PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Trimagasi Junior (ranked 1529 p4p, 1909 weight class) and Ricardo Morales (ranked 231 p4p, 264 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Junior
vs
Morales

190 cm
23
216
4 - 2 - 0

187 cm
23
208
6 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

PWNAGE

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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Trimagasi Junior!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ricardo Morales!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Percy O'Donnell and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morales misses with a hook to the body
and Junior makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Morales really felt that one!
Junior throws a head kick that misses.
Morales's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Junior connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Morales scrambles back to his feet.
Morales misses with a wild body shot.
Junior scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Morales fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Junior manages to avoid it.
Donk. Morales catches Junior right on the button with a cross.
Junior takes a swing at Morales's ribcage but misses.
Nice body kick there by Junior.
Junior lands with a straight right. Morales didn't see that one coming.
A decent looking cross lands there for Junior.

It looks like Ricardo Morales has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Junior stuns Morales with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Morales's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Junior connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Morales scrambles back to his feet.
Morales swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Junior fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Morales.
Morales scores with the left hand. Junior knows he should have avoided that one.
Morales throws a body punch but Junior moves out of range.
We've been told by Junior's head coaches at Underground Rio that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Morales on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Junior tries to move into range but Morales moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Junior just misses with a punch to the body.
Morales scoring well with a low kick there.
Morales throws a sloppy head kick and Junior moves out of range easily.
Junior checks a low kick from Morales.
Junior throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Junior misses with a body kick.
A countering left hand to the body from Morales misses.
Junior is looking to wear down Morales with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Morales dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Morales has tried to improve his agility in the runup to this fight.
Morales fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Junior manages to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Good shot there by Junior.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Morales looks to score with a jab to the body but Junior is just out of range.
Junior catches Morales with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Junior checks the leg kick nicely there.
Junior slips a straight right by Morales.
Junior throwing a counter right hand but Morales manages to avoid it.
Junior uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Morales.
Morales walks straight into a right hand from Junior - that's dropped him! Junior jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Morales from any more punishment! Morales complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Trimagasi Junior!
Trimagasi Junior thanked the fans post fight for their support.