PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Desean Waters (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Paulo Neruda (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Neruda is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: powermad - nice dreams . The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Waters
vs
Neruda

179 cm
23
212 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

200 cm
21
280 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Solid boxing
Very strong

Dangerous GnP
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Desean Waters!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Paulo Neruda!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Tiny Johnson and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Waters scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Neruda blocking the ground and pound attempt from Waters.
Waters seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Neruda does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Waters works his foot free and advances to mount.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Waters in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Waters working Neruda over with strikes here.
Neruda really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Waters. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Neruda takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Waters raining down shots from the mount!
Neruda looks gassed!
Neruda's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.

Waters swings around for an armbar and he's got it! Wow, that came out of nowhere! What a finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Desean Waters!