PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Acelino Freitas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Khalid Hayes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hayes is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by A Regular Day at the Office. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Freitas
vs
Hayes

170 cm
18
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

180 cm
18
203 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

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 Rio de Janeiro, Acelino Freitas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Khalid Hayes!
The judges for this bout are Edson Gomes, Leandro Rodrigues and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Freitas gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Hayes counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

It looks like Acelino Freitas has been cut.
Hayes with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Freitas uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Hayes.
Hayes slips a jab and a cross from Freitas.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Hayes avoids a punch combination nicely.
Freitas is breathing heavily.
Hayes fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Freitas tries to clinch but Hayes moves out of range.
Freitas misses with a double jab.
Freitas lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Hayes circles away quickly and effectively.
A looping hook to the body misses from Hayes. Freitas does a little dance to reset his feet.
Freitas dodges the punch combination from Hayes.
Hayes listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Hayes jabs Freitas right on the nose. Freitas blinks but takes it well.

Freitas is rocked!
Freitas shoots for a double leg takedown but Hayes sprawls well. He's pushed Freitas's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Hayes lands a right hook to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Hayes lands a big uppercut and Freitas crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Freitas looks OK. Hayes waves Freitas back to his feet!
Oh Freitas is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Hayes ducks down into range and throws a picture perfect right hook that connects with Freitas's jaw. Freitas's eyes stare off into space as he falls to the mat, out cold! Hayes does the decent thing and steps back, rather than landing any shots to his unconscious opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:10 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Khalid Hayes!
Khalid Hayes decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.