PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Moyses Mattos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Javier Gattuso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gattuso has chosen WAR-Low Rider as his entrance music. Both these guys have really solid chins. Will we see a standup war or will they both decide that a knockout is unlikely and try to win the fight elsewhere?

Mattos
vs
Gattuso

206 cm
33
275 lbs
25 - 7 - 0

194 cm
37
212 lbs
34 - 20 - 3

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin

Milwaukee's Best 160 (85% laundry)

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 25 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Moyses Mattos !
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 34 - 20 - 3, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Gattuso!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Thiago Cunha and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mattos lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.

It looks like Javier Gattuso has been cut.
Gattuso waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Mattos .
Gattuso uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Mattos .
Mattos misses with a jab to the body
and Gattuso counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Mattos tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Gattuso counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Gattuso takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Mattos throws an off balance right hand
and Gattuso cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Mattos scores with a three punch combo!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Gattuso slips under a jab.
Mattos moves away from the strike by Gattuso.
Mattos missing with a left hand there. Gattuso was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Mattos dips to his left and cracks Gattuso with an uppercut!
Mattos throws an off balance right hand
and Mattos takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Mattos looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Mattos lands with a hook. Gattuso tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
A looping hook to the body misses from Mattos . Gattuso does a little dance to reset his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mattos wants to clinch.
Gattuso tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Gattuso drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Gattuso dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Gattuso scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Gattuso throws a hook but Mattos avoids it easily.
Mattos is looking to clinch but Gattuso is avoiding it.
Mattos ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Gattuso moves away.
Mattos misses the jab.
Gattuso throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Mattos is looking to counter punch.
A head kick misses from Gattuso.
Gattuso steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Mattos .

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mattos tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Gattuso delivers a nice body kick.
Gattuso has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Gattuso throws a head kick that half lands.

It looks like Moyses Mattos has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Gattuso swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Gattuso tests Mattos 's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Gattuso ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Gattuso takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Mattos misses with a straight right.
Mattos has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Mattos there as he acknowledges the shot.
Gattuso thumps Mattos with a low kick.
Mattos jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Gattuso throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Gattuso gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Mattos closes the distance but Gattuso moves to the side
and Gattuso counters with a lovely straight right hand!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gattuso misses with the combination.
A head kick misses from Gattuso.
Gattuso looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Moyses Mattos seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Gattuso misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Gattuso scores with a nice head shot.
A telegraphed right hand from Mattos misses the target.
Gattuso paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Mattos tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Gattuso manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Mattos will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Mattos lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Mattos cracks a nice hook into Gattuso's ribs.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Mattos instigates a clinch.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Gattuso misses with a short punch on the inside.
Gattuso is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.

Mattos manages to break the clinch.
Gattuso lands with a nice body punch.
Gattuso avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
A big right from Gattuso misses.
Some bone on bone action there as Mattos checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
A combination from Mattos does no damage.
A decent looking cross lands there for Gattuso.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Mattos moves out of range of the body kick.
Gattuso is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Mattos had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Mattos is looking to clinch but Gattuso is avoiding it.
Gattuso jabbing away but nothing is landing.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Javier Gattuso will probably get the nod.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Gattuso throws a right and a left that both miss.
Gattuso swings away with a body shot that misses
and Mattos counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Gattuso misses with a wild combination.
Mattos blocks a head kick by Gattuso.

Mattos fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Gattuso, pushing him back against the cage.
Mattos lands a right hand.

Mattos 's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
A decent looking cross lands there for Gattuso.
Gattuso misses the jab.
Mattos misses with a body shot.
Gattuso swats away the attempt to clinch by Mattos .
A slow jab from Gattuso misses its intended target.
Gattuso is looking to land body kicks.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gattuso looks to throw the jab but Mattos is out of range.
Mattos is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Gattuso.
Mattos misses with a looping right.
Gattuso looks to score with a jab to the body but Mattos is just out of range.

Mattos has taken the fight to the clinch.
Gattuso goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Mattos lands a right hand.
Mattos lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Gattuso looking to stall.
A hook to the body from Mattos .
Mattos misses with a hook from the clinch.
Mattos can't find room to land a body shot as Gattuso controls the action.
Gattuso lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

Mattos breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Gattuso looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Gattuso takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Mattos fails in his attempt to clinch.
Mattos keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Gattuso.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Mattos shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Mattos connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Mattos connects with a jab.
Gattuso loads up on a big right hand but Mattos slips the punch.
Mattos takes a body punch but keeps moving.

Mattos gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Mattos throws a punch but it's blocked by Gattuso.
Mattos on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Mattos pushes Gattuso back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

Mattos breaks the clinch.
Gattuso thows a leg kick but Mattos checks it
and Mattos cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mattos lands with a straight right. Gattuso didn't see that one coming.
Mattos is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Gattuso throws a hook but Mattos blocks it.
Mattos throws a lazy right hand but Gattuso sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Mattos tries to clinch up.
Mattos avoids the head kick by Gattuso.
A punch lands to the side of Mattos 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Mattos looks to land a combination. Gattuso sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
Mattos loads up on a big right hand but Gattuso slips the punch.
Mattos uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Gattuso.
Gattuso throws a combination that misses
and Mattos counters with a straight right hand.
Gattuso throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
A combination from Gattuso does no damage.
Mattos swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Nice body punch from Mattos .

That's four minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Gattuso misses with a head kick.
Gattuso lands with a good body shot.
Mattos is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Mattos tries to close the distance and clinch up but Gattuso swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A little jabbing left from Gattuso on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Mattos connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Mattos throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Gattuso on the side of the head.
Mattos lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Mattos is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Gattuso.
Mattos ducks under a wild hook from Gattuso.
Mattos was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Gattuso throws a leg kick
and Mattos counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

Gattuso is rocked!
Gattuso walks straight into a right hand from Mattos - that's dropped him! Mattos jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Gattuso from any more punishment! Gattuso complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:48 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Moyses Mattos !
Moyses Mattos retains his heavyweight title!
Moyses Mattos decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.