PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marco Basa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Charlie Cosades (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Charlie Cosades acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Basa
vs
Cosades

182 cm
20
215 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

188 cm
21
209 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Marco Basa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Charlie Cosades!
The judges for this bout are Paul Gruel, Chris Saunders and Micheangelo Fripello.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Basa waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Cosades.
Cosades throws out a loose jab but Basa uses good head movement to avoid it.
Basa throws a poor cross that misses

and Cosades counters with a takedown into side control.
Basa is trying to improve his position.
Cosades tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Basa is not content to let Cosades control the position.
Basa defending against the ground and pound.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Basa is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Cosades working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Basa gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cosades looking to finish with strikes here!
Cosades landing strikes from the mount.
Cosades landing strikes, looking to finish!
Basa tries to lock up and control but Cosades gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
Cosades trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Cosades lands a big elbow.
Cosades controlling the position easily from mount.
Basa wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Cosades.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Basa is wriggling around trying to escape.
Cosades trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Cosades looking to finish Basa with some ground and pound. This is bad for Basa!
Cosades tries to control but Basa wriggling away.
Cosades throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cosades looking to control but Basa is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Basa holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Cosades tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Cosades landing shots from mount.
Basa tries to reverse the position but Cosades maintains control.
Cosades raining down hammerfists from mount.
Basa could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Cosades lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Basa hang on?
Cosades lands a big elbow.

Basa is rocked!
Cosades controlling the position easily from mount.
Cosades looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Oh Basa is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cosades postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Basa in real trouble here! The ref calls for Basa to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Charlie Cosades!
A very excited looking Charlie Cosades made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.