PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cheetoh Ortiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sol Tavarez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ortiz kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is The Cheese Song. Cheetoh Ortiz could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Sol Tavarez's chin.

Ortiz
vs
Tavarez

179 cm
27
217 lbs
12 - 12 - 0

186 cm
25
204 lbs
6 - 4 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
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 12 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Cheetoh Ortiz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Sol Tavarez!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Tiny Johnson and Robert Twigg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ortiz misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Ortiz avoids the head kick by Tavarez.
Ortiz throws a body kick despite being completely out of range

and Tavarez holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Tavarez avoiding damage as Ortiz throws knees to the body.
Tavarez lands a damaging elbow.
Ortiz misses with a hook to the ribs.
Tavarez unloads a knee to the mid-section. Ortiz lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
With the fighters up against the cage, Ortiz throws an elbow but misses.

Tavarez breaks the clinch.
Tavarez listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Ortiz pulls out of a head kick attempt.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Tavarez fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
A combination from Ortiz does no damage.
Ortiz throws the kick towards the body but Tavarez avoids it.

Tavarez gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Tavarez lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Ortiz tries to land knees in the clinch but Tavarez avoids the damage to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ortiz tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Tavarez avoids it.
Tavarez throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Ortiz blocks it with crossed arms.
Tavarez using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Ortiz is breathing heavily.
Good body shot from Tavarez.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Tavarez creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Tavarez lands an elbow just above Ortiz 's eye.
Good body shot from Tavarez.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Knees to the body from Tavarez.
Tavarez will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Ortiz up against the cage.
Tavarez lands a right hand.
Tavarez lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Tavarez digs a right hand into Ortiz's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Ortiz's gas tank.
Tavarez lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Ortiz backwards.
A shot in the inside from Tavarez.
Tavarez scores with a nice hook to the head.
Tavarez stalling against the cage.
Ortiz has a couple of punches blocked by Tavarez.
A right handed body shot lands from Tavarez.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A right hook to the body lands for Tavarez.
Tavarez stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Tavarez gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
A shot in the inside from Tavarez.

Tavarez pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Ortiz fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Tavarez lands a nice leg kick that just misses Ortiz's sensitive parts.
Tavarez dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Ortiz. That did some damage!
Ortiz takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Tavarez.
A decent looking body kick lands there for Tavarez.

Tavarez drops his shoulder and cracks Ortiz with a huge uppercut! Ortiz goes down! Can Tavarez finish him?

Ortiz is rocked!
Tavarez passes Ortiz's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Oh Ortiz is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Tavarez keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
Tavarez lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Ortiz quite badly. Ortiz pulls Tavarez in close trying to recover. Tavarez postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Ortiz on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Ortiz doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

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