PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Thiago Oliveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bubba Rugowski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Oliveira
vs
Rugowski

195 cm
28
280 lbs
14 - 14 - 0

225 cm
37
277 lbs
31 - 14 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thiago Oliveira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 14 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Bubba Rugowski!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Felipe Paraventi and Thiago Cunha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rugowski misses with a body kick.
Rugowski moves into range and connects with a jab.

It looks like Thiago Oliveira has been cut.
Rugowski tries to close the distance and clinch but Oliveira swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

Rugowski takes the fight into the clinch.
Rugowski lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Oliveira backwards.
Rugowski scores with a shot to the side of Oliveira's head.
Oliveira blocks a body shot from Rugowski.
I was talking to Oliveira's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Oliveira takes a shot to the head.
Rugowski working aggressively here.
Oliveira is looking for a takedown.
Oliveira tries to score a body lock takedown but Rugowski shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
We've been informed that Rugowski has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.

Rugowski pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Rugowski ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Oliveira moves away.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Oliveira swats away the attempt to clinch by Rugowski.
Rugowski throws a body kick that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Oliveira tries to clinch up.

Rugowski closes the distance and clinches.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Oliveira.
Oliveira looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

Rugowski breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Rugowski lands a head kick!
Rugowski throws a right hand that Oliveira ducks under and follows up with a left that Oliveira also avoids with ease.
Rugowski throws a lazy head kick
and Oliveira connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Whack! Rugowski lands a heavy head kick that drops Oliveira. The ref tackles Rugowski to stop the fight - a great save by the referee because Oliveira was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Bubba Rugowski!
Bubba Rugowski decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.