PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Balrog Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Damien Roads (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Johnson comes into the arena with Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights blaring out of the sound system. On his way into the cage it seems that Balrog Johnson has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Balrog Johnson seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Johnson
vs
Roads

192 cm
43
216 lbs
31 - 14 - 0

193 cm
36
214 lbs
22 - 17 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Spartan Nutrition

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 31 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Balrog Johnson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Damien Roads!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Mauricio Rocha and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Roads moves out of range of the body kick from Johnson.
Johnson misses with a body kick.
Johnson with a nice cross.
Nice defenses there by Johnson.
Roads closes the distance and lands a one-two.

It looks like Balrog Johnson has been cut.
Johnson swings for the body but Roads moves out of range.
Roads let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
Roads misses with an uppercut.
Johnson lands a leg kick that knocks Roads off balance momentarily.
Nice body kick from Johnson.
Roads has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Johnson.
Roads misses the shot to the body.
Roads tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Johnson was well out of range. Poor timing from Roads.
Johnson connects with a solid leg kick.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Roads avoids the head kick by Johnson.
Johnson avoids a punch combination nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roads stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Johnson.
Johnson connects with a looping right hand.
A swing and a miss from Roads.
Roads slips under a jab from Johnson.
Roads moves out of range of the body kick.
Johnson doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Roads checks a low kick from Johnson.
Johnson defending well as Roads loads up on a big left hand.
Johnson connects with an inside leg kick.
A solid leg kick lands there for Johnson.
A thudding body kick lands there by Johnson!
Johnson has been working on his boxing with his coaches at The Warehouse in the buildup to the fight.
Roads drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Johnson fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Roads is out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johnson tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Roads throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Johnson.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Roads lands a nice looking body shot.
Johnson dodges the punch combination from Roads.
Johnson showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Roads.
Roads gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Johnson throws a body punch but Roads moves out of range.
Johnson lands a nice hook to Roads's body. Roads takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Roads has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Johnson finds it's way round the side to connect with Roads's head.
A telegraphed right hand from Johnson misses the target.
Roads now looks to counter with a shot at the body.
Johnson scores with a leg kick.
Roads ducks under a wild hook from Johnson.
Roads lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Balrog Johnson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Roads scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Good shot there by Roads.
A looping hook to the body misses from Roads. Johnson does a little dance to reset his feet.
Roads ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Johnson moves away.
Roads tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Johnson was well out of range. Poor timing from Roads.
Johnson cracks the inside of Roads's front leg.
Johnson buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Johnson throws a push kick but Roads slaps the foot to one side.
Roads staying out of range there.
Johnson misses with a body kick.
Johnson blocks a jab.
Johnson finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Roads sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Roads throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Roads lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Roads lands with an overhand left.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Johnson throws a wild body kick that Roads sees coming a mile off.
Johnson looks to throw the jab but Roads is out of range.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Roads checks a leg kick.
Roads on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Johnson lands with a kick to the ribs.
Roads throws a sloppy body shot
enabling Johnson to counter with a crisp jab.
Johnson scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Johnson takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Johnson pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Roads on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Roads throws a nice looking combination but Johnson bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Johnson thinks about countering with a body kick.
Roads tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Johnson was well out of range. Poor timing from Roads.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Balrog Johnson dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Balrog Johnson's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Johnson throws the left hand but Roads avoids the punch easily.
Johnson throws a head kick but Roads moves out of range.
Johnson fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Roads keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Roads scores with a decent looking hook.
Roads is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Johnson rather than just go for the knockout.
Johnson tries a low kick but Roads avoids it.
Roads fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Johnson looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Roads's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Johnson scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Roads misses with a looping left.
As Roads backs away, Johnson returns fire with a leg kick that just misses.
Roads looks to land a right hand but Johnson moved out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Johnson swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Roads.
Roads connects with a right hand. Johnson shakes it off.
Johnson lands a nice looking kick to the body. Roads takes a step back to recover.
The crowd cheers as Roads lands an impressive looking overhand right. Johnson doesn't seem phased though.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roads swats away the attempt to clinch by Johnson.
Roads misses with an uppercut.
Good leg kick by Johnson there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Balrog Johnson is winning the standup battle so far.
A head kick from Johnson lands but Roads takes it in his stride.
Johnson throws a leg kick but Roads moved away.
Johnson scores with a jab to the head.
Roads on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Johnson. Johnson obviously looking to wear him down.
Roads throws a body shot but no joy.
Roads misses with a few strikes there.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Roads might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Johnson has got the better of the exchanges.
Johnson pushes Roads away with a front kick.
Johnson throws a chopping leg kick but Roads manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
Johnson loads up on a big right hand but Roads slips the punch.
Johnson moves into range and lands a nice body kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Roads blocks a head kick by Johnson.
Roads takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Roads loads up on a big right hand but Johnson slips the punch.
Johnson moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Johnson looks to throw a body kick
and Roads counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Johnson jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Johnson on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Roads throws a right hand that Johnson ducks under and follows up with a left that Johnson also avoids with ease.
Sloppy strikes from Roads. Those never looked like landing.
Roads ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Johnson ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Johnson missing with a left hand there. Roads was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Roads is looking for the big counter here.
Roads will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson misses with a straight right.
Johnson has not gone for a single takedown so far in this fight, which seems like a very strange tactic when you consider that he has the superior wrestling and BJJ.
A solid leg kick lands there for Johnson.
Roads takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Roads bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Johnson's head backwards.
Roads throws a hook to the side of Johnson's head but Johnson sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Johnson tries to clinch up but Roads circles away and keeps his distance.
Johnson punishes Roads's body with a nice straight punch.
Roads takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Johnson connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Johnson lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Roads has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Roads and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Roads swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Johnson tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Roads is able to avoid easily.
Johnson connects with a leg kick. Roads looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Roads throws a body punch but Johnson moves out of range.
Roads is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Roads throws a jab when Johnson was well out of range.
Johnson throws a sloppy head kick and Roads moves out of range easily.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Roads misses the shot to the body.
Johnson slips a jab from Roads.
As Roads backs away, Johnson returns fire with a leg kick that just misses.
A leg kick checked by Roads.
Roads jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Johnson throws a good cross that connects.
Johnson takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Roads throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Roads misses with a body shot.
Johnson looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Balrog Johnson will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Balrog Johnson's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action. This is the final round!

A looping hook to the body misses from Roads. Johnson does a little dance to reset his feet.
Johnson takes a swing at Roads's ribcage but misses.
Roads misses with a wild body shot.
Johnson misses with a leg kick
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
and Roads counters with a right hand to the body.
Roads tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Johnson was well out of range. Poor timing from Roads.
Johnson throws a head kick that misses
and Johnson takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Roads moves out of range of the leg kick from Johnson.
Johnson throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Johnson with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
The fighters circle momentarily. Roads darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nice uppercut there from Roads.
Roads throws a right hand that Johnson ducks under and follows up with a left that Johnson also avoids with ease.
Roads looks to land a right hand but Johnson moved out of range.
Johnson quickly followed up with a counter body kick but doesn't connect.
Johnson fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Roads manages to avoid it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson tries to move into range but Roads moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.

Johnson is rocked!
Johnson is holding his hands too far apart here. Roads throws a hard, straight punch right down the pipe and BOOM! Johnson is out! That punch landed square on the jaw - what a shot!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Damien Roads!
An out of breath Damien Roads thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.