PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Shaun Truck (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joe Heller (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Truck comes into the arena with Knockin Heads Off blaring out of the sound system. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Truck
vs
Heller

185 cm
20
185 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

180 cm
22
185 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid 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 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Shaun Truck !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Joe Heller!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Paulo Santos and Edson Gomes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Truck fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Truck looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Truck avoids a punch combination nicely.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Heller.
Heller with a nice cross.
Truck misses with a takedown
and Heller counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Shaun Truck . That's going to take a lot out of him.
Some bone on bone action there as Truck checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Truck doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Heller counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for Truck !
Heller working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Heller breaks from Truck 's wrist control and lands an elbow.

Truck is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Truck wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Heller.
Oh Truck is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Heller fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Heller unloading with bombs!
Heller punishing his opponent with strikes.
Truck is bucking up trying to escape but Heller cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Truck takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Heller unloading with bombs!
Heller pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Heller with shots to the head and body - Truck looks very uncomfortable down there.
Heller is landing with some decent strikes but Truck is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Heller controlling from the full mount.
Heller with a couple of short strikes.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Heller has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Truck 's face.

Heller is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Truck is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Truck flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Heller anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Truck and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Heller slips an arm under Truck chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Heller has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Heller is squeezing on Truck like an anaconda would it's prey. Truck fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Joe Heller!