PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bo Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ivan Muchacho (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ivan Muchacho will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Alves
vs
Muchacho

193 cm
24
220 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

212 cm
25
219 lbs
15 - 9 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

5th Round

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Bo Alves!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 9 - 0, fighting out of London, Ivan Muchacho!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alves swings for the body but Muchacho moves out of range.
Alves looks to land a right hand but Muchacho moved out of range.
Alves lands with a cross.
Muchacho closes this distance looking for a takedown but Alves circles away.
Muchacho fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.

Muchacho feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Muchacho throwing strikes but missing.
Alves looking to hit a scissor sweep but Muchacho is one step ahead there.
Alves looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Muchacho puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Alves is looking to control Muchacho's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Alves avoid being mounted?
Muchacho is trying to get back to his feet now but his leg is trapped.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Muchacho frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Alves working to try and regain half guard.
Alves on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Alves tries to get out of the position.
Muchacho lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Alves hang on?
Muchacho throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.

Muchacho with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Muchacho fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Muchacho wants to control the pace but Alves is squirming around nicely.
Muchacho lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Muchacho in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Alves is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Muchacho fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Muchacho controlling the position easily from mount.
Alves avoids a series of strikes thrown by Muchacho.
Muchacho lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Muchacho has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Alves can't escape the position.
Muchacho is in the full mount, landing strikes.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Muchacho wants to control the pace but Alves is squirming around nicely.
Alves knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Muchacho on the ground.
Muchacho scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Alves is breathing heavily.
Muchacho wants to control the pace but Alves is squirming around nicely.
Muchacho cracks Alves with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

It looks like Bo Alves has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Muchacho working the ground and pound effectively.

Bo Alves's cut is getting worse.
Alves is squirming around, avoiding Muchacho's attempts to control the action.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Muchacho lands a heavy elbow.

Bo Alves's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Bo Alves's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Ivan Muchacho!