PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ray Longoria (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matt Ryan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Matt Ryan has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Longoria
vs
Ryan

175 cm
22
170 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

195 cm
25
167 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Experienced

Good takedowns
Counter striker
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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ray Longoria!
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, Matt Ryan!
The judges for this bout are Gwen Towbar, Daniel Franklin and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Longoria shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace.
Ryan manages to get to full guard.
Ryan is doing well to control the posture of his opponent and prevent any damage.
Longoria passes Ryan's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Longoria is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Ryan!
Longoria content just to control the position here.
Longoria tries to control but Ryan wriggling away.
Longoria controlling the position easily from mount.
Ryan tries to hold on but Longoria postures up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Longoria.
Longoria lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Longoria lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Ryan hang on?
Ryan wants to control but Longoria is having none of it.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Ryan working to try and regain half guard.
Ryan tries to hold on but Longoria postures up.
Longoria in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Ryan is bucking up trying to escape but Longoria cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

Ryan is rocked!
Ryan looks gassed!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Longoria fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Ryan is still in real trouble! Can Longoria finish him?
Longoria raining down shots from the mount!
A big strike lands for Longoria! That's really hurt Ryan and he's turned his back - Longoria keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Longoria jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ray Longoria!
Ray Longoria really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Malicious Intent Fight Gear logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.