PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Luciano de Oliveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fred Sanford (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

de Oliveira
vs
Sanford

201 cm
32
282 lbs
14 - 6 - 0

186 cm
33
240 lbs
17 - 14 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Very strong

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Cynical Truth (steel penn)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Luciano de Oliveira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Fred Sanford!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, George Francis and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sanford with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Sanford scores with a leg kick.
de Oliveira avoids the head kick by Sanford.
de Oliveira blocks the body kick.

Sanford takes the fight into the clinch.
de Oliveira misses with a knee strike.
Sanford blocks the elbow strike.
Sanford avoids a wild elbow strike from de Oliveira.
de Oliveira throws an elbow that misses.
Sanford with a knee to the head.

It looks like Luciano de Oliveira has been cut.

Sanford's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sanford throws a leg kick which misses de Oliveira's front leg but catches the back leg as de Oliveira tries to avoid it.
We've been told by de Oliveira's head coaches at Black Hand Vegas that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.

Sanford has de Oliveira up against the cage in a clinch.
de Oliveira with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sanford avoids the elbow strike from de Oliveira, against the cage.
Sanford utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
de Oliveira is breathing heavily.
de Oliveira misses with a knee to the head.
Sanford blocks an elbow strike.
Sanford will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning de Oliveira up against the cage.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from de Oliveira.
de Oliveira misses with an elbow strike.
Sanford on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
de Oliveira lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
de Oliveira tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

Sanford breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Sanford swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

de Oliveira gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Sanford landing knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Sanford manages to break the clinch.
de Oliveira walks forward, straight into a front kick from Sanford.

Sanford lands a big head kick that sends de Oliveira tumbling to the mat! Sanford takes a step backwards and waves de Oliveira back to his feet - he wants the finish!

de Oliveira is rocked!

Sanford closes the distance and clinches.
Oh de Oliveira is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
de Oliveira throws an elbow but it misses.
Sanford leaning against his opponent.
de Oliveira seems to have got his legs back now.
Sanford throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but de Oliveira blocks it with crossed arms.
Sanford landing knees to the body.
Sanford tries a knee to the head but de Oliveira blocks it.

Sanford drops de Oliveira with a big knee straight up the middle! de Oliveira is covering up against the cage but manages to escape and gets back to his feet!

Luciano de Oliveira's cut is getting worse.
Sanford fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt de Oliveira.
Sanford scores with a push kick.

The fight moves into the clinch position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sanford putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has de Oliveira in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Sanford lands an elbow that stopped de Oliveira in his tracks for a moment.
Sanford unloads a knee to the mid-section. de Oliveira lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Sanford jerks de Oliveira's head down, straight into the path of a devastating knee! de Oliveira drops to the floor in a crumpled heap! Sanford goes to throw a finishing haymaker but pulls out - good sportsmanship from Sanford because de Oliveira was completely out of it. That was a nice finish - just the right level of brutality to send everyone home happy.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knee). Fred Sanford!
During a confident post fight interview, Fred Sanford thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.