PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marlon Kooch (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sol Tavarez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kooch's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Rise Against - The strenght to go on. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Kooch
vs
Tavarez

189 cm
23
215 lbs
6 - 6 - 0

186 cm
23
204 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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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 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Marlon Kooch!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Sol Tavarez!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Chris Downing and Cecil Peabody.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kooch blocks the body kick.
Tavarez keeps the fight on the outside.
Tavarez misses with a wild body shot.
Tavarez takes a swing at Kooch's ribcage but misses.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Tavarez, right into the meat.

Tavarez gets a clinch.
A shot in the inside from Tavarez.
A hook to the body from Tavarez.
Nice body punch from Tavarez - that landed with a thud.
Tavarez misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Kooch.
Tavarez gets underhooks to prevent Kooch's takedown attempt.
A body shot lands from Tavarez.
Tavarez throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
A short uppercut from Tavarez.
Tavarez lands a left hand.
Tavarez's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Tavarez is working Kooch over against the cage.
Kooch is breathing heavily.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tavarez lands a shot to the body.
Kooch tries a knee to the head but Tavarez blocks it.
Tavarez landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Tavarez is leaning against Kooch and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.

Tavarez has clasped his hands together around Kooch's back... aaand, he's got a takedown into side control. Nicely done.
Tavarez advances to mount.
Tavarez landing shots from mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tavarez with good strikes from the mount here!
Tavarez has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Tavarez dominating with strikes here.
Tavarez lands a nice shot to the head.
Tavarez lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Tavarez controlling his opponent.
Tavarez postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Kooch looks a forlorn figure.
Tavarez controlling from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kooch is wriggling around trying to escape.
Tavarez landing strikes, looking to finish!
Kooch is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Tavarez unloading with bombs!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tavarez scoring with strikes but Kooch is staying in there.

Kooch is rocked!
Kooch taking shots to the head.
Oh Kooch is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Tavarez controlling from the full mount.
Tavarez postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Kooch in real trouble here! The ref calls for Kooch to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:02 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Sol Tavarez!