PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Andreas Burns (ranked 4292 p4p, 5125 weight class) and Darian Dean (ranked 430 p4p, 475 weight class). Darian Dean struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 207.1lbs 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. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Burns
vs
Dean

185 cm
18
205
0 - 0 - 0

178 cm
18
208
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

BANZAI COMBAT NUTRITION

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Andreas Burns!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Darian Dean!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Kenichi Hosakawa and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dean misses with a lunging right hand
and Burns counters with a right hand to the body.
Dean looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Burns darts in and out, connecting with a jab.

It looks like Darian Dean has been cut.
BOOM! Burns lands a beautiful left hook that drops Dean. Dean tries to recover but Burns is having none of it, landing more punishing shots from mount. One final crushing shot and Dean lies motionless on the canvas. The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Andreas Burns!
A less than humble Andreas Burns misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.