PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Nick Cage (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Otaku Senzuri (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Senzuri has chosen Tori Amos-Code Red as his entrance music. Otaku Senzuri struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.8lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Nick Cage has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Cage
vs
Senzuri

192 cm
23
197 lbs
9 - 1 - 1

185 cm
26
203 lbs
10 - 6 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Nick Cage!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Otaku Senzuri!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Taro Takaoka and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Senzuri throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Senzuri scores with a crisp jab that stopped Cage in his tracks.

Cage gets a takedown into half guard.
Cage throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Senzuri tries to get to full guard but Cage has control of the leg.
Senzuri is looking to escape.
Senzuri moves into full guard.
Cage with a flurry of punches that miss.

Senzuri has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Cage can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Cage loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Cage's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Cage works over Senzuri with some ground and pound from guard.
Cage postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Senzuri has his foot on Cage's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Cage works his way back into a safe position though.
Cage trying to control the position from guard on top but Senzuri is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Cage is really struggling to control Senzuri but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Cage in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Cage lands a couple of digs.
Cage has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Cage postures up and lands a big shot to Senzuri's brow.
Cage scoring with punches to the head and body.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Cage postures up and lands a big shot to Senzuri's brow.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Cage trying to control the position from guard on top but Senzuri is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Cage is in close to Senzuri's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Senzuri can't keep his opponent in guard - Cage advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Cage is looking to advance position but Senzuri won't allow it.
Cage lands with a punch from half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ground and pound from Cage.

Senzuri is rocked!
Cage lands a big elbow - Senzuri is out of it! He's waving his arms around but his eyes are closed and he's not intelligently defending himself - the ref has no choice but to jump in and stop the fight! This one is in the books! A TKO win for Cage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nick Cage!
Nick Cage retains his middleweight title!