PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Batista de Guia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Assange (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). de Guia comes into the arena with "Quilombo" by Soulfly blaring out of the sound system. Assange has chosen Eddie Van Halen - Eruption as his entrance music. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

de Guia
vs
Assange

180 cm
26
150 lbs
10 - 7 - 1

176 cm
22
155 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 7 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Batista de Guia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, James Assange!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Seu Braga and Matheus Silva.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Assange throws a shot from downtown. de Guia moves away and avoids it.

Assange moves into the clinch successfully.
Still in the clinch, Assange scores with a nice short uppercut.
de Guia tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
de Guia unloads a knee to the mid-section. Assange lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Assange working some nice short punches in the clinch.
de Guia tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Assange avoids it.
Nice body punch from Assange - that landed with a thud.
de Guia is looking to control Assange's arms but Assange gets an underhook and turns him. Now de Guia has his back to the cage.
de Guia tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Assange lands a shoulder strike.
de Guia throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Assange blocks it with crossed arms.
Assange avoiding damage as de Guia throws knees to the body.
Assange misses with a shot to the kidneys.
de Guia tries to land knees in the clinch but Assange avoids the damage to the body.
de Guia throws a knee to the head but misses.
de Guia has a couple of punches blocked by Assange.
Assange working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Assange scores with a shot to the side of de Guia's head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
de Guia tries to land knees in the clinch but Assange avoids the damage to the body.
Assange lands a body shot.
Assange pushes de Guia back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

de Guia is rocked!
de Guia blocks an uppercut.
Oh de Guia is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

That's one minute gone in the round.
de Guia displaying some good clinch control by pressing Assange up against the cage.
Assange scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A head punch on the inside from Assange fails to land.
de Guia looking to throw knees to the head but Assange is blocking nicely.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Assange.
Assange swings away with an uppercut that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by de Guia.
Assange pushes de Guia back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
de Guia blocks an uppercut.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Assange fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Assange doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Assange throws a punch but it's blocked by de Guia.
Assange dips a shoulder and cracks de Guia with a mighty uppercut! de Guia falls back against the cage and Assange unloads with a barrage of strikes! de Guia is completely out with his eyes open, only supported by the cage! Save him ref! Eventually the ref decides to do his job and jumps in - Assange screams abuse at the incompetent official before going over to celebrate with his corner. Brutal stuff!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). James Assange!