PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jerome Lebanner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ronaldo Oliveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Lebanner
vs
Oliveira

185 cm
25
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

179 cm
20
184 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Solid chin

Mango Nutrition

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jerome Lebanner!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ronaldo Oliveira!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Daniel Cesar and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lebanner throws a sloppy head kick and Oliveira moves out of range easily.
Oliveira swats away the attempt to clinch by Lebanner.
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Oliveira is defended easily by Lebanner.

Lebanner clinches up against the cage.
Oliveira takes an elbow to the temple.

It looks like Ronaldo Oliveira has been cut.
Oliveira blocks an elbow strike.
Nice elbow from Lebanner.
Lebanner lands a damaging elbow.
Lebanner creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Oliveira's defenses.

That has opened up Ronaldo Oliveira's cut even more.
Oliveira is trying to drag Lebanner to the mat but Lebanner just about manages to keep his footing. He used the cage to his advantage there.
Oliveira stalling in the clinch but Lebanner improves position.
Lebanner lands a nice elbow.

Lebanner pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Oliveira blocks a head kick by Lebanner.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lebanner throws a sloppy head kick
and Oliveira counters with a leg kick.
Lebanner throws a head kick that misses
and Oliveira counters with an inside leg kick.
Lebanner lands a brutal head kick. Oliveira looks out on his feet and Lebanner throws more strikes until the ref is forced to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:16 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Kick and Punches). Jerome Lebanner!
Jerome Lebanner very nearly forgot to thank Mango Nutrition amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.