PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Drestin Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tora Ropez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ropez has chosen Ambrosia as his entrance music. Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Black
vs
Ropez

180 cm
18
175 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

190 cm
22
170 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Drestin Black!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Tora Ropez!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, George Francis and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A shot to de liver by Black. Beautiful body shot.
Ropez tries to clinch but Black is having none of it.
Ropez blocks a head kick by Black.
Ropez tries to clinch but Black is having none of it.
Black shoots in looking for a takedown. Ropez tries to sprawl out of it but Black keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Ropez manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Ropez is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
No joy there for Ropez, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Ropez lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Ropez moves out of range of the leg kick from Black.
Ropez wants to clinch.
Ropez swinging wilding here.
Black ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Ropez moves away.
The fight stays on the outside here - Ropez looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Ropez throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Ropez works over Black's head and body with a nice combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ropez misses with a wild combination.
Black misses with a body shot.
Black fails with the takedown.
A left and a right from Ropez both land. Nice combination.
A punch combination from Ropez misses.
Ropez jabs Black right on the nose. Black blinks but takes it well.

Black is rocked!
A nice combination there by Ropez.
Oh Black is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Ropez throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Black.
Ropez stuffs the takedown attempt from Black. Black gets slowly back to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Drestin Black. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Horrible takedown by Black or perhaps it was just good defense by Ropez which made him look bad.
Ropez moves in looking to clinch but Black pushes him off.
Black seems to have got his legs back now.
Black shoots in for a takedown but Ropez shows good takedown defense.
Black throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Black shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Black is breathing heavily.
Black throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Ropez rushes Black and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Black wants to get back to striking at distance but Ropez won't allow it.
Ropez looking for a takedown.
Ropez tries to break the clinch but Black is controlling the position.
Ropez is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Black gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Ropez is trying to break the clinch but Black has him pressed against the cage.
Black tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Ropez smiles and moves away.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Black.
Black misses with a double jab
and Ropez counters with a straight right hand.
Ropez throws a right and a left that both miss.
Black misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Black swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ropez is looking to clinch.
Ropez will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Jab, cross, leg kick. Nice combination by Ropez!
Ropez goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Black scores with a push kick.
Ropez lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Black throws a body kick that misses.
Ropez is working the combinations to good effect here.
Ropez wants to clinch.
Black connects with a body shot.
Tora Ropez is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Black looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.

Ropez clinches with his opponent.
Ropez tries to break the clinch but Black is controlling the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Ropez is trying to break the clinch but Black has him pressed against the cage.

Black drags the fight down to the ground.

Black looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Black tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Ropez must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Black manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!

Black swings around for an armbar but it's a sloppy attempt and Ropez is now in Black's guard. A big mistake from Black there, giving up the dominant position!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tora Ropez dominated that round.
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.

Black throws a left and a right that both miss
and Ropez counters with a right hand to the body.
Ropez looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Black keeps the fight on the outside.
No joy there for Ropez, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
A nice combination there by Ropez.
Ropez avoids a punch combination nicely.
Ropez dodges the punch combination from Black.
A slapping leg kick lands for Black.
Black chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Ropez tries to clinch there but Black circles away.
Black looks to land a right hand but Ropez moved out of range.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Black showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ropez.
Ropez misses with a wild combination.
Drestin Black is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Black misses with a combination
and Ropez counters with a nice uppercut.
Black swats away the attempt to clinch by Ropez.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Ropez stalks Black and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Black's face. Black staggers backwards, shaken.
Black misses with a body kick.
Black lands with a thumping leg kick.
Ropez takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Black throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Ropez lands the left hand.
Black is looking to wear down Ropez with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Black slips a jab and a cross from Ropez.

Ropez has managed to clinch.
Ropez tries to break the clinch but Black is controlling the position.
Ropez is looking to break free of the clinch but Black has double underhooks.
Ropez drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Black gets the underhooks and prevents it.

Black jumps into guard, dragging Ropez to the mat.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Black controls Ropez momentarily but Ropez frees himself.
Ropez preventing the sweep.

Ropez avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Ropez would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Black wants to sweep here but Ropez controlling him for the moment.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fight is doing enough on the ground.
Black throws a left and a right that both miss
and Ropez counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Black fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Black slow jab from Ropez misses its intended target.
Ropez fails with an attempt to clinch.
Black misses with a combination
and Black takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fight stays on the outside here - Ropez looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Black waving his hands out infront of him, looking to distract Ropez.

Ropez clinches up with Black and pushes him back against the cage.

Black breaks the clinch.
Black has a takedown stuffed.
Ropez tries to clinch up.
Danga de danga de dang - Ropez scores with a four punch combination!
Black has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Ropez finds it's way round the side to connect with Black's head.
Ropez with a hook.

Ropez fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Black, pushing him back against the cage.
Ropez wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Ropez tries to break the clinch but Black is controlling the position.
Ropez is looking to break free of the clinch but Black has double underhooks.

Ropez breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Black looks to land a body kick but Ropez moved away.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tora Ropez showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! Let's hear some noise people - this is the final round!

Black falls off balance throwing a combination
and Ropez counters with a left and a right that stings Black.
The fight stays on the outside here - Ropez looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
A big right from Black misses.
Ropez goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

Ropez clinches up with Black and pushes him back against the cage.
Ropez is trying to break free.
Black is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Ropez pulls him back up using the underhooks.
Black fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Ropez wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Black looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.

Black breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Ropez blocks a jab.
Ropez scores with a nice strike.
Black is really struggling to find his range with his punches. Black's reach advantage is clearly causing him problems.

Black drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Black prevents Ropez from getting back to his feet.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Black trying to control the position from guard on top but Ropez is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Black is really struggling to control Ropez but he's trying to hold on to the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Ropez utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Black will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Drestin Black. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Ropez lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Black fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Black looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Ropez is fending him off so far but Black persists. Nope, Ropez circles away and we're back to standing.
Ropez throws a series of punches but Black avoids them all with ease.
Black throws a left and a right that both miss
and Ropez counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Black throws a head kick but Ropez moves out of range.
Black throws a leg kick which misses Ropez's front leg but catches the back leg as Ropez tries to avoid it.
Ropez ducks right into an uppercut from Black.

Ropez is rocked!
Black fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Ropez lands a big right hand and follows it up with an uppercut. Oh and another big punch and a knee - Black can't take much more of this! Another big shot to the jaw from Ropez and Black drops to the floor. Beaten and bloodied - he had enough there. A vicious beatdown by Ropez.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:38 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tora Ropez!