PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Yourn Rotterdam (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rousimar Palhares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rotterdam comes to the cage accompanied by Avicii-Levels. Rousimar Palhares has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Yourn Rotterdam's chin.

Rotterdam
vs
Palhares

193 cm
32
204 lbs
20 - 16 - 0

173 cm
27
185 lbs
8 - 8 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Granite chin

Balco Boys - Hilo

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 16 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Yourn Rotterdam!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 8 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Rousimar Palhares!
The judges for this bout are Viktor Lagutenko, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Palhares doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Rotterdam connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Palhares shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Rotterdam cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Palhares with a poor takedown
and Rotterdam counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Yourn Rotterdam has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Rousimar Palhares.
Palhares tries for a takedown but Rotterdam circles away easily
and Rotterdam counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Both fighters circling a little - Rotterdam finishes the exchange with a kick to the body.

Rotterdam closes the distance and pushes Palhares back into the cage.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Rotterdam lands a damaging elbow.
Rotterdam makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Rotterdam gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Rotterdam lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A short uppercut from Rotterdam.
Nice elbow from Rotterdam.
Rotterdam lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A short right from Rotterdam on the inside.
Palhares takes a shot to the head.
Rotterdam pushes Palhares back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Palhares looks gassed!
A nice left hand lands by Rotterdam.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rotterdam stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Rotterdam prevents a takedown attempt there.
A short uppercut from Rotterdam.
Rotterdam lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Palhares or not.
Rotterdam connects with a knee to the head.
Rotterdam lands an elbow just above Palhares 's eye.
Rotterdam gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Rotterdam landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Rotterdam lands a damaging elbow.
Rotterdam creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Palhares's defenses.
Rotterdam scores with a knee to the head.

Palhares is rocked!
Rotterdam stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Palhares is still on wobbly legs! Can Rotterdam finish him?
Rotterdam scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Rotterdam.
Rotterdam lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Palhares to his knees! Rotterdam keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yourn Rotterdam!
During a confident post fight interview, Yourn Rotterdam thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.