PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Konrad Curze (ranked 7328 p4p, 573 weight class) and Ricco Torres (ranked 4185 p4p, 425 weight class). Curze comes to the cage accompanied by RIse of the Night Haunter. Ricco Torres has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Curze
vs
Torres

215 cm
21
268 lbs
3 - 7 - 0

196 cm
23
275 lbs
2 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Lethal high kicks
Experienced

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Konrad Curze!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ricco Torres!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Tarja Halkonen and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Torres just misses with a punch to the body.

Curze fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Torres to the ground. Curze is now in Torres's guard.
Torres keeping full guard, as Curze tries to pass.
Curze wants to control from the top but Torres keeps moving.
Curze advances to half guard.

Curze is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
Torres keeping control of the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Curze wants to pass to mount but Torres is defending the position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Curze is stalling here. Torres is in no mood to hang around though. He's locked up a kimura from the bottom! Curze seems to be keeping calm but he's forced to roll out of the hold and Torres has ended up in side control on the top. Nice work.
A control attempt from Curze but he's now mounted!
Curze is squirming around, avoiding Torres's attempts to control the action.
Torres lands a heavy elbow.
Torres cracks Curze with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

Curze is rocked!
Torres connects with a bit shot that sees Curze covering up! More strikes from Torres and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Torres is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricco Torres!