PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lazarus Jones (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ninho De Souza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jones comes to the ring accompanied by Enter Sandman - Metallica. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the ring.

Jones
vs
De Souza

182 cm
22
195 lbs
9 - 6 - 0

178 cm
22
200 lbs
8 - 7 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lazarus Jones!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 7 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ninho De Souza!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Gwen Towbar and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jones showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from De Souza.
De Souza fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
De Souza avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
De Souza closes this distance looking for a takedown but Jones circles away.
Jones misses the jab.

De Souza feints and as Jones raises his hands in defense, De Souza changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Jones bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in De Souza's guard.
De Souza looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Jones trying to control but De Souza is working from the bottom.
Jones is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because De Souza is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Jones landing with the ground and pound.

De Souza working away from the bottom but not quite defensive enough there because Jones has passed into half guard!
Jones controlling the action here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
De Souza wants to improve his position but Jones is controlling well.
Jones drops an elbow to the side of De Souza's head.
De Souza wants to improve his position but Jones is controlling well.
Jones missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

Jones is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, De Souza has managed to free his arm - good work.
De Souza wants to control but Jones is keeping busy.

De Souza looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Jones has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Jones takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Jones trying to control the action but De Souza is working from the bottom.
Jones lands with a punch from half guard.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
De Souza is trying to get back to full guard.
Jones wants to control but De Souza is keeping him busy.
Jones looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks De Souza with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Jones is trying to control. De Souza wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Jones lands with a punch from half guard.
De Souza keeping control of the position.
De Souza trying to control from the bottom.
De Souza is looking to get full guard. It looks like he might be successful but at the last minute Jones jumps into side control!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Lazarus Jones dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

A punch combination from Jones misses.

De Souza looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Jones!
Jones really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
De Souza with a couple of short strikes.
De Souza trying to control but Jones is having none of it.
Jones working to try and regain half guard.
Jones bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Jones is in close to De Souza's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Jones scoring with punches to the head and body.
De Souza looking to hit a scissor sweep but Jones is one step ahead there.

De Souza throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
De Souza is breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jones passes easily into side control. Nice work.
De Souza is looking for a sweep.
Jones works to advance to full mount. De Souza defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
De Souza tries to hold on but Jones pushes him away.
Jones content just to control the position here.
Jones prevents De Souza from getting the reversal.
Jones looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

De Souza is rocked!

It looks like Ninho De Souza has been cut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Oooooh, big shot lands for Jones! De Souza is hurt baaadly! Jones is firing away with more strikes - De Souza is covering up... the ref is warning him to do something. He's just covering up though still and the ref has to step in to end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Lazarus Jones!