PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Diego Nogueira (ranked 1477 p4p, 1470 weight class) and Abdullah Zaire (ranked 210 p4p, 208 weight class). Nogueira comes to the cage accompanied by Bloodthirsty. Zaire has chosen Hypnotize U by N*E*R*D as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Abdullah Zaire has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Nogueira
vs
Zaire

190 cm
27
215
6 - 4 - 0

189 cm
42
206
26 - 19 - 1

Great wrestler
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin

30th Century Beer Store

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Diego Nogueira!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 26 - 19 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Abdullah Zaire!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Chris Edwards and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Nogueira shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Nogueira works his way into side control.
Nogueira trying to control the action but Zaire is working from the bottom.

Nogueira looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Nogueira trying to control the position but Zaire is working away.

Nogueira is working for what looks like an arm triangle here. Zaire is trying to escape and Nogueira transitions quickly into an armbar! He's slapped it on tight and Zaire is forced to tap! Nice work there by Nogueira! Very nice indeed!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Diego Nogueira!
Diego Nogueira is the new light heavyweight champion!
A victorious Diego Nogueira thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.