PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Chris Weidman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Ortiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Daniel Ortiz was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Weidman
vs
Ortiz

188 cm
22
198 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

188 cm
27
183 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Brawler
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Chris Weidman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Ortiz!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Thiago Cunha and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Weidman wants to slow Ortiz down by chopping away at his legs.
Ortiz moves to clinch but Weidman breaks away

and Weidman counters with a nice double leg into side control. Ortiz won't be happy with that.
Ortiz is looking for a sweep.
Ortiz struggling a bit here.
Weidman grinds an elbow into Ortiz's temple.
Weidman trying to control the action but Ortiz is working from the bottom.
Ortiz is looking for a sweep.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Ortiz taking punishment in the form of punches.

Ortiz is rocked!

It looks like Daniel Ortiz has been cut.
Weidman scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Ortiz is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Weidman can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Chris Weidman!
Chris Weidman spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.