PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Everett Covington (ranked 2469 p4p, 3480 weight class) and Renato Oliveira (ranked 313 p4p, 429 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Covington
vs
Oliveira

177 cm
24
159
2 - 0 - 0

178 cm
19
160
6 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Good gas tank

Barry Bonds Performance Enhancers $110 160q Rec&St

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Everett Covington!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Renato Oliveira!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Dmitry Maklakov and Konstantin Menshow.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Oliveira takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Covington circles away from the clinch attempt
and Covington counters with a nice kick to the body.
Oliveira looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.

Oliveira gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Covington just misses with a elbow thrown towards Oliveira's brow.
Covington lands a nice shot to the body.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.

Covington breaks from the clinch.
Oliveira tries to clinch but Covington moves out of range.
Oliveira tries to clinch but Covington moves out of range.
Oliveira tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Covington manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
A looping hook to the body misses from Covington. Oliveira does a little dance to reset his feet.
Oliveira wants to counter with a clinch but Covington pushes him away.

Oliveira clinches with his opponent.
Oliveira fails to pull the fight into his guard.

Oliveira pulls Covington into guard.

Covington thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Covington is pushing down on Oliveira's leg trying to pass to half guard. Oliveira is fighting to maintain full guard but Covington has managed to sneak the leg through.
Covington trying to control the pace.

Oliveira is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Covington pulls his head out easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Covington throwing shots but Oliveira is blocking nicely.

Oliveira is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Covington pulls his head out easily.
Covington is trying to control the action in half guard but Oliveira is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Covington works his way into full mount!
Covington sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Oliveira is desperately trying to improve his position but Covington has a good base and remains in mount.
Covington punishing his opponent with strikes.
Covington has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Covington trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Covington fails to take his opponent's back.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Covington wants to control the pace but Oliveira is squirming around nicely.
Oliveira is looking to get to half guard.
Oliveira keeps trying to improve his position.
Covington trying to control but Oliveira is having none of it.
Oliveira can't escape the position.
Covington can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Oliveira is looking to escape.
Oliveira is in all sorts of trouble here.
Oliveira regains half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Covington is trying for a kimura here. Oliveira looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! Covington wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Everett Covington!
Everett Covington is the new lightweight champion!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Everett Covington made sure he mentioned Barry Bonds Performance Enhancers $110 160q Rec&St, along with how happy he was to win his fight.