PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Matheus Malinowski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Troby Meida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Malinowski comes to the cage accompanied by The Offspring-Pretty Fly (For a White Guy). Meida has chosen CB Sangue bom as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Malinowski
vs
Meida

186 cm
18
170 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

179 cm
19
176 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Good knees
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Matheus Malinowski!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Troby Meida!
The judges for this bout are Mauricio Rocha, Edson Gomes and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Meida looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Malinowski!
Malinowski looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Meida working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Meida pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Meida has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Meida tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Meida lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Malinowski hang on?
Meida controlling his opponent.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Let's hope that Meida has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Meida pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Malinowski swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Malinowski is just holding on here. Meida manages to take his back.

Meida has managed to slip his arm under Malinowski's chin. This could be all over... yep, Malinowski is tapping out! Submission win for Meida.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Troby Meida!
Our winner, Troby Meida, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.