PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Xerxes Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Emperador Grandy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Alves
vs
Grandy

193 cm
25
289 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

188 cm
25
283 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Big right hand

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Xerxes Alves!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Emperador Grandy!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Grandy lands a nice looking body kick.
Alves moves in looking to clinch but Grandy pushes him off.
Grandy connects with a solid leg kick.
Grandy keeps the fight on the outside.
Alves swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Alves avoids the head kick by Grandy.
Grandy blocks a jab.
Grandy misses with a head kick.
Alves checks a low kick from Grandy.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Alves crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Grandy - the referee stops the clock and Alves gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Grandy. Alves manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Grandy thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Alves if he has to take too many more of those.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Grandy lands with a kick to the ribs.
Alves is breathing heavily.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Alves crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Grandy - the referee stops the clock and Alves gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Grandy. Alves manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Grandy throws a half hearted mid kick.
Grandy misses with a head kick.
Grandy lands a nice looking kick to the body. Alves takes a step back to recover.
Grandy lands a high kick!
That kick from Grandy tenderised Alves's leg. Alves is trying to keep his angry face on.

Grandy has managed to clinch.
Grandy lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Grandy throws a head punch that misses.
Grandy throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Alvess head.
Grandy lands a hook to the side of the head.
Grandy tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Grandy tries to break free but Alves pushes him back against the cage.
Alves tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Alves tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Grandy's elbow.

Grandy breaks from the clinch.
Alves takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Grandy misses with a low kick.
Grandy looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Grandy bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Alves's head.
Alves throws out a token jab with nothing on it.

Grandy moves into the clinch.
Alves blocks an uppercut.
Alves with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Grandy swings away with an uppercut that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Grandy throws a head punch that misses.
Alves pushes Grandy back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Grandy lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Grandy can't find room to land a body shot as Alves controls the action.
A short right from Alves.
Grandy is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Alves is keeping busy.
Alves missing with knees to the body.
Alves using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Grandy has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Grandy lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Alves backwards.
Alves blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Grandy misses with the head strike.
Alves lands a good knee to the midsection. Grandy won't want to take too many of those.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Alves prevents a body shot from Grandy.
Grandy misses with a hook from the clinch.
A knee to the head by Alves.
Grandy swings wildly with an uppercut but Alves uses good head movement to avoid it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Emperador Grandy dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.

Grandy throws a nice outside leg kick.
A cross from Grandy lands.
Grandy throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Grandy misses with a head kick.
Alves wants to clinch up but Grandy keeps it at a distance.
Grandy keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Alves misses with a hook. Grandy ducked under it nicely.
Alves throws a hook but Grandy blocks it.
Grandy gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Alves wants to clinch but Grandy slips to the side
and Grandy counters with a nice low kick that buckles Alves's knee momentarily.
Alves just misses with a punch to the body.
Alves connects with a single shot there.
Alves tries to close the distance and clinch up but Grandy swats him away and circles back towards the center.

Grandy rushes Alves and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Grandy lands a right hand.
Grandy managing to block the knees to the body from Alves.
Grandy trying to control the position but instead, Alves has worked for underhooks and has pushed Grandy into the cage.
Grandy lands a nice uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Grandy breaks from the clinch.
Grandy tries to work over Alves's front leg with a kick but Alves checks it.
Grandy looking to land some kicks to the body here.
A head kick misses from Grandy.
Grandy misses with a body kick.
Alves scores with a body shot.
Grandy lands a slapping body shot.
Grandy misses with a low kick.
Alves will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.
Grandy throws the kick towards the body but Alves avoids it.
Grandy throws a low kick but Alves avoids it.
Alves scores with a decent looking hook.
Alves tries to clinch up.
A swing and a miss from Alves.
Alves connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Alves lands with a nice body punch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Grandy swats away the attempt to clinch by Alves.
Alves is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Grandy throws a push kick but Alves slaps the foot to one side.
Grandy misses with a body kick.
Alves checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Grandy throws the kick towards the body but Alves avoids it.

Alves instigates a clinch.
Alves unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Grandy is breathing heavily.
Alves landing knees to the body.
Alves throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Grandys head.
Alves throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Grandy blocks it with crossed arms.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Alves trying to land knees to the body.
Alves lands a hook to the side of the head.
Alves lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Grandy misses with a hook from the clinch.

And that's the end of the fight!
Xerxes Alves showed his dominance in that final round.
I have no idea who won that fight. Let's wait and see whether the judges are as confused as me! Time for a split decision perhaps?!. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.

Judge Shigeki Sano scores the fight for Emperador Grandy!
Judge Kenichi Hosakawa scores the fight for Emperador Grandy!
Judge Ren Mimura scores the fight for Emperador Grandy!

Emperador Grandy wins by unanimous decision!
Emperador Grandy thanked the fans post fight for their support.