PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bas Rutten (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Randy Natural (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Natural has chosen back in black - ACDC as his entrance music. Randy Natural is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Rutten
vs
Natural

186 cm
26
205 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

185 cm
31
210 lbs
16 - 5 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Very strong

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

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 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Bas Rutten!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 5 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Randy Natural!
The judges for this bout are , Timothy Bukovac and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rutten tries to keep at a distance but Natural has taken the fight into the clinch.
Natural content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Rutten fails to pull the fight into his guard.

Rutten is fighting off a takedown attempt but Natural is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Rutten to the mat. Rutten regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
Natural is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.

Rutten throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Natural sitting in guard here, content to control.
Rutten wants to control but Natural passes easily into half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rutten trying to control here.
Natural lands with a punch from half guard.
Natural passes the guard and advances to mount!
Natural landing punches.
Rutten takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Natural prevents Rutten from getting the reversal.
Rutten wants to hold on but Natural pushes him away.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Natural.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Natural working Rutten over with strikes here.
Natural has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Rutten's face.
Natural lands a big elbow.

It looks like Bas Rutten has been cut.
Natural breaks from Rutten's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Natural lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.

Rutten is rocked!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Rutten is breathing heavily.
Natural looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Rutten covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Randy Natural!