PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rashad Evans (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jesus Ramirez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ramirez has chosen Joyenergizer as his entrance music. Rashad Evans has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Evans
vs
Ramirez

183 cm
25
223 lbs
10 - 0 - 0

188 cm
21
215 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent elbows
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Rashad Evans!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jesus Ramirez!
The judges for this bout are Steve Smith, Alec Ball and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Horrible takedown by Evans or perhaps it was just good defense by Ramirez which made him look bad.
Evans shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Ramirez sprawls well. Ramirez wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Evans gets slowly back to his feet.
Ramirez with a hook.
Ramirez dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Evans throws a right and a left that both miss.
Evans takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Evans showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ramirez.
Evans shoots for a takedown but Ramirez saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Rashad Evans. That's going to take a lot out of him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ramirez connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Evans slips a jab from Ramirez.
Evans takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Ramirez misses with a few strikes there.
Ramirez slaps away a takedown attempt from Evans, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Ramirez looks to throw the jab but Evans is out of range.
Ramirez lands a jab and follows it up with a massive straight that knocks Evans out cold! Evans is crumpled in the corner, his head only propped up by the cage! That's one for the organiziational promos right there! Wow, what a finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Jesus Ramirez!
Jesus Ramirez was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.
Rashad Evans was interviewed post fight and said 'I want to say thank you to all my fans. Sorry I had let you all down, but I will come back. I promise. I'm going back to the gym and reanalyze what I need to do for next time.'.