PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Omar Badari (ranked 3699 p4p, 3021 weight class) and Ross Rhea (ranked 461 p4p, 387 weight class). Badari's entrance music is ?. A fine choice. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Badari
vs
Rhea

180 cm
26
212
2 - 2 - 0

191 cm
19
216
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Good knees
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Finnish Elite Extreme Science

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Omar Badari!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ross Rhea!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Arvi Lind and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Badari moves into the clinch successfully.
Rhea is working for takedown but Badari is calmly controlling the position for now.
Badari tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Badari lands a nice uppercut.
Rhea avoids a wild elbow strike from Badari.
Rhea wants to break free but Badari has control.
Badari landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Badari landing knees to the body.
Rhea takes an elbow to the forehead.

It looks like Ross Rhea has been cut.
Badari misses with a knee to the head.
Rhea tries to circle away but Badari has him pinned against the cage.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Badari scores with a hook to the body.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Badari obliges.
Badari lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Rhea backwards.
Rhea managing to block the knees to the body from Badari.
Badari scores a nice knee to the body.
Rhea looks winded!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Badari scores with a knee to the head.
Badari unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Badari creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Rhea's defenses.
Badari with a knee to the head.
A short uppercut from Badari.
Badari lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Badari landing knees to the head.
Badari connects with a knee to the head.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Badari obliges.
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!
A short left from Badari.
A short body shot lands from Badari as the two fighters clinch.
Badari scores with a shot to the side of Rhea's head.
Badari lands a nice elbow.

That has opened up Ross Rhea's cut even more.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Badari landing knees to the body.
Badari landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
A nice right hand lands inside from Badari.
Badari landing knees to the head.
Rhea takes a knee to the side of the body.
A nice left hand lands by Badari.
Badari lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Rhea is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Rhea is trying to break the clinch but Badari is controlling him.
Badari has Rhea pressed against the cage, preventing Rhea from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Rhea takes a knee right on the jaw!
Rhea wants to break free but Badari has control.
Rhea takes a shot to the head.
Rhea stalling against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rhea has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Rhea is trying to pull guard but being pressed up against the cage enables Badari to keep the fight standing.
Knees to the body from Badari.
Badari utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Badari working Rhea over with knees to the body.
Rhea takes an elbow to the forehead.
Badari landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Badari working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.

The cut above Ross Rhea's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Badari throws a knee to the head but misses.
Badari tries to work over Rhea's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Badari with a knee to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Badari landing knees to the body.
Badari lands an elbow inside that Rhea shrugs off.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Badari lands a body punch.
Rhea takes an elbow to the temple.
Knees in the clinch landing for Badari.
Badari crunches a lovely knee into Rhea's ribcage.
Nice elbow from Badari.

Ross Rhea's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Ross Rhea's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Omar Badari!
Omar Badari bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.