PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jarred Mccormick (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mauricio Tavares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Jarred Mccormick has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Mccormick
vs
Tavares

194 cm
19
278 lbs
0 - 5 - 0

190 cm
25
230 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Determined

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 0 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jarred Mccormick!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Mauricio Tavares!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Konstantin Menshow and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Tavares moves into the clinch.
Tavares is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

Tavares has picked Mccormick up - he's going for a ride! Tavares dumps his opponent to the mat with a thud and settles into half guard.
Tavares thows a huge punch but Mccormick dodges it nicely.
Tavares seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Tavares trying to control the pace.
Tavares sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Mccormick defending well though.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Tavares in particular looking to stall.
Tavares moves nicely into side control.
Tavares has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Tavares just content to control the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Check out the look on Tavares's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Tavares misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Tavares is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Mccormick will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Tavares scoring with punches and elbows.
An elbow from Tavares crashes against the mat.
Mccormick is trying to control Tavares's posture but Tavares avoids it.
Tavares in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.

It looks like Jarred Mccormick has been cut.
Tavares works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.

Jarred Mccormick's cut is getting worse.
Tavares in side control here. He's dropped a big elbow there and Mccormick looks hurt! Oh, he is hurt! Tavares turns on the heat and pounds him out for a TKO victory! Good killer instinct there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mauricio Tavares!