PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marcin Najman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Travis Rogers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Najman
vs
Rogers

180 cm
28
205 lbs
3 - 10 - 0

190 cm
23
205 lbs
2 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Experienced

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Knockout power

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 3 - 10 - 0, fighting out of London, Marcin Najman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Travis Rogers!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, James Atkins and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rogers shoots in and gets a takedown into Najman's guard.
Najman looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Rogers landing with the ground and pound.
Rogers cracks Najman with a solid left hand.
Rogers stands up over Najman, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Rogers is working Najman over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Rogers working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Rogers postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Rogers connects with a couple of short punches.
Rogers chips away with some ground and pound.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Rogers with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Rogers landing with the ground and pound.
Najman has momentary wrist control but Rogers slips an elbow through the middle.
Rogers works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Rogers lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Najman has hold of Rogers's hands but Rogers slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rogers takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Ground and pound from Rogers.
Rogers seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Rogers lands with a punch from half guard.
Nice strikes from Rogers there.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Rogers winds up and cracks Najman with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Najman is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Rogers scores with a couple of nice shots.
Rogers looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Najman with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Rogers drops an elbow to the side of Najman's head.
Rogers working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

Najman is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Rogers looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Najman with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Oh Najman is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Rogers lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Nice strikes from Rogers there.
Rogers working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Rogers working the head and body with strikes.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Rogers lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Najman quite badly. Najman pulls Rogers in close trying to recover. Rogers postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Najman on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Najman doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Travis Rogers!
Travis Rogers decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.