PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Manny Tavares (ranked 1712 p4p, 5449 weight class) and Salyn Sarethi (ranked 187 p4p, 491 weight class). Sarethi has chosen Blue Ice as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Tavares
vs
Sarethi

183 cm
34
185
25 - 17 - 1

187 cm
37
190
24 - 20 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 25 - 17 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Manny Tavares!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 24 - 20 - 0, fighting out of New York, Salyn Sarethi!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Phil Schofield and Steven Brown.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sarethi drives through and clinches with Tavares against the cage.
Sarethi lands with a short shot to the head.
Tavares misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Sarethi tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Sarethi misses with a punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Sarethi.
Tavares lands a right hand.
I was talking to Tavares's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Tavares blocking some punches.
Tavares swings wildly with an uppercut but Sarethi uses good head movement to avoid it.

Tavares manages to break the clinch.
Salyn Sarethi seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Nice jab there from Tavares.
Sarethi throws a series of punches but Tavares avoids them all with ease.
Tavares misses with a hook.

Sarethi gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Tavares lands a body punch in the clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sarethi throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Tavaress head.
Nice body punch from Tavares.
A head punch on the inside from Sarethi fails to land.
Sarethi lands with a left to the head.
Tavares scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Tavares misses with a body punch.
A short body shot lands from Tavares as the two fighters clinch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Tavares.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sarethi's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Sarethi has a couple of punches blocked by Tavares.
Tavares blocks a body shot from Sarethi.
Sarethi throws a head punch that misses.
A short right from Tavares on the inside.
Sarethi struggles to land a body shot inside as Tavares controls his hands.

Tavares breaks the clinch.
Tavares lands the left hand.

It looks like Salyn Sarethi has been cut.
A big left from Tavares misses.
Sarethi missing with a left hand there. Tavares was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Tavares circles away from the clinch attempt.
Sarethi slips under a jab from Tavares.
Sarethi keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Tavares.
Sarethi avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Tavares goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Sarethi smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Sarethi tries to clinch up.
Sarethi avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Sarethi feints and then cracks Tavares's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Tavares down.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Tavares lands an overhand right.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tavares cracks Sarethi with a right hand to the side of the head.
Tavares uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Sarethi has time to react.

Sarethi is rocked!
Sarethi misses with a head kick.
And Tavares counters with a quick kick to the body but Sarethi blocks it.
Sarethi is still on wobbly legs! Can Tavares finish him?
Sarethi misses with an uppercut
and Tavares counters with a good low kick that Sarethi was not able to check.
Tavares drops Sarethi with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Sarethi! Tavares dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Manny Tavares!
Our winner, Manny Tavares, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.