PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Nero Cato (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brett Henderson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Cato might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Nero - Requiem. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Cato
vs
Henderson

180 cm
22
210 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

185 cm
18
210 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Very confident

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Nero Cato!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Brett Henderson!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Viktor Lagutenko and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Henderson listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Cato cracks Henderson with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Henderson will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Henderson tries to clinch up but Cato circles away and keeps his distance.
Cato misses with a body shot.
Cato throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Cato avoids the head kick by Henderson.
Henderson will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Henderson misses with a takedown attempt - Cato sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Nero Cato has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Brett Henderson.

Cato bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Cato working away.
Cato looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Henderson is avoiding damage well.
Cato throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Cato tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Henderson manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Cato has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Cato looking to control and managing it successfully.
Henderson really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Cato. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Cato.
Henderson tries to reverse the position but Cato maintains control.
Cato fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
A nice elbow there by Cato.
Cato unloading with bombs!
Henderson is in all sorts of trouble here.
BOOM! Cato connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Cato looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Cato lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Cato has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Henderson's face.
Henderson looks gassed!
Cato with good strikes from the mount here!

Henderson is rocked!
Cato looking to control and managing it successfully.
Cato landing strikes from the mount.
Henderson is still in real trouble! Can Cato finish him?

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Henderson is looking to get back to his feet - it's going to be hard from this position.
Cato looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Henderson tries to lock up and control but Cato gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
Cato lands a big shot there that rocks Henderson but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Cato landing shots from mount.
Cato postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Henderson in real trouble here! The ref calls for Henderson 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 2:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nero Cato!