PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Twista Evans (ranked 3281 p4p, 437 weight class) and Knox Harrington (ranked 2343 p4p, 331 weight class). Harrington has chosen Be-I as his entrance music. Knox Harrington struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 206.9lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Evans
vs
Harrington

152 cm
25
205 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

189 cm
26
220 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Twista Evans!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Knox Harrington!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Peter Branson and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Evans goes for a double leg but Harrington avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Harrington continues to drive forward.
Evans is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.

Evans fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Harrington sprawls well initially but Evans persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Evans throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Evans thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Evans thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Harrington's head.
Evans not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Evans lands a nice short elbow.
Evans scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Evans working Harrington over with strikes.
Evans scoring with strikes to the body and head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Evans takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Evans lands a nice short elbow.
Evans has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Harrington looks winded!
Evans lands strikes from half guard.
Harrington looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Evans working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Evans lands a nice short elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evans looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Harrington with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.

Harrington is rocked!
Nice strikes from Evans there.
Harrington is still in real trouble! Can Evans finish him?
Evans throwing shots but Harrington is blocking nicely.
Nice strikes from Evans there.
Harrington taking some punishment here, with Evans in his half guard.
Evans looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Harrington with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Evans lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Harrington quite badly. Harrington pulls Evans in close trying to recover. Evans postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Harrington on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Harrington doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Twista Evans!
A relieved looking Twista Evans thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Knox Harrington spoke after the fight, saying 'I.....I hate the world! *slams microphone down in anger and storms off*'.