PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Ritchie Li (ranked 2376 p4p, 1789 weight class) and Rafael Benedetti (ranked 255 p4p, 202 weight class). Li comes to the cage accompanied by Till the End. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Li
vs
Benedetti

168 cm
25
155
1 - 0 - 0

175 cm
19
155
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

HELLBENT
The Dirty Needle Project

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ritchie Li!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Rafael Benedetti!
The judges for this bout are Alyssa Summers, Jonathan Paton and Columbo Gatti.

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

Li darts in and clinches Benedetti up against the cage.
Benedetti lands a right hand that snaps the head of Li backwards.
Li tries to land knees in the clinch but Benedetti avoids the damage to the body.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Benedetti.
Benedetti working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Benedetti blocks the elbow strike.
Li definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Li pushes off an throws an elbow but Benedetti leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Benedetti avoiding damage as Li throws knees to the body.
A shot in the inside from Benedetti.
Li using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Li's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Li throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Benedetti on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Li missing with knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Benedetti blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

Benedetti pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Benedetti paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.

Li is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Benedetti ducks down and throws a big overhand right - it lands flush on the jaw, knocking Li out cold! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Rafael Benedetti!
A very excited looking Rafael Benedetti made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.
Ritchie Li was interviewed post fight and said '=('.