PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Dan Hardy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rusty Ricardo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Hardy
vs
Ricardo

177 cm
21
185 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

183 cm
18
190 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Spartan Fight Gear - Rio

Nemesis Cage Clothing

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Dan Hardy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Rusty Ricardo!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Ricardo drops Hardy with a right and a left! Ricardo comes rushing in but Hardy regains his composure and manages to keep Ricardo in guard.

Hardy is rocked!

It looks like Dan Hardy has been cut.
Ricardo loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Oh Hardy is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Ricardo postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Ricardo advances to half guard.
Hardy is breathing heavily.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Ricardo thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Hardy seems to have got his legs back now.

Ricardo is working for a kimura but Hardy is defending it quite comfortably.
Hardy won't allow Ricardo to pass to mount.
Ricardo working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Ricardo lands strikes from half guard.
Ricardo scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Ricardo missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Hardy is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Ricardo scores with a couple of nice shots.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hardy keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

Ricardo is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Ricardo throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Ricardo is pressing down on Hardy's thigh, looking to free his foot. Hardy is holding on for now.
Hardy avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Ricardo.
Hardy taking some punishment here, with Ricardo in his half guard.
Ricardo missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Ricardo moves nicely into side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hardy gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
A nice elbow there by Ricardo.
Ricardo working the ground and pound effectively.

Hardy defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Ricardo.
Ricardo landing punches.
Ricardo unloads with some shots from mount but Hardy bucks and avoids them well.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hardy throwing hammer fists to the chest of Ricardo. What's that going to do exactly?
Ricardo lands with some strikes.
Ricardo fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

Hardy is flailing around, obviously not happy about being mounted. Ricardo locks hold of one of his arms and spins for an armbar. He's got it! Hardy is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Rusty Ricardo!