PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Chuck Courture (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kevin Soprano (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kevin Soprano struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 206.5lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Chuck Courture looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Courture
vs
Soprano

183 cm
23
210 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

175 cm
22
224 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good takedowns
Brawler
Granite chin

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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Chuck Courture!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Kevin Soprano!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Jack Bonds and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Courture fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Soprano sprawls well initially but Courture persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Soprano works his way to full guard. Good work.
Courture preventing the sweep.
Courture has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

Soprano has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Courture doesn't defend quickly enough and Soprano has managed to lock this one up! Can Courture escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Soprano on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Kevin Soprano!