PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricky Roma (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Zach Hardgrave (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Roma might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Lil Wayne - Show Me My Opponent . Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Roma
vs
Hardgrave

195 cm
26
290 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

186 cm
24
344 lbs
8 - 10 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very strong

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 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Ricky Roma!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Zach Hardgrave!
The judges for this bout are Hugh Johnson, Damien Edna and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hardgrave throws a hook but Roma avoids it easily.
Roma lands with a nice body punch.
Hardgrave looks gassed!

Roma shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Hardgrave's guard.
Roma advances position into side control!
Hardgrave trying to remain calm as Roma controls from the top position.
Roma working the body and head with strikes.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Hardgrave managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Roma.
Roma cracks Hardgrave with an elbow. That is naaassty.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roma works to advance to full mount. Hardgrave defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Roma looking to control but Hardgrave is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Hardgrave is in a horrible position here. Roma smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Roma trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Roma landing strikes from the mount.
Hardgrave in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
BOOM! Roma connects with a massive shot to the dome!

It looks like Zach Hardgrave has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Roma cracks Hardgrave with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Hardgrave is in a horrible position here. Roma smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Roma fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Roma raining down shots from the mount!
Roma in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Roma controlling the position easily from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Roma lands a big elbow.
Roma content just to control the position here.
Roma lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Roma landing strikes from the mount and Hardgrave is in trouble!
Hardgrave in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Roma postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Hardgrave looks a forlorn figure.
Roma controlling from mount.
Roma working the ground and pound effectively.
Hardgrave is in a horrible position here. Roma smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Roma landing punches.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ricky Roma dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Zach Hardgrave's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Today's fight clock is brought to you by... OOOH that's a huge shot by Roma! Hardgrave is in big trouble here - the ref steps in to save him and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricky Roma!