PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mario Taormina (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mamed Mousasi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Taormina
vs
Mousasi

197 cm
23
277 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

187 cm
30
269 lbs
15 - 4 - 1

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Experienced

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Mario Taormina!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 4 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mamed Mousasi!
The judges for this bout are Cecil Peabody, Daniel Franklin and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Taormina dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Mousasi paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Mousasi throws a lazy right hand but Taormina sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Mousasi swats away the attempt to clinch by Taormina.
Taormina closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
No joy there for Taormina, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Taormina on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Taormina swinging wildly here.
Mousasi throws a series of punches but Taormina avoids them all with ease.
Mousasi scores with a leg kick.
Taormina defending well as Mousasi loads up on a big left hand.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Mousasi.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Taormina tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Mousasi lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Mousasi fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Mousasi scores with a hook.
Mousasi misses with a straight right.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Taormina moves in looking to clinch but Mousasi pushes him off.
Mario Taormina seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Mousasi cracks the inside of Taormina's front leg.
Taormina slips under a jab.
Mousasi throws a right and a left that Taormina avoids nicely.
Mousasi scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Taormina doesn't seem bothered though.

Taormina darts in and clinches Mousasi up against the cage.

Mousasi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Mousasi lands a nice leg kick that just misses Taormina's sensitive parts.
Mousasi loads up on a big right hand but Taormina slips the punch.
Mousasi throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Taormina on the side of the head.
Donk. Mousasi catches Taormina right on the button with a cross.
Taormina stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Mousasi.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Mousasi bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Mousasi misses with a low kick.
Taormina with a hook.
Taormina defending well as Mousasi loads up on a big left hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mousasi moves out of range as Taormina strikes.
Mousasi listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Mousasi bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Taormina's head.
Taormina misses with a jab, cross combination.
Taormina fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Taormina throws a series of punches but Mousasi avoids them all with ease.
Taormina throws a combination that misses
and Mousasi makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Taormina is breathing heavily.
A jab lands there for Mousasi.
Mousasi moves into range and connects with a jab.
Mousasi looks to land a left hand but Taormina moved out of range nicely.
Mousasi cracks the inside of Taormina's front leg.
Taormina avoids the body shot from Mousasi.
Mousasi lands a lovely overhand right.
Mousasi lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
A swing and a miss from Mousasi.
Mousasi is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Taormina had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A slapping leg kick lands for Mousasi.
Taormina tries to clinch but Mousasi moves away
and Mousasi counters with a nice uppercut.
Taormina throws a series of punches but Mousasi moves out of range.
Mousasi lands a jab.
Taormina misses with a few strikes there.
Mousasi lands a slapping body shot.
Taormina will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Mousasi connects with an inside leg kick.
Mousasi cracks Taormina with a right hand to the side of the head.
Mousasi connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Mousasi scores with a jab to the body.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Mousasi connects with a single shot there.
Taormina takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Mousasi lands a jab.
Mousasi scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Mousasi lands a glancing blow to the side of Taormina's head.
Taormina throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Mousasi.
Mousasi lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Mousasi lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.

Taormina is rocked!
Mousasi lands an overhand right.
Oh Taormina is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Mousasi throws a shot to the body.
Taormina looks up at the clock. Bad move! Mousasi lands a right hand from hell, dropping Taormina. Mousasi pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mamed Mousasi!