PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Caio Almeida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sena Machida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Almeida comes to the cage accompanied by Blink 182 - Dammit. Machida has chosen Face The Pain as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Almeida
vs
Machida

182 cm
21
200 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
205 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

Mundo Green - World Verde

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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Caio Almeida!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Sena Machida!
The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Seu Braga and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Machida looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Almeida misses with a wild combination.
Almeida keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
A left and a right from Almeida both land. Nice combination.

It looks like Sena Machida has been cut.
Machida will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Caio Almeida has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Sena Machida.
Machida looks gassed!

Almeida has Machida up against the cage in a clinch.
Machida jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Almeida walks away with a smile on his face. Machida gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.

Almeida gets a takedown into half guard.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Almeida winds up and cracks Machida with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Almeida is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Almeida scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Machida?

That's one minute gone in the round.
Almeida controlling the pace for now.
The referee warns Machida that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Almeida raining down shots from the mount!

Machida is rocked!
Almeida looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Machida covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Caio Almeida!
Caio Almeida retains his light heavyweight title!