PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between cucu curu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and nicola karabatic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). cucu curu looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

curu
vs
karabatic

200 cm
18
260 lbs
0 - 9 - 0

210 cm
18
250 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Inexperienced

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 0 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, cucu curu!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, nicola karabatic!
The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Daniel Blasius and Paul Aken.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

curu shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
curu looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

curu is standing up out of mount! Strange tactic there - he must really want this one on the feet!

karabatic shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than karabatic was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!

karabatic is in full mount, looking to secure a guillotine but curu is surviving well by controlling karabatic's body position as best he can.
karabatic with good strikes from the mount here!
curu is in a horrible position here. karabatic smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
karabatic fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
karabatic trying to control but curu is having none of it.
karabatic scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish curu?

That's one minute gone in the round.
karabatic trying to control but he's not successful this time.
karabatic really doesn't want to stay on the ground with curu. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
karabatic is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
BOOM! karabatic connects with a massive shot to the dome!
karabatic tries to control but curu wriggling away.
karabatic unloading with bombs!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Poor strikes thrown by karabatic there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
karabatic throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for curu because karabatic loaded up on that one.
karabatic is looking to stand but karabatic has his arms wrapped tightly around him, looking to prevent the damage.
karabatic pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
karabatic unloads with some shots from mount but curu bucks and avoids them well.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
karabatic wants to control the pace but curu is squirming around nicely.
karabatic controlling the pace for now.
curu trying desperately to get to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
karabatic lands with some strikes.
karabatic breaks from curu's wrist control and lands an elbow.
karabatic connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
curu tries to hold on but karabatic postures up.
curu is desperately trying to improve his position but karabatic has a good base and remains in mount.
curu is working hard here to advance position.
A nice elbow there by karabatic.

karabatic working to secure an arm triangle but it's not happening for him just yet.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
karabatic controlling the pace for now.
curu is looking to improve his position but karabatic isn't that keen on the idea.
curu sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
curu tries to roll over but karabatic keeps him under control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

nicola karabatic 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.

curu doesn't manage to clinch there - karabatic circles away.

karabatic shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
karabatic lands a big shot there that rocks curu but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
karabatic trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The referee warns curu that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
curu tries to reverse the position but karabatic maintains control.
karabatic lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
karabatic can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as curu is looking to escape.
karabatic landing strikes from the mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
karabatic controlling from mount.
curu really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
karabatic working the ground and pound effectively.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
karabatic scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish curu?

karabatic jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but curu manages to avoid the submission attempt.
curu is trying to control karabatic's posture but karabatic avoids it.
karabatic controlling the position.
karabatic fails to land a wild elbow strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
curu sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
curu slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
curu looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

curu has butterfly guard. He's looking to stand up here. He pushes karabatic off him and springs to his feet nicely. The crowd applauds.
cucu curu is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
karabatic circles away from the clinch attempt.
karabatic shoots and misses
and curu counters with a nice body kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

curu closes the distance and pushes karabatic back into the cage.

curu escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
karabatic tries to clinch but curu moves away

and curu counters with a single leg into guard. karabatic didn't expect that.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells curu's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
karabatic keeping moving, preventing curu from controlling successfully.
karabatic is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
curu is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
curu controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
curu trying to control but karabatic is working from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

cucu curu dominated that second round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. This is the final round!

karabatic wants to clinch but curu slips to the side

and curu counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
curu trying to control but karabatic is working from the bottom.
karabatic will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
karabatic looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
karabatic will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
karabatic not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
karabatic wants to sweep but no luck.
curu trying to control but karabatic is working from the bottom.
nicola karabatic has got the better of the ground game so far.

curu drops back for a leg! It's a sloppy attempt though and curu jumps back into guard quickly, to retain the dominant position.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.

curu closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. karabatic did well to prevent curu getting side control.
curu controlling the action here.
karabatic tries to regain full guard. Instead though, curu has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
curu in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
curu content just to control the position here.
karabatic tries to hold on but curu postures up.
karabatic tries to get back to half guard but can't.
curu avoids the attempt from karabatic to control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
curu landing strikes from the mount.
curu takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
curu is in the full mount, landing strikes.
curu controlling the pace for now.
curu landing punches.
karabatic looking to escape from mount but he's given up his back!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.

curu has the rear naked choke here! This is very bad for karabatic! Can he survive? No! He's out! curu gets to his feet and celebrates with his cornermen. He looks absolutely delighted. In the post fight interviews he takes time to thank his parents and everyone who has believed in him from the start. How sweet.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:25 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). cucu curu!