PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Edson Bidon Barbosa (ranked 42 p4p, 84 weight class) and Aishah Bin Sari (ranked 9 p4p, 14 weight class). Bin Sari has chosen For Heavy Metal we will die! as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Barbosa
vs
Bin Sari

178 cm
36
155
36 - 19 - 0

170 cm
35
146
23 - 10 - 2

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Paddy's Enhancing Drugs (160Q)
Brooklyn Threads

Paddy's Enhancing Drugs (160Q)
Voodoo Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 36 - 19 - 0, fighting out of New York, Edson Bidon Barbosa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 10 - 2, fighting out of Los Angeles, Aishah Bin Sari!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bin Sari lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Bin Sari just misses with a punch to the body.
Barbosa on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Bin Sari misses with a hook
and Barbosa counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

It looks like Aishah Bin Sari has been cut.
Barbosa has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Barbosa throws a head kick that misses.
Bin Sari jabs Barbosa right on the nose. Barbosa blinks but takes it well.
Bin Sari tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
A head kick misses from Bin Sari.
Bin Sari just manages to avoid a counter high kick fromBarbosa.
Bin Sari looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Bin Sari waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Barbosa.
Nice shot by Bin Sari.
A chopping leg kick lands by Bin Sari.
Bin Sari is looking to score with low kicks.
Bin Sari jabs Barbosa right on the nose. Barbosa blinks but takes it well.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Barbosa takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Bin Sari with a nice cross.
Bin Sari scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A low kick from Bin Sari misses

and Barbosa counters with a crisp one two that drops Bin Sari! Barbosa thinks about following him to the mat for a moment but instead steps back and waves Bin Sari to his feet! Bin Sari is in big trouble!
Bin Sari looks up at the clock. Bad move! Barbosa lands a right hand from hell, dropping Bin Sari. Barbosa pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Edson Bidon Barbosa!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Edson Bidon Barbosa made sure he mentioned Paddy's Enhancing Drugs (160Q), along with how happy he was to win his fight.