PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joaquin Fortunado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arek Rendziok (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fortunado comes to the cage accompanied by Stairway to Heaven. Rendziok comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Do góry łeb! kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Fortunado
vs
Rendziok

191 cm
21
220 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

200 cm
21
215 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Lethal high kicks
KO power

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Granite chin

Brute
Just Fight

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joaquin Fortunado!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Arek Rendziok!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, James Atkins and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Fortunado.
Fortunado takes a swing at Rendziok's ribcage but misses.

Rendziok decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.
Rendziok throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Rendziok passes the guard and advances to mount!
Rendziok tries to control but Fortunado wriggling away.
Rendziok scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Fortunado?
Fortunado is working to get back to half guard.
Rendziok throws some wild stikes that Fortunado manages to avoid easily.
The referee warns Fortunado that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rendziok scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Fortunado?
Rendziok pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Rendziok working Fortunado over with strikes here.
Rendziok working Fortunado over with strikes here.
Rendziok raining down hammerfists from mount.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Rendziok can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Fortunado is looking to escape.
Rendziok landing punches.
Poor strikes thrown by Rendziok there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Rendziok throws some wild stikes that Fortunado manages to avoid easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado working to try and regain half guard.
Rendziok throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
A nice elbow there by Rendziok.
Fortunado is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Rendziok landing strikes from the mount.
Fortunado is working to get back to half guard.
Rendziok working Fortunado over with strikes here.
Rendziok tries to control but Fortunado wriggling away.
Fortunado taking shots to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rendziok controlling the pace for now.
Fortunado is in all sorts of trouble here.
Rendziok connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Rendziok working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Rendziok lands with some strikes.
A big strike lands for Rendziok! That's really hurt Fortunado and he's turned his back - Rendziok keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Rendziok jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Arek Rendziok!
Arek Rendziok is the new light heavyweight champion!
A relieved looking Arek Rendziok thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.