PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricky Steamboat (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Maximiliano Meridius (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Steamboat comes to the cage accompanied by Lorde - Tennis Court. Meridius is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Turn Down for What . Maximiliano Meridius has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Steamboat
vs
Meridius

180 cm
29
212 lbs
11 - 4 - 0

187 cm
24
204 lbs
6 - 2 - 1

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Bullet Proof System
Voodoo Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ricky Steamboat!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Maximiliano Meridius!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Edson Gomes and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Steamboat shoots in looking for a takedown but Meridius manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Steamboat's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.
Meridius throws out a counter right but Steamboat avoids it with no problem.
Meridius connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Meridius turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.

Steamboat fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Meridius to the ground. Steamboat is now in Meridius's guard.
Steamboat tries to free his leg and advance position but Meridius is retaining full guard.
Steamboat passes Meridius's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Meridius taking some punishment here, with Steamboat in his half guard.
Meridius tries to roll over but Steamboat keeps him under control.
Steamboat working the head and body with strikes.
Steamboat working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

Meridius is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Steamboat pulls his head out easily.
Meridius regains full guard. Nicely done.
We've been hearing that Steamboat has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Steamboat advances position into side control!
Steamboat landing a few strikes.
Meridius tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Steamboat lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Meridius down.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Meridius is looking for a sweep.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Steamboat lands a nice forearm strike.
Meridius tries to buck Steamboat off but Steamboat is having none of it.
Steamboat has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Steamboat with shots to the head and body - Meridius looks very uncomfortable down there.
Meridius is working to get back to half guard.
Steamboat is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Meridius can't stay in a position like this for much longer.

Meridius is rocked!
Steamboat postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Meridius bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Steamboat and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricky Steamboat!
Ricky Steamboat retains his light heavyweight title!
An intense looking Ricky Steamboat took to the microphone post fight and gave a little speech: 'I want to thank God for giving me the ability to fight I want to thank the fans for supporting me also my coaches Thank you to Everyone and My sponsor Bullet Proof System'.