PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Damien Roads (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ze Minotauro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Minotauro comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Buckethead - jump man kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Roads
vs
Minotauro

193 cm
33
214 lbs
18 - 12 - 0

185 cm
42
253 lbs
33 - 22 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Powerful

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 18 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Damien Roads!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 33 - 22 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ze Minotauro!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Thiago Cunha and Seu Braga.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Minotauro throws a poor cross that misses
and Roads counters with a right hand to the body.
Roads cracks Minotauro with an open hand slap.
Roads connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Minotauro throws a push kick but Roads slaps the foot to one side.
We've been informed that Minotauro has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Roads lands with an overhand left.

It looks like Ze Minotauro has been cut.
No joy there for Minotauro, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Roads checks a leg kick.

Minotauro has closed the distance and engaged Roads in a clinch.

Minotauro manages to break the clinch.
Roads swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Minotauro.
Roads fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Jab, jab by Roads - just one landing.
Roads misses with a hook to the body
and Minotauro counters with a stiff right hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Roads feints and then winds up with a huge right hand that connects perfectly and sends Minotauro sprawling to the canvas! Minotauro rolls over backwards and springs off the cage and manages to regain his footing - how acrobatic! Oh, he's still wobbly - can Roads finish him?!

Minotauro is rocked!
Minotauro walks straight into a right hand from Roads - that's dropped him! Roads jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Minotauro from any more punishment! Minotauro complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:13 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Damien Roads!
After winning the bout, Damien Roads thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.