly throws a hook but Conte avoids it easily.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Conte misses with the combination.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Conte throws a sloppy head kick and Mannelly moves out of range easily.
Mannelly throws a low kick, looking for Conte's leg but Conte calmly moves out of range.
Conte scores with a shot to the body.
Conte feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Mannelly's calf.
Mannelly misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Conte.
Conte tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Mannelly tries to work over Conte's front leg with a kick but Conte checks it.
Mannelly throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Conte sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Mannelly misses with a hook.
Conte lands with a shot to the body.
Conte stuns Mannelly with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Conte defending well as Mannelly loads up on a big left hand.
A jab from Mannelly misses.

Conte drives through and clinches with Mannelly against the cage.

And that's the end of the fight!
Giorgio Conte comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Conte has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Columbo Gatti scores the fight 27:30
Judge Reed Andrews scores the fight 27:30
Judge Russell Pearce scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Giorgio Conte!