PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Dude Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Adam Tetahiti (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Love comes to the cage accompanied by Dude Love . Dude Love has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Love
vs
Tetahiti

197 cm
27
194 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

177 cm
27
196 lbs
11 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Dude Love!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Adam Tetahiti!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Santiago Holmes and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tetahiti looks to land a left hand but Love moved out of range nicely.
Love seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Love scores with a push kick.
Tetahiti moves out of range of the strikes.
Love jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Tetahiti's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Tetahiti duly obliges.
Tetahiti wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Tetahiti throws a body punch but Love moves out of range.
Tetahiti staying out of range there.
A jab from Tetahiti misses.
Dude Love seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tetahiti's corner calls for a 1-2. Tetahiti obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Love has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Tetahiti finds it's way round the side to connect with Love's head.
Tetahiti works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Tetahiti slips under a jab.
Love rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Tetahiti counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Love uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Tetahiti.
Tetahiti is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Love moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
A big right from Love misses.
Love misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Love staying out of range there.
Love misses the jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tetahiti fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Love looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Tetahiti tries to close the distance and clinch but Love swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Tetahiti blocks a jab.
Tetahiti fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Love on the side of the head.
Love throws a hook but Tetahiti avoids it easily.
Love misses with a lunging right hand
and Tetahiti counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Love misses the jab.
Tetahiti lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Love misses the jab.
Love misses with a right hand
and Tetahiti cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

Love is rocked!
A head kick misses from Love.
Tetahiti lands with a straight right. Love didn't see that one coming.
Oh Love is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Tetahiti lands with a jab that stuns his opponent. Love is looking to close the distance but Tetahiti sees it coming and throws a beautiful knee! Love crumbles to the mat and that's all she wrote! Let's hope Love is OK because that was naaaaaasty!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Knee). Adam Tetahiti!
After winning the bout, Adam Tetahiti thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.