PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Naelson Nogueira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ras Li Judah (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Judah comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Here Comes Trouble kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Nogueira
vs
Li Judah

188 cm
25
205 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Naelson Nogueira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ras Li Judah!
The judges for this bout are Frank Dennis, Daniel Franklin and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Judah ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Nogueira moves away.
Judah throws a lazy right hand but Nogueira sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Judah scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Nogueira defending well as Judah loads up on a big left hand.
Nogueira lands a right hook to the body.
Judah throws a body punch but Nogueira moves out of range.
Judah keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Judah lands a nice hook to Nogueira's body. Nogueira takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Nogueira throws a jab when Judah was well out of range.
Judah dips to his left and cracks Nogueira with an uppercut!
Nogueira throws a jab when Judah was well out of range.
Nogueira blocks a jab.
Nogueira lands with a nice combination. Judah backs away looking to recover.

It looks like Ras Li Judah has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Judah lands with a nice combination. Nogueira backs away looking to recover.
Nogueira uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Judah.
Judah stuns Nogueira with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Judah throws a hook but Nogueira avoids it easily.
Judah ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Judah lands with a shot to the body.
Judah connects with a right hand. Nogueira shakes it off.
Nogueira tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Judah throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Judah takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Judah keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Nogueira.
Judah scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.

Judah moves into the clinch successfully.
Judah tries a body shot but Nogueira blocks it.
A head punch on the inside from Judah fails to land.
Judah lands a body shot in the clinch.
Judah softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Judah doesn't land with the attempted body shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Good body shot from Judah.
Judah swings wildly with an uppercut but Nogueira uses good head movement to avoid it.
Judah is working Nogueira over against the cage.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Judah tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Nogueira jumps guard but Judah turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Judah lands with a short head shot on the inside.
A short right from Judah on the inside.
Nogueira blocks a body shot from Judah.
Judah works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Judah tries to throw a body punch but Nogueira avoids it by throwing Judah back against the cage.
Nogueira has been working on his balance at , so perhaps that has help him stuff some of the takedown attempts by Judah.
Judah scores with an uppercut up the middle.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Judah doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Come on Judah - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Nogueira blocks an uppercut.
Nogueira blocking some punches.
Nogueira being controlled against the cage.
Judah tries to throw a body punch but Nogueira avoids it by throwing Judah back against the cage.
Nogueira blocking some punches.
Judah goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Judah misses with a hook from the clinch.
Judah misses with some punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Judah creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Judah lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Judah lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Judah swings wildly with an uppercut but Nogueira uses good head movement to avoid it.
Judah lands a body shot.
A short right from Judah.
A right hand to the body from Judah.
Nogueira jumps guard but Judah turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Nogueira has a couple of punches blocked by Judah.
Judah misses with a hook from the clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Judah.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Judah lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Nogueira backwards.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ras Li Judah dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ras Li Judah's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Nogueira ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Judah moves away.
Nogueira throws a body shot but no joy.
Nogueira takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Judah cracks a nice hook into Nogueira's ribs.
Nogueira connects with a nice looking jab.
Judah misses with a hook.
Nogueira takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Nogueira misses with an uppercut. Judah saw that one coming.
Nogueira throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Judah swings for the body but Nogueira moves out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nogueira walks into a jab.

It looks like Naelson Nogueira has been cut.
Nogueira walks into a left hand.
Nogueira uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Judah.
Nogueira throws a predictable looking body shot
and Nogueira takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Donk. Judah catches Nogueira right on the button with a cross.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Judah sizes up Nogueira with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Nogueira moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
A jab from Judah does it's job there.

Nogueira is rocked!
Nogueira takes one to the chin there.
Oh Nogueira is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Nogueira walks straight into a right hand from Judah - that's dropped him! Judah jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Nogueira from any more punishment! Nogueira 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 1:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Ras Li Judah!
Our winner, Ras Li Judah, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.