PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between steve rawlings (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mario moore (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

rawlings
vs
moore

198 cm
21
285 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
22
295 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Inexperienced

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

StarDust.

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, steve rawlings!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Mario moore!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

moore closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
rawlings misses with a strike from the bottom.
rawlings throwing some weak shots from the bottom that do no damage.
rawlings is looking for a sweep.
moore in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.
rawlings sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
rawlings taking some punishment here, with moore in his half guard.
moore thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
rawlings gets back to full guard.
rawlings could do with loosing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.

rawlings looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.

rawlings pushes moore off and scrambles back to his feet.
moore fails in his attempt to clinch.
rawlings keeps the fight on the outside.
rawlings with a poor takedown

and moore counters with a single leg into guard. rawlings didn't expect that.
rawlings trying to strike off his back.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells moore's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

rawlings looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
rawlings is breathing heavily.
moore landing with the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
moore is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
rawlings preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
moore really doesn't want to stay on the ground with rawlings. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
rawlings working a defensive guard here.
rawlings 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.
moore works over rawlings with some ground and pound from guard.

rawlings looking for a guillotine here but moore defends easily.
moore working some strikes from top position.
moore makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
moore landing some decent shots from guard.

rawlings is rocked!
moore arches his back and unloads with a massive left and a right! rawlings's eyes roll back into his head, he's out cold! The ref dives in to stop the fight - wow, they were hard shots!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Mario moore!