PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Barron White (ranked 332 p4p, 373 weight class) and Yago Nascimento (ranked 45 p4p, 51 weight class). Nascimento has chosen Aggressive War Epic Music Collection! as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. White has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Yago Nascimento acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

White
vs
Nascimento

194 cm
35
270
31 - 14 - 1

195 cm
36
278
31 - 15 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Conviction
Brooklyn Apothecary

Shadow Realm Apparel

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 31 - 14 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Barron White!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 15 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Yago Nascimento!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Topper Green and Damien Edna.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nascimento with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Nascimento lands with a good body shot.
White drops his hands momentarily and Nascimento takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
White is breathing heavily.
A swing and a miss from Nascimento.
Nascimento lands with a good body shot.
Nascimento scores with a jab to the jaw.
Nice defenses there by Nascimento.
A nice side step and Nascimento releases a counter shot to the body, but it doesn't find it's home.
Nascimento misses with a jab, cross combination.
White misses with a hook
and Nascimento counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Nascimento has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Nascimento throws a shot to the body.
White takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Good standup being displayed there by Nascimento as he connects with a hook.

Nascimento bobbing and weaving well here. And he's unloaded with a massive right hand that drops White! He dives into his guard looking to finish!

White is rocked!
Nascimento loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Oh White is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
White utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
White seems to have got his legs back now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
White working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Nascimento.
Nascimento throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Nascimento slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Nascimento with a flurry of punches that miss.
The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace.
Nascimento in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
White takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Nascimento scores with the left hand. White knows he should have avoided that one.
Nascimento fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and White has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.

Nascimento drops his shoulder and cracks White with a huge uppercut! White goes down! Can Nascimento finish him?

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nascimento working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Nascimento with a flurry of punches that miss.
White working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Nascimento.
Nascimento's corner is telling him to maintain position.
White avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Nascimento is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Nascimento throwing strikes from guard but White blocks nicely.
Nascimento throwing strikes but missing.

The referee has stepped in and called for a break in the action. We'll restart on the feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Nascimento drops White with a big left hand and mounts him. White is in big trouble!
Nascimento thowing strikes but they're hitting the gloves, not doing any damage.
White wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Nascimento.
Nascimento looking to finish with strikes here!
Nascimento looking to finish White with some ground and pound. This is bad for White!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Nascimento punching from mount but White doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Nascimento throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
White avoids a series of strikes thrown by Nascimento.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Nascimento cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nascimento misses with a head shot.
Nascimento throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
White holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Nascimento tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Nascimento lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Nascimento looking to finish with strikes here!
White holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Nascimento tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Nascimento content just to control the position here.
Nascimento unloads with some shots from mount but White bucks and avoids them well.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Yago Nascimento dominated that round.
That's time! White's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Nascimento drops White with a nice combination! Nascimento dives into White's guard, looking to finish!
Barron White has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Nascimento in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Nascimento slows down the pace of the fight, as he sits in guard.
Nascimento is looking to work some ground and pound but White has wrist control.
White working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Nascimento.
Nascimento throwing strikes but missing.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nascimento throws a strike but White rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

Nascimento looking to hit a scissor sweep but White is one step ahead there.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
White is fighting to break Nascimento's control of his arms but Nascimento is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nascimento wants to sweep here but White controlling him for the moment.
Nascimento controlling White's posture.
White won't allow Nascimento to sweep him here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Nascimento wants to control here, rather than go for any submissions from the bottom. At least for now.
Nascimento looking to hit a scissor sweep but White is one step ahead there.
Nascimento has White pulled in close to control his posture.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
Nascimento has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Nascimento lands a body shot.
White drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
White ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Nascimento lands a straight punch to the body, keeping White at a distance.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
White takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Nascimento cracks White with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
It's a brutal combination of punches from Nascimento! White is backing up but he can't get away as Nascimento lands with one final shot to the jaw that drops White and ends the fight. Great knockout.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:16 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Yago Nascimento!
Yago Nascimento seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.