PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Anthony Placencia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Curt Wooten (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Placencia comes to the cage accompanied by Eminem - The Monster Ft. Rihanna. Wooten has chosen Hall Of Fame as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Placencia
vs
Wooten

178 cm
27
155 lbs
5 - 6 - 0

180 cm
24
157 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 6 - 0, fighting out of New York, Anthony Placencia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Curt Wooten!
The judges for this bout are Ryoma Takatsuka, Jeff Smith and Micheangelo Fripello.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Placencia connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.

Placencia closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.

Placencia gets a nice trip takedown into half guard.

Wooten is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Placencia pulls his head out easily.
Ground and pound from Placencia.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Wooten wants to get back to full guard.

Wooten is defending against the submission attempts here by Placencia.
Placencia scoring with strikes to the body and head.

Wooten looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Wooten looks winded!

Placencia is looking for a kimura but Wooten is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Placencia to get the leverage.
Wooten trying to control from the bottom.
Placencia lands strikes from half guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Placencia is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Placencia is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Placencia takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Placencia working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

Wooten is rocked!
Placencia is nestled in close to Wooten, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Wooten is still in real trouble! Can Placencia finish him?
Wooten on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.

Wooten is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Placencia pulls his head out easily.
Placencia scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Placencia lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Wooten quite badly. Wooten pulls Placencia in close trying to recover. Placencia postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Wooten on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Wooten doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Anthony Placencia!
Anthony Placencia looked relieved post fight as he said the following; 'This Is It. Its Here Baby..'.