PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tom Maverick (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Hero (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hero has chosen Viro the Virus – Chris Is Awesome! as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Maverick
vs
Hero

200 cm
26
251 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

193 cm
25
225 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Prefers standup

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Very confident

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 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Tom Maverick!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Chris Hero!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Timothy Bukovac and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Hero rushes Maverick and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Hero is trying to break the clinch but Maverick has him pressed against the cage.
Maverick trying to control the position but instead, Hero has worked for underhooks and has pushed Maverick into the cage.
Maverick pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Maverick throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.

Maverick pulls guard successfully.
Hero won't allow Maverick to sweep him here.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Maverick is on top in guard.
Hero wants to stand up but Maverick is controlling him.
Maverick advances to half guard.

Maverick has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Hero defend it? Maverick steps over the head and cranks it - Hero is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Maverick!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Tom Maverick!
During a confident post fight interview, Tom Maverick thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.