PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Khalid Hayes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thikata Pazaruma (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hayes comes to the cage accompanied by Flight of Icarus. Thikata Pazaruma acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Hayes
vs
Pazaruma

180 cm
20
203 lbs
7 - 1 - 0

181 cm
19
212 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Intelligent

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Khalid Hayes!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thikata Pazaruma!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Mauricio Rocha and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hayes turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Hayes throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Some wild striking there from Hayes.
Pazaruma shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Hayes counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Pazaruma just misses with a punch to the body.
Nice sprawl there from Hayes as Pazaruma shoots in.
Pazaruma moves forwards but Hayes connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Pazaruma has a takedown stuffed.
Khalid Hayes has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Thikata Pazaruma.
Hayes scores with a spinning back kick!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Hayes misses with a body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pazaruma shoots and misses
and Hayes counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Hayes stuffs the takedown attempt from Pazaruma. Pazaruma gets slowly back to his feet.
Pazaruma shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Hayes pinned against the cage. Hayes gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
Hayes lands an overhand right.

Hayes cracks Pazaruma with a big right hand that sends him crashing to the floor. Hayes has the opportunity to follow him to the ground but instead he's beckoning Pazaruma to stand back up!

Pazaruma is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
and Hayes counters with a massive uppercut that badly hurts Pazaruma! He's just covering up as Hayes starts to tee off till the referee steps in and stops the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Khalid Hayes!
Khalid Hayes retains his light heavyweight title!
Our winner, Khalid Hayes, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.