PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brock Benjamin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sergio Sarulo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Benjamin
vs
Sarulo

190 cm
19
222 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
25
220 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Tends to cut

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 Sydney, Brock Benjamin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Sergio Sarulo!
The judges for this bout are Chris Dean, Winston Howard and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sarulo misses with a jab, cross combination.
Benjamin moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Benjamin cracks the inside of Sarulo's front leg.
Benjamin slips a jab and a cross from Sarulo.
Benjamin attempts a counter takedown but Sarulo avoids it well and moves away.
Sarulo throws a series of punches but Benjamin moves out of range.
Benjamin showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Sarulo.
Benjamin has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Benjamin there as he acknowledges the shot.
Jab, jab by Sarulo - just one landing.
Benjamin swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Sarulo looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Sarulo lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Benjamin circles away quickly and effectively.
As Sarulo tries to get set, Benjamin tries to push him back and clinch up but Sarulo manages to avoid the attempt.
Sarulo misses with a wild body shot.
A decent looking cross lands there for Sarulo.
Sarulo lands a jab-cross combination.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sarulo scores with a jab to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Benjamin takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Benjamin looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
A combination from Sarulo does no damage.
It appears Benjamin was looking to counter with a kick there.
Benjamin slips a jab and a cross from Sarulo.
Sarulo throws a one two combo.
Benjamin on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Sarulo swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Benjamin just misses with a punch to the body.
Benjamin misses with a two punch combination.
Sarulo lands a jab-cross combination.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Sarulo lands with a cross.
Benjamin lands a nice leg kick that just misses Sarulo's sensitive parts.
Sarulo takes a swing at Benjamin's ribcage but misses.
Benjamin feinted with a counter takedown.
Benjamin misses with a wild combination.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sarulo clobbers Benjamin with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Sarulo ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Sarulo avoids the body shot from Benjamin.
Sarulo lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Sarulo misses with a two punch combination.
Sarulo is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Benjamin had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Sarulo tests Benjamin's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Sarulo misses with a series of wild punches.
Sarulo with a nice cross.
Sarulo lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Sarulo uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Benjamin.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Benjamin connects with a leg kick. Sarulo looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Sergio Sarulo is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Sarulo misses with an uppercut
and Benjamin counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Benjamin throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Benjamin missing with a left hand there. Sarulo was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.

Benjamin closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Sarulo did well to prevent Benjamin getting side control.
Well, if Benjamin is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.

Sarulo actively working from the bottom here.
Nice strikes from Benjamin there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Benjamin looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Sarulo with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Sarulo moves into full guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Benjamin postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Benjamin knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Sarulo on the ground.
Benjamin arches his back and unloads with a massive left and a right! Sarulo's eyes roll back into his head, he's out cold! The ref dives in to stop the fight - wow, they were hard shots!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Brock Benjamin!