PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Fedor Drago (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Simon Despres (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Drago's entrance music is Genetic Repo Man. A fine choice. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Drago
vs
Despres

170 cm
18
200 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

193 cm
22
218 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Likes ground

Nemesis Cage Clothing

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 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Fedor Drago!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Simon Despres!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Despres throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Drago's waist but Drago gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Despres off to one side.
Drago tries to close the distance and clinch but Despres swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Drago keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.

Despres instigates a clinch.
Drago scores with a knee to the head.
Drago tries to break the clinch but Despres is controlling the position.
Drago lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

It looks like Simon Despres has been cut.
Drago with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Drago connects with a nasty looking knee right to Despres's face.

Despres is rocked!
Drago pulls back and lands a big elbow that stuns Despres! Drago unloads with more strikes and Despres sinks to his knees! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Fedor Drago!