PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Pablo Roberto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Reckuva Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Roberto comes into the arena with Dead By April - Trapped blaring out of the sound system. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Roberto
vs
Gracie

180 cm
23
165 lbs
1 - 2 - 1

174 cm
20
162 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Prefers ground

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin

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 1 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Pablo Roberto!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Reckuva Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Edson Gomes, Leandro Rodrigues and Felipe Paraventi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Roberto is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Roberto throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Roberto lands a two punch combo.
Gracie blocks a leg kick.
An inside leg kick from Gracie misses.

Roberto feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.

Roberto avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Gracie preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Gracie looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Gracie not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Gracie looking for a sweep. Not yet Gracie, not yet.
Roberto looking to pass the guard.
Gracie working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Roberto.
Gracie looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Jab by Roberto.
Roberto misses the jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roberto scores with the left hand. Gracie knows he should have avoided that one.

Roberto looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Gracie!
Gracie is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Roberto working Gracie over with strikes here.

Gracie is rocked!
Roberto has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Gracie looks gassed!
Roberto controlling from mount.
Gracie is still in real trouble! Can Roberto finish him?
Roberto connects with a bit shot that sees Gracie covering up! More strikes from Roberto and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Roberto is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Pablo Roberto!