PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Buddy Stevens (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harold Sklu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sklu has chosen Lay Me Down as his entrance music. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Stevens
vs
Sklu

155 cm
18
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

165 cm
18
160 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Counter striker
Tends to cut

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Buddy Stevens!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Harold Sklu!
The judges for this bout are Chris Saunders, Ryoma Takatsuka and Micheangelo Fripello.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sklu throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Sklu looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Sklu avoids a kick to the body.

Stevens shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Stevens controlling his opponent.
Stevens lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Stevens lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Stevens controlling from the full mount.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Stevens cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sklu prevents Stevens from taking his back.
Stevens looking to control and managing it successfully.
Stevens punishing his opponent with strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Stevens looking to control and managing it successfully.
Stevens seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Sklu for as long as he can get away with.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Stevens cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Stevens controlling from mount.
Stevens forces the positional change into back control.
Sklu trying to control the position but Stevens manages to sink in the hooks.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Stevens is working for the choke. He's slipped one arm under the chin. Sklu has to defend the other arm for all he's worth... but Stevens has managed to get that arm free too and he's tightening the choke! Sklu taps out and looks absolutely disgusted with himself. Stevens doesn't care though - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Buddy Stevens!