PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Sam Hitz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Eyehate Condoms (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Condoms has chosen call to prayer as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Hitz
vs
Condoms

182 cm
26
190 lbs
16 - 12 - 0

188 cm
24
194 lbs
12 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Lightning Fight Gear-Cage Wars version
Lightning Fight Gear-Cage Wars version

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Sam Hitz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Eyehate Condoms!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Daniel Cesar and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Condoms looks to score with a jab to the body but Hitz is just out of range.
Hitz takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Condoms takes a swing at Hitz's ribcage but misses.
Condoms pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Condoms changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Some wild striking there from Hitz.
Condoms lands with a cross.
Condoms throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Hitz.
Condoms takes a swing at Hitz's ribcage but misses.
Condoms just misses with a punch to the body.
Condoms looks to score with a jab to the body but Hitz is just out of range.
Hitz takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Hitz slips under a jab from Condoms.
Hitz wants to clinch.
Hitz gets cracked there but stands up to it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Condoms misses with a wild combination.
Condoms throws a leg kick but Hitz sees it coming and moves out of range.
Condoms misses with the combination.
Condoms uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Hitz.
Nice body kick from Condoms.
A looping hook to the body misses from Condoms. Hitz does a little dance to reset his feet.
Hitz checks a leg kick.
Condoms has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Hitz.
Condoms misses with a head kick.
Condoms misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Hitz.
Hitz swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Condoms scoring well with a low kick there.
Condoms looks to throw the jab but Hitz is out of range.
Condoms swats away the attempt to clinch by Hitz.
Condoms misses with an uppercut.
Condoms scores with a decent looking hook.
Hitz has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Condoms finds it's way round the side to connect with Hitz's head.
Condoms misses with a hook.
A decent looking cross lands there for Condoms.
Hitz throws a hook to the side of Condoms's head but Condoms sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Condoms throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Condoms ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Hitz dodges the punch combination from Condoms.
Condoms lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hitz tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Hitz ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Eyehate Condoms is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Condoms connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Hitz's hands.
Eyehate Condoms seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Condoms thuds his shin into the meat of Hitz's side.
Condoms throws a shot to the body.
Hitz fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Condoms manages to avoid it.
Condoms scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Hitz's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Condoms connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Hitz scrambles back to his feet.
A telegraphed right hand from Condoms misses the target.

Hitz moves into the clinch successfully.
Condoms on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Hitz just misses with a elbow thrown towards Condoms's brow.
Condoms blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Hitz landing some nice looking knees to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hitz using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Condoms looks gassed!
Hitz looking for a takedown.
Hitz scores a nice knee to the body.
Hitz misses with a knee to the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Hitz throws an elbow but misses.
Hitz throws an elbow but it misses.
Condoms swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hitz lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

It looks like Eyehate Condoms has been cut.
Hitz drops down looking for an ankle pick but Condoms pulls his leg out and moves away.
Condoms misses with a hook to the body

and Hitz counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
Hitz with a nice head shot there.
Hitz missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Condoms avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Hitz scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Eyehate Condoms will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Eyehate Condoms's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Condoms falls off balance throwing a combination

and Hitz counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
Hitz 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.
Condoms keeping moving, preventing Hitz from controlling successfully.
Hitz loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Hitz slows down the pace of the fight, as he sits in guard.
Hitz throwing strikes but missing.
Hitz postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hitz in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hitz throwing strikes from guard but Condoms blocks nicely.
Condoms utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Condoms preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Hitz loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Condoms is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Hitz is controlling him.
Hitz throws a strike but Condoms rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
Hitz is striking from the bottom but Condoms uses the opportunity to pass into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hitz throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Hitz throws a strike from the bottom that misses.

Hitz is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Condoms pulls his head out easily.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
It looks like Condoms is going to stand back up.
Hitz tries to get to full guard but Condoms has control of the leg.
Hitz is working hard here to advance position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Eyehate Condoms was stalling too much, according to the referee.
Hitz moves away from the strike by Condoms.
Condoms swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Condoms thows a leg kick but Hitz checks it
and Hitz counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Condoms swings away with a body shot that misses
and Hitz counters with a three punch combo that has Condoms backing up. Condoms nods at Hitz to acknowledge the strikes.
Hitz moves out of range as Condoms strikes.
Condoms avoids the head kick by Hitz.
Condoms throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Condoms throws a push kick but Hitz slaps the foot to one side.
Condoms listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
A jab from Condoms misses.
Hitz takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Jab from Condoms.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sam Hitz dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Eyehate Condoms's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!

Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Condoms.
Hitz loads up on a big right hand but Condoms slips the punch.
Condoms misses with a straight right.
Condoms throws a jab but it's blocked by Hitz.
Condoms scores with a nice right hand.
Hitz throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Condoms misses with a right hand
and Hitz counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Nice uppercut lands for Hitz. That snapped Condoms's head back.
Condoms wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Hitz avoids the body shot from Condoms.
Hitz takes one on the button.
Hitz fails to land with a series of punches.
Condoms connects with a crisp jab.
Jab from Hitz.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Condoms stuns Hitz with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Condoms misses with a low kick.
Condoms scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Hitz doesn't seem bothered though.
Condoms looks to land a right hand but Hitz moved out of range.
Condoms ducks under a wild hook from Hitz.
Condoms throws out a loose jab but Hitz uses good head movement to avoid it.
A nice combination there by Condoms.
A telegraphed right hand from Condoms misses the target.
Condoms ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Hitz moves away.
Hitz tries to move into range but Condoms moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Condoms throws out a powerful jab.
Condoms throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Condoms throws a sloppy head kick and Hitz moves out of range easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hitz throws the left hand but Condoms avoids the punch easily.
Condoms scores with a jab. Hitz acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Hitz moves out of range of the body kick from Condoms.
Hitz throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hitz checks a leg kick.
A cross from Condoms lands.
Hitz looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
Condoms throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Some bone on bone action there as Hitz checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Hitz on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Hitz misses with a double jab.
Condoms lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Condoms feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Hitzs jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Hitz scores to the head and body with a nice combination!

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Hitz shoots in and gets a takedown into Condoms's guard.
Hitz working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Hitz prevents Condoms from getting back to his feet.
Hitz loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Hitz throws and elbow that misses. Condoms uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Hitz's guard. Nice move by Condoms!
Condoms stopping the sweep attempt from Hitz.

Hitz is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hitz working a defensive guard but Condoms manages to pass into side control anyway.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Hitz tries to improve position but can't.

And that's the end of the fight!
Eyehate Condoms comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Condoms has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Matheus Silva scores the fight 28:29
Judge Daniel Cesar scores the fight 28:29
Judge Mauricio Rocha scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Eyehate Condoms!