PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Paulo Roberto (ranked 2032 p4p, 1533 weight class) and Mario Santos (ranked 215 p4p, 168 weight class). Roberto comes to the cage accompanied by Samba de Roda. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Roberto
vs
Santos

173 cm
24
149
7 - 2 - 2

173 cm
25
145
10 - 6 - 1

Decent wrestler
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

BE Younick

Brooklyn Apothecary
Brooklyn Threads

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 2, fighting out of Tokyo, Paulo Roberto!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 6 - 1, fighting out of New York, Mario Santos!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, William Peck and Elvis Blanc.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santos connects with a body shot.
Santos jabs. That one connects to the head of his opponent.

Santos has Roberto up against the cage in a clinch.
Santos lands with a short shot to the head.
Roberto missing with knees to the body.
Santos misses with a hook to the ribs.
A short right from Santos.
Santos blocks a body shot from Roberto.
Santos blocking some punches.

Santos breaks from the clinch.
Santos throws a lazy uppercut
and Roberto counters with a lovely straight right hand!
A big left from Roberto misses.

Santos closes the distance and clinches.

Santos breaks the clinch.
Roberto seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Roberto jabs Santos right on the nose. Santos blinks but takes it well.
Roberto swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Santos has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Santos throws the left hand but Roberto avoids the punch easily.
Roberto is looking to counter punch.
Santos takes one to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Roberto circles away quickly and effectively.
Santos fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Santos throws a right hand that misses
and Roberto counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
A lazy left from Santos finds it's target.
Roberto takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Roberto connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Santos swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Santos moves out of range of the strikes.
Santos swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Santos moves out of range of the strikes.
Santos looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Roberto misses with a left hand
letting Santos counter with a right hand.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Roberto throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.

Santos drives through and clinches with Roberto against the cage.
Roberto misses with a body punch.
Roberto wants to break free but Santos has control.
Roberto blocks a couple of punches on the inside.

Santos breaks the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Roberto staying out of range there.
Santos staying out of range there.
Santos uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Roberto.
Roberto swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Roberto jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Santos doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Roberto avoids a punch combination nicely.

Santos clinches.
Santos throws a head punch that misses.
Santos throws a head punch that misses.

Santos's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Santos misses with a right hand
and Roberto counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.

Santos instigates a clinch.
Santos misses with a hook from the clinch.
Roberto misses with a hook from the clinch.

Roberto manages to break the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santos loads up on a big right hand but Roberto slips the punch.

Santos darts in and clinches Roberto up against the cage.
Santos struggles to land a body shot inside as Roberto controls his hands.
Santos lands with a right to the head.
Roberto lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Santos backwards.
A nice right hand lands inside from Roberto.

Santos breaks from the clinch.
A looping hook to the body misses from Roberto. Santos does a little dance to reset his feet.

Santos moves into range and clinches up with Roberto.
Santos lands with a left to the head.
A short left from Roberto.
Santos displaying some good clinch control by pressing Roberto up against the cage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Roberto.
Roberto blocks an uppercut.
Santos's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Roberto is working Santos over against the cage.
Santos softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Roberto lands with a left to the head.

Santos is rocked!
Roberto makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Santos is still on wobbly legs! Can Roberto finish him?
Roberto lands a big right hand that drops Santos! The killer instinct kicks in and Roberto finishes his opponent with a series of strikes from mount. A dominating finish by Roberto!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Paulo Roberto!
A less than humble Paulo Roberto misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.