PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Diego Rodriguez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shawn Barry (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rodriguez's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Planet Terror - El Wray. Shawn Barry will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Rodriguez
vs
Barry

168 cm
26
175 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

175 cm
26
176 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Solid chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Diego Rodriguez!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Shawn Barry!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rodriguez moves into the clinch successfully.
Barry lands a hook to the side of the head.
Barry throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Rodriguezs head.
Barry stalls.
Rodriguez has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Barry is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Barry stops a takedown attempt from Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is looking for a takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Diego Rodriguez. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Barry is pressed up against the cage. Rodriguez has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Barry down to the mat. Barry avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Rodriguez slips a straight right by Barry.
Rodriguez misses with a shot to the body
and Barry counters with a straight right hand.
Barry connects with a nice looking jab.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Barry scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Rodriguez shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Barry sprawls well. Barry wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Rodriguez gets slowly back to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice defenses there by Rodriguez.
Barry throws a jab when Rodriguez was well out of range.
Rodriguez shoots for a double leg takedown but Barry sprawls well. He's pushed Rodriguez's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.

Rodriguez closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Barry is trying to get back to his feet.
A bit of a lull in the action. I'm sure it will pick up again soon... even if the ref has to physically pick them up and put them back on their feet.
Rodriguez cracks Barry with an elbow. That is naaassty.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Barry can do anything to dispel that myth.
Rodriguez moves into full mount!
Barry really wants to buck Rodriguez off and get back to his feet.
Rodriguez controlling the position easily from mount.
Rodriguez is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Barry can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Barry really wants to buck Rodriguez off and get back to his feet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rodriguez fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Barry really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Rodriguez. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Rodriguez scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Barry?
Rodriguez controlling from mount.
Rodriguez's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Rodriguez landing punches.
Rodriguez is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Barry can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Rodriguez working the ground and pound effectively.
Rodriguez dominating with strikes here.
Rodriguez working Barry over with strikes here.
Barry is bucking up trying to escape but Rodriguez cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Barry's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
Rodriguez lands a couple of good shots and Barry has given up his back, trying to escape the position!

Barry is rocked!
Rodriguez connects with a big shot to the side of Barry's head.
Barry is still in real trouble! Can Rodriguez finish him?
Rodriguez lands a shot to the head.
Rodriguez has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rodriguez throwing damaging strikes from the back! Barry could be in trouble here!
Barry has the hand control, trying to stop the rear naked choke.
Rodriguez is punishing Barry with strikes - can he finish him?!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Barry is trying to get back to his feet but he's not managed it yet.
Barry seems to have recovered his senses.
Rodriguez lands with a couple of good shots - one to the side of the head and one questionable shot that could be viewed as to the back of the head but the referee lets it go.
Barry controlling the position well but he knows he's in a bad position.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Barry is using up a lot of energy trying to get back to his feet. Perhaps he should improve his position first.
Rodriguez is working the ground and pound here and the referee is taking a close look at Barry. He must escape soon or this one will be stopped.
Barry is very frustrated here, being controlled quite effectively by Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is landing with strikes. Barry can't take much more of this.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Rodriguez scores with punches from the back.
Rodriguez lands with a nice looking elbow that stuns Barry.
Rodriguez looking to soften up his opponent with punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Barry is trapped and Rodriguez is scoring with shots to the head and body.
Rodriguez punches Barry on the ear.
Rodriguez is landing with strikes. Barry can't take much more of this.
Barry is covering up but some of the strikes from Rodriguez are getting through and doing damage.
Barry holding both Rodriguez 's hands and preventing any damage.
Rodriguez is scoring with a succession of shots from the back. Barry is covering up - he's had enough and the ref steps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Diego Rodriguez!
Diego Rodriguez retains his welterweight title!
After the fight, Diego Rodriguez was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.