PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alex Headers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricky Dias (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Headers
vs
Dias

200 cm
22
268 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

195 cm
19
260 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Good knees
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Alex Headers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ricky Dias!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, Eddie Farnsworth and Lou da Vinci.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dias tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Headers avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Nice uppercut there from Dias.
Dias is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Dias lands the left hand.
Dias stalks Headers and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Headers's face. Headers staggers backwards, shaken.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Dias rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Headers moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Dias thows a body shot but no joy.
Dias doesn't manage to clinch there - Headers circles away.
Dias scores with a jab. Headers acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Headers blocks a jab.
Dias is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Headers.
Dias tries to clinch but Headers moves out of range.
Dias misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Headers.
Dias slaps away a takedown attempt from Headers, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Dias tries to clinch there but Headers circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice uppercut lands for Dias. That snapped Headers's head back.

Dias lands a left and a right that send Headers crashing to the mat, dazed. Dias thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Dias misses with an uppercut. Headers saw that one coming.
Dias tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Headers paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Headers keeps the fight on the outside.
Dias fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dias is looking to clinch but Headers is avoiding it.
Headers shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Dias is looking to clinch but Headers is avoiding it.
Headers uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Dias.
Dias throws a hook but Headers blocks it.
Dias is looking to clinch but Headers is avoiding it.
Dias tries to close the distance and clinch up but Headers swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Dias fails in his attempt to clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dias tries to clinch up but Headers circles away and keeps his distance.
Headers moves out of range of the strikes.
Headers throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Dias's waist but Dias gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Headers off to one side.
Headers showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Dias.
Dias tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Headers paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Dias throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Dias wants to clinch.
Dias tries to clinch up.
Headers blocks a jab.
Dias dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Headers takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Headers is breathing heavily.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dias works the jab nicely.
Dias tries to close the distance and clinch up but Headers swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Headers misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Alex Headers. That's going to take a lot out of him.
The fight stays on the outside here - Dias looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
This is turning into a torrid day at the office for Headers. He's trying desperately to land a takedown but he's failing miserably and getting slapped silly on the feet to compound his misery.
Dias lands with a nice body punch.
Headers avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Headers fails with a takedown attempt.
Dias takes a swing at Headers's ribcage but misses.
Headers keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Dias.
Ricky Dias is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Dias avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Ricky Dias seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Dias moves in looking to clinch but Headers pushes him off.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Headers avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Dias pushes Headers up against the cage in a clinch.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Headers takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Headers gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Dias lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Dias lands a body shot in the clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Dias is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Headers is keeping busy.
Headers tries to break the clinch but Dias is controlling the position.

Headers pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Headers takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Headers circles away from the clinch attempt.
Headers circles away from the clinch attempt.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Dias lands a big right hand that sends Headers crashing to the mat! Dias stays standing though and waves Headers back to his feet!
Dias misses with a double jab.
Dias is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ricky Dias dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Dias swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Dias is looking to clinch but Headers is avoiding it.
Dias has been the more effective fighter overall so far.

Dias lands a left and a right that send Headers crashing to the mat, dazed. Dias thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Headers is rocked!
Dias clinches but Headers breaks the clinch
and Headers counters with a left and a right that stings Dias.
Dias tries to clinch up
and Headers counters with a head kick.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Headers takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
A big left from Dias misses.
Headers takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Dias throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Headers on the side of the head.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Dias misses with a body shot.

Dias feints and then winds up with a huge right hand that connects perfectly and sends Headers sprawling to the canvas! Headers rolls over backwards and springs off the cage and manages to regain his footing - how acrobatic! Oh, he's still wobbly - can Dias finish him?!
Oh Headers is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dias lands with a massive overhand right! Stick a fork in Headers - he's out cold! Ermm... I think I just mixed my metaphors but yeah... That was a nice KO! Big win for Dias!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:10 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Ricky Dias!