PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Ritchie Blackmore (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fabio Villegas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Blackmore comes to the cage accompanied by 16th century greensleeves. Fabio Villegas is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Blackmore
vs
Villegas

180 cm
31
197 lbs
8 - 8 - 0

184 cm
33
192 lbs
12 - 16 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Good kicks
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ritchie Blackmore!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Fabio Villegas!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Hirohito Nitta and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Villegas on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Blackmore. Blackmore obviously looking to wear him down.
Villegas will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Blackmore looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Villegas drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Blackmore scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Blackmore misses the shot to the body.
Villegas lands a jab to Blackmore's midsection.
Good leg kick by Blackmore there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Blackmore turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Blackmore lands with a nice body kick.
Blackmore lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nice body kick from Blackmore.
Ritchie Blackmore seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Blackmore lands a body shot.
Blackmore fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.

It looks like Fabio Villegas has been cut.
Good standup being displayed there by Blackmore as he connects with a hook.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A big left from Blackmore misses.
Villegas on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Villegas misses with a looping left.
Blackmore scores with a punch to the head.
Nice body kick from Blackmore.
Decent striking displayed by Blackmore there.
Villegas takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Villegas misses with a combination
and Blackmore counters with a leg kick.
Blackmore throws a big shot that misses.

Blackmore drives through and clinches with Villegas against the cage.
Blackmore digs a right hand into Villegas's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Villegas's gas tank.
Blackmore working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Villegas working hard to break the clinch.
Blackmore throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Villegass head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Villegas jumps guard but Blackmore turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Villegas is looking to break free of the clinch but Blackmore has double underhooks.
I was talking to Blackmore's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Blackmore lands a body shot in the clinch.
Blackmore lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Blackmore lands a left hand that snaps the head of Villegas backwards.
Blackmore unloads a knee to the mid-section. Villegas lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Villegas looks winded!
A nice right hand lands inside from Blackmore.
A left hand lands to the body for Blackmore.
A body shot lands from Blackmore.
Blackmore lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Villegas is rocked!
Blackmore makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Villegas is still on wobbly legs! Can Blackmore finish him?
Blackmore cracks Villegas with a nice body shot.
Blackmore lands a hook that snaps the head of Villegas backwards.
Blackmore lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Blackmore throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Villegass head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Blackmore lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Blackmore lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Villegas.
Blackmore lands a nice elbow.
Blackmore lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Villegas backwards.
Blackmore creates a bit of distance and unloads a huge uppercut that knocks Villegas out cold! The ref dives in to break up the two fighters! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Ritchie Blackmore!
A relieved looking Ritchie Blackmore thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.