PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Hans Landa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and White Tiger Tao (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Landa
vs
Tiger Tao

174 cm
19
163 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

172 cm
24
157 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid Muay Thai
Cuts easily

Good takedowns
Excellent boxer
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Hans Landa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, White Tiger Tao!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Dmitry Maklakov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tao throws a right and a left that Landa avoids nicely.
Tao misses with an uppercut. Landa saw that one coming.
Tao throws out a powerful jab.

Landa drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Tao wants to stand up but Landa is controlling him.
Landa is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Landa is in close to Tao's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Tao wants to stand but Landa is controlling the position.
Landa postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Landa stops Tao from standing up.
Landa wants to control from the top but Tao keeps moving.
Landa with a nice head shot there.
Landa scoring with some ground and pound.
Landa trying to control the position from guard on top but Tao is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Tao wants to get back to his feet but he's too absorbed in his own little project and Landa manages to pass to side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tao wants to stand back up but Landa manages to pass into side control.
Tao wants to get back to his feet but Landa drags him back down.
Tao trying to remain calm as Landa controls from the top position.
Landa landing a few strikes.
Tao taking punishment in the form of punches.
Tao taking a bit of punishment here - Landa scoring with strikes.

Tao is rocked!
Tao really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Landa. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Landa lands a big left to the face of Tao, bouncing his head like a basketball. Another shot from Landa and another - Tao is out! Landa stands up and salutes his fans, who are going crazy in the stands.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Hans Landa!