PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between James Vaughn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Carlos Batistuta (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vaughn comes to the cage accompanied by The Godfather . Carlos Batistuta is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Vaughn
vs
Batistuta

187 cm
26
220 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

182 cm
20
210 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

Powerful takedowns
Solid Muay Thai
Powerful

Brute
Untouchable Fight Gear

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 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, James Vaughn!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Carlos Batistuta!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Batistuta misses the shot to the body.
Batistuta rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Vaughn moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Vaughn misses with an uppercut.
Vaughn connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

Batistuta darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Vaughn tries to kick Batistuta off but Batistuta keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Vaughn knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Batistuta on the ground.

Batistuta seems to be trying to get a kimura but instead Vaughn has recovered full guard.
Batistuta trying to control but Vaughn is working from the bottom.
Batistuta postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vaughn bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Batistuta's guard.
Vaughn has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Batistuta is proving hard to escape from.

Vaughn is posturing up here but Batistuta has hold of an arm and he's gone for an armbar! Vaughn tries to roll out but it's too tight and Vaughn has to tap! Slick submission there by Batistuta!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Carlos Batistuta!
Carlos Batistuta is the new light heavyweight champion!
A relieved looking Carlos Batistuta thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.