PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Cristian La Rosa (ranked 4732 p4p, 4656 weight class) and Pat Kelly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). La Rosa comes into the arena with Death USB blaring out of the sound system. Pat Kelly will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

La Rosa
vs
Kelly

183 cm
23
185
0 - 0 - 0

225 cm
23
198
2 - 3 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Cristian La Rosa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Pat Kelly!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Winston Alpacca and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kelly takes a swing at La Rosa's ribcage but misses.
Kelly cracks La Rosa with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.

La Rosa shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than La Rosa was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.

La Rosa tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no La Rosa has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Kelly is trying to control La Rosa's posture but La Rosa avoids it.

La Rosa has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Kelly is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. La Rosa yanks on the arm and Kelly is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by La Rosa.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Cristian La Rosa!
Cristian La Rosa bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.