PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Dark Striker (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alex Pereira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alex Pereira will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Striker
vs
Pereira

173 cm
20
166 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
21
168 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Very confident

Pitt Nutrition (3x158 2x159 products)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Dark Striker!
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, Alex Pereira!
The judges for this bout are Mauricio Rocha, Seu Braga and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pereira throws a nice looking combination but Striker bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Pereira misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Striker on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Pereira. Pereira obviously looking to wear him down.
Striker swats away the attempt to clinch by Pereira.
Pereira tries to bum rush Striker with a series of wild strikes but Striker uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Pereira lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Striker throws a looping overhand right but Pereira ducks down to avoid it.
Striker cracks Pereira with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Striker crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Pereira - the referee stops the clock and Striker gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Pereira. Striker manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Striker throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Pereira lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Striker circles away quickly and effectively.
Sloppy strikes from Pereira. Those never looked like landing.
Pereira keeps Striker at a distance using the push kick.
Pereira throws a nice looking combination but Striker bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
A nice leg kick lands there from Pereira.
Striker misses with a wild combination.
Pereira lands with a thumping leg kick.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Striker throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Pereira has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Striker swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Some wild striking there from Pereira.
Pereira swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

Pereira darts in and clinches Striker up against the cage.
Pereira with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Dark Striker has been cut.
Striker wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Pereira throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Striker blocks it with crossed arms.
Striker is trying to break the clinch but Pereira is controlling him.
Pereira looking to throw knees to the head but Striker is blocking nicely.
Pereira wants to stall.
Pereira tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Striker can't break the clinch.
Pereira connects with a nasty looking knee right to Striker's face.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pereira throws a knee to the head but misses.
Pereira lands a hook to the side of the head.
Striker is trying to push Pereira away but Pereira has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.

Pereira breaks from the clinch.
Pereira moves out of range as Striker strikes.
Striker looks to land a right hand but Pereira moved out of range.
Pereira gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Striker missing with a left hand there. Pereira was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Pereira uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Striker.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Striker avoids a punch combination nicely.
Striker swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

Pereira clinches up against the cage.
Pereira with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Striker looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Pereira prevents Striker from breaking the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pereira stalling.
Pereira misses with a knee to the head.
Pereira missing with knees to the body.
Pereira tries to land a knee to the head but Striker blocks with his arms.
Pereira tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Pereira with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Pereira misses with a knee to the head.
Pereira lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Striker is looking to break free of the clinch but Pereira has double underhooks.
Pereira wants to stall.
Pereira tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Pereira connects with a knee to the head.
Striker takes a knee to the side of the body.

Pereira's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Striker throws a big shot that misses.
Pereira throws a right and a left that Striker avoids nicely.
Striker swats away the attempt to clinch by Pereira.
Striker misses with a straight right.
Striker throws a series of punches but Pereira avoids them all with ease.
Pereira keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Striker is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Striker swinging wildly here.
Pereira cracks Striker with an open hand slap.
Striker avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Striker will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Striker throws a lazy right hand but Pereira sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Striker works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Pereira is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Striker takes a swing at Pereira's ribcage but misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Alex Pereira will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Dark Striker's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Striker lands a right hook to the body.
Pereira fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Sloppy strikes from Striker. Those never looked like landing.
Striker cracks Pereira with an open hand slap.
Pereira connects with a leg kick. Striker looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Striker misses with a few strikes there.
Striker dodges the punch combination from Pereira.
Pereira looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Striker staying out of range there.
Pereira throws a right and a left that Striker avoids nicely.
Striker fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Pereira misses with a series of wild punches.
Striker fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Pereira manages to avoid it.
Striker takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Pereira lands a high kick!
Striker misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Pereira.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pereira swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Striker misses with a jab, cross combination.
Pereira rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Striker moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Pereira is breathing heavily.
Some wild striking there from Striker.
Pereira takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.

Pereira is rocked!
Striker digs a good hook to Pereira's body.
Pereira is still on wobbly legs! Can Striker finish him?
Striker walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Pereira drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Striker swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Pereira's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:29 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dark Striker!