PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Silvio Padovesi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dan Paunescu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Padovesi
vs
Paunescu

175 cm
25
210 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

188 cm
25
202 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Prefers standup

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Silvio Padovesi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Dan Paunescu!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Sandra Marshall and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Paunescu pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Paunescu jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Padovesi displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Paunescu throws out the jab.
Paunescu throws a lazy right hand but Padovesi sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Padovesi wants to take advantage of his opponent's missed offense by moving into the clinch.
Paunescu connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Padovesi tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Paunescu manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Padovesi tries to clinch but Paunescu is having none of it.
Paunescu throws a jab when Padovesi was well out of range.
Paunescu uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Padovesi.
Dan Paunescu seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Padovesi ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Padovesi throwing a counter right hand but Paunescu manages to avoid it.
Padovesi could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Paunescu lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
A swing and a miss from Padovesi.
Paunescu throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Paunescu throws a big shot that misses.
A jab from Padovesi misses.
Paunescu looks to land a left hand but Padovesi moved out of range nicely.
Paunescu lands a head shot.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Paunescu looks to throw the jab but Padovesi is out of range.
Paunescu throws out a loose jab but Padovesi uses good head movement to avoid it.
Padovesi slips under a jab from Paunescu.
Paunescu is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Padovesi swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Paunescu.
Paunescu might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Padovesi steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Paunescu.

Paunescu lands a big uppercut and Padovesi crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Padovesi looks OK. Paunescu waves Padovesi back to his feet!

Padovesi is rocked!

It looks like Silvio Padovesi has been cut.
Paunescu misses with a straight left.
Padovesi was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
Oh Padovesi is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Paunescu fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Padovesi ducks into an uppercut from Paunescu and that's knocked him out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Dan Paunescu!
A very excited looking Dan Paunescu rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.