PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Raul Sanchez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and dana o brian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Sanchez
vs
o brian

168 cm
20
140 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

177 cm
22
131 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Raul Sanchez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, dana o brian!
The judges for this bout are Steve Erwin, Summer Carpenter and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

o brian closes the distance and clinches.

Sanchez breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Sanchez pulls out of a head kick attempt.
o brian is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.

Sanchez has o brian up against the cage in a clinch.
o brian is working for takedown but Sanchez is calmly controlling the position for now.
Sanchez gets underhooks to prevent o brian's takedown attempt.

Sanchez pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
o brian takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Raul Sanchez seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
o brian tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Sanchez counters with an outside leg kick.
Sanchez misses with a series of wild punches.
A big left from Sanchez misses.
Sanchez displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from o brian.
Raul Sanchez has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of dana o brian.
Sanchez throws a head kick that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab from Sanchez does it's job there.
o brian takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
o brian slips a jab and a cross from Sanchez.
o brian shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Sanchez defends it nicely.
o brian looks gassed!

Sanchez lands a big head kick that sends o brian tumbling to the mat! Sanchez takes a step backwards and waves o brian back to his feet - he wants the finish!

o brian is rocked!

It looks like dana o brian has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sanchez scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
o brian is still on wobbly legs! Can Sanchez finish him?
Sanchez throws a quick inside leg kick.
o brian seems to have recovered his senses.
Sanchez lands with a jab that stuns his opponent. o brian is looking to close the distance but Sanchez sees it coming and throws a beautiful knee! o brian crumbles to the mat and that's all she wrote! Let's hope o brian is OK because that was naaaaaasty!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Knee). Raul Sanchez!