PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lyoto Maia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tim Dean (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dean has a pretty significant injury - he really shouldn't be fighting right now but he's a warrior and he's here none the less! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Maia
vs
Dean

183 cm
27
200 lbs
11 - 11 - 0

200 cm
25
195 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Good knees
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

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 11 - 11 - 0, fighting out of London, Lyoto Maia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Tim Dean!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Chris Edwards and Andrew Berry.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Maia scores with a nice body kick.
Dean looks gassed!
Maia lands a jab to Dean's midsection.
A nice leg kick lands there from Maia.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Dean crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Maia - the referee stops the clock and Dean gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Maia. Dean manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Maia digs a good body shot into Dean's ribs.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Maia cracks the inside of Dean's front leg.

Dean gets caught flat footed, as Maia shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Maia chips away with some ground and pound.
Maia is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Dean has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but Maia has passed into side control.
Dean really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Maia. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Maia lands a few punches from side control.

Maia is in a dominant position here, looking for a kimura. Dean looks calm but he's in trouble here. Maia gets his leg over his opponent's head and yanks on the arm. Dean is tapping like a morse code operator on the titanic! SOS! SOS! Maia lets go of the hold and Dean can pop his arm back in it's socket.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Lyoto Maia!