PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Oscar Hernandez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Urijah Faber (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hernandez's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Cocteau Twins - Song to the Siren. Urijah Faber struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 156.3lbs 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. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Hernandez
vs
Faber

185 cm
25
162 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

168 cm
23
166 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good takedowns
Brawler
Granite chin

KING NUTRITION

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Oscar Hernandez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Urijah Faber!
The judges for this bout are Eddie Farnsworth, Lou da Vinci and Jonathan Paton.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Faber shoots in but Hernandez avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Hernandez feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Faber's calf.
No luck for Faber with that takedown attempt.
Hernandez lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Faber backs up against the cage.

It looks like Urijah Faber has been cut.
Hernandez stuffs the takedown attempt from Faber. Faber gets slowly back to his feet.
Oscar Hernandez has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Urijah Faber.
Hernandez leaves Faber with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Faber looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Hernandez is fending him off so far but Faber persists. Nope, Hernandez circles away and we're back to standing.
Faber looks gassed!
Faber shoots in for a takedown but Hernandez shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Faber shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Hernandez sprawls well. Hernandez wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Faber gets slowly back to his feet.
Hernandez cracks a nice hook into Faber's ribs.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Hernandez clinches up against the cage.

Hernandez breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hernandez fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Faber on the side of the head.
Faber is trying desperately to land a takedown but Hernandez is having absolutely none of it. This is turning into a bit of a nightmare for Faber.
Hernandez lands a two punch combo.
Urijah Faber seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Faber takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.

Faber is rocked!

That has opened up Urijah Faber's cut even more.
Hernandez lands with a massive overhand right! Stick a fork in Faber - he's out cold! Ermm... I think I just mixed my metaphors but yeah... That was a nice KO! Big win for Hernandez!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Oscar Hernandez!