PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Awekome Doji (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gabriel Flores (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Doji
vs
Flores

191 cm
26
274 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

192 cm
27
263 lbs
11 - 9 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Awekome Doji!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Gabriel Flores!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yuuki Gou and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Flores stuffs the takedown attempt from Doji. Doji gets slowly back to his feet.
Flores lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.

It looks like Awekome Doji has been cut.

Flores pushes Doji up against the ropes in a clinch.
Doji is working for takedown but Flores is calmly controlling the position for now.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Doji working hard to break the clinch.

Flores gets the body lock takedown. After a quick scramble, Doji regains guard.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Flores works over Doji with some ground and pound from guard.
Doji keeping moving, preventing Flores from controlling successfully.
Flores is working Doji over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Doji is trying to keep Flores in close.
Flores trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Flores passes Doji's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Flores tries to pass the half guard into mount. Doji knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Doji wants to improve his position but Flores is controlling well.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Flores is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Doji gets back to full guard.
Doji can't keep his opponent in guard - Flores advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Doji makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Doji.
Flores postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Flores forces his way into half guard.
Flores trying to control the action but Doji is working from the bottom.
Doji wants to get back to his feet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Doji trying to control from the bottom.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Flores lands strikes from half guard.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Doji is staying active underneath Flores, who seems content to just control the action from this position.

Flores seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Doji is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Gabriel Flores!