PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Zach Hardgrave (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricky Roma (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Roma has chosen Lil Wayne - Show Me My Opponent as his entrance music. Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Hardgrave
vs
Roma

186 cm
23
344 lbs
8 - 9 - 0

195 cm
25
290 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Zach Hardgrave!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Ricky Roma!
The judges for this bout are Damien Edna, Donatello Bradman and Hugh Johnson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Roma swings widly with a right hand
and Roma takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Hardgrave looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Roma looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Hardgrave!
Roma scoring with strikes but Hardgrave is staying in there.
Roma throws some wild stikes that Hardgrave manages to avoid easily.
Roma wants to control the pace but Hardgrave is squirming around nicely.
Roma scores with a couple of good head shots there.
BOOM! Roma connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Roma breaks from Hardgrave's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Roma with good strikes from the mount here!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roma tries to control but Hardgrave wriggling away.
Roma lands a nice shot to the head.
Roma working the ground and pound effectively.
Roma punching from mount but Hardgrave doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Hardgrave is bucking up trying to escape but Roma cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Roma throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Roma trying to control but Hardgrave is having none of it.
Roma raining down hammerfists from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Roma content just to control the position here.
Roma's corner are shouting for him to control the position and he seems happy to oblige.
Roma trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Roma fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Roma cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Roma scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Hardgrave?
Roma landing shots from mount.
Roma breaks from Hardgrave's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Roma landing shots from mount.
Roma controlling from mount.
Roma trying to control but Hardgrave is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Roma lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Hardgrave in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Roma trying to control but Hardgrave is having none of it.
Hardgrave is in a horrible position here. Roma smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ricky Roma dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Roma fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Hardgrave looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Roma throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Hardgrave slaps away a takedown attempt from Roma, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Nice body punch from Roma.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Roma scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Roma moves into full mount!
Roma sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roma unloading with bombs!
Roma has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Roma dominating with strikes here.
The step up in weight doesn't seem to be a problem for Roma. He's performing admirably here against the bigger man.
Roma postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Hardgrave looks a forlorn figure.
Roma lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Hardgrave hang on?
Roma lands a big elbow.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Roma has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Hardgrave's face.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Roma raining down shots from the mount!
Roma lands a big elbow - Hardgrave is in trouble! More strikes from the mount and Hardgrave is forced to tap out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:31 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Ricky Roma!