PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Veli Schwarzeneg (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricardo Lombard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ricardo Lombard has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Schwarzeneg
vs
Lombard

175 cm
36
175 lbs
25 - 39 - 2

178 cm
27
180 lbs
12 - 7 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Experienced

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Powerful

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 25 - 39 - 2, fighting out of St Petersburg, Veli Schwarzeneg!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 7 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ricardo Lombard!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Aleksandr Martynov and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lombard keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Schwarzeneg closes the distance and clinches up with Lombard, looking for a takedown. Schwarzeneg pushes Lombard against the cage but Lombard circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.

Lombard closes the distance and pushes Schwarzeneg back into the cage.
Lombard prevents a takedown attempt there.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Veli Schwarzeneg. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Lombard misses with a short punch on the inside.
Lombard scores with a shot to the side of Schwarzeneg's head.

Schwarzeneg breaks from the clinch.

Schwarzeneg has taken the fight to the clinch.
Schwarzeneg tries to pull guard but Lombard won't allow it.
Lombard misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Lombard misses with the head strike.
Lombard softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Lombard misses with a knee strike.
Schwarzeneg tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Lombard just stands there and leans against the cage.
Lombard lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Lombard scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Lombard throws an elbow but it's blocked.

Schwarzeneg pulls Lombard into guard.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Lombard throws a big right hand that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Lombard accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Lombard with a nice head shot there.
Lombard has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Lombard makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Lombard postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

Schwarzeneg is rocked!
Lombard postures up from his opponent's guard, before exploding into some vicious ground and pound! Schwarzeneg covers up, he's hurt! Lombard keeps throwing the strikes, glancing at the referee... Will he stop it?? One more big shot from Lombard and the ref steps in to end the fight! Lombard can't hide his delight as he celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricardo Lombard!
Ricardo Lombard thanked the fans post fight for their support.