PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Papa Legba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arthur Read (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Legba comes to the cage accompanied by "Cruising in Miami" by Bass 305. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Legba
vs
Read

166 cm
24
147 lbs
9 - 2 - 0

180 cm
25
159 lbs
5 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Papa Legba!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Arthur Read!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Konstantin Menshow and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Legba misses with a left hand
and Legba takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Read darts in trying to clinch
and Legba counters with a straight right hand.
Read tries to clinch
and Legba counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Legba misses with a hook

and Read moves into the clinch.
Read has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Legba avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
Legba lands an elbow that stopped Read in his tracks for a moment.
Read is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Legba pulls him back up using the underhooks.
Read takes an elbow to the temple.

Read is rocked!
A right handed body shot lands from Legba.
Read is still on wobbly legs! Can Legba finish him?
Legba displaying some good clinch control by pressing Read up against the cage.
Legba lands a hook that snaps the head of Read backwards.
A knee to the head by Legba.
Legba working Read over with knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Clinched against the cage, Legba lands a big elbow that drops Read! The ref dives in to save him from more shots - Read is complaining that he's OK but he was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:09 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Papa Legba!