PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Engine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jelfy Valuev (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Engine
vs
Valuev

200 cm
20
300 lbs
4 - 2 - 1

225 cm
23
370 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Very quick

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Engine!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jelfy Valuev!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Daniel Cesar and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Valuev looks to land a combination but Engine avoids it well.
Engine slaps away a takedown attempt from Valuev, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Valuev looks gassed!

Engine closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Engine remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Engine lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Engine in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Engine is chipping away with strikes.
Engine happy to just control the position for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Engine in side control lands a decent elbow.
Engine happy to just control the position for now.
Engine seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Valuev for as long as he can get away with.
Engine has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

The referee stands the fighters back up. Thomas Engine just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.

Engine feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Engine might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Engine is stalling in the full guard.
Engine postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Engine seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.
Engine postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Engine's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Engine controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Engine passes into half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Engine gets to his feet - back to striking we go!

Engine gets a takedown into half guard.
Well, if Engine is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Engine passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Valuev!
Engine is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Valuev can't stay in a position like this for much longer.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Valuev in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Engine lands a heavy elbow.
Engine working the ground and pound effectively.

Valuev is rocked!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Engine controlling his opponent.
Valuev is still in real trouble! Can Engine finish him?
Engine with shots to the head and body - Valuev looks very uncomfortable down there.
Engine controlling from mount.
Engine postures up and throws a big right hand. BOOM! Right on the button! Valuev is out cold - huge knockout for Engine!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Thomas Engine!