PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Julius Big Man (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Annakin Drako (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Big Man comes into the arena with Big Man blaring out of the sound system. Annakin Drako struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 187.4lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Big Man
vs
Drako

185 cm
27
190 lbs
9 - 2 - 0

180 cm
25
200 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Very strong

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Tends to cut

MayheM sportswear
Sun-Tzu

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Julius Big Man!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Annakin Drako!
The judges for this bout are Lou da Vinci, Eddie Farnsworth and David Schapiro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Big Man fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Drako, pushing him back against the cage.
Drako has dropped down and is looking to force the takedown but it's defended by Big Man after a bit of a struggle.
Drako is trying to drag Big Man to the mat but Big Man just about manages to keep his footing. He used the cage to his advantage there.
Big Man is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Julius Big Man has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Annakin Drako.
Big Man landing knees to the head.

It looks like Annakin Drako has been cut.
Big Man scores with a shot to the side of Drako's head.
Big Man comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Big Man lands an elbow just above Drako 's eye.
Big Man crunches a lovely knee into Drako's ribcage.
Drako looks winded!
Big Man is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Big Man taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Big Man lands with a light punch inside.
We can't be sure of the tactics at this early stage but we have heard that Drako has been working on his takedowns a lot in the buildup to the fight and we can only assume he's going to look to take this to the mat.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Big Man is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Big Man landing knees to the body.
Big Man lands a left hand that snaps the head of Drako backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Big Man working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Big Man lands a good knee to the midsection. Drako won't want to take too many of those.
Big Man lands a nice elbow.
Drako takes an elbow to the temple.
Drako takes an elbow to the forehead.

Drako is rocked!

That has opened up Annakin Drako's cut even more.
Big Man lands a good knee to the midsection. Drako won't want to take too many of those.
Big Man displaying some good clinch control by pressing Drako up against the cage.
Big Man using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Knees to the body from Big Man.
Big Man lands an elbow that stopped Drako in his tracks for a moment.
Drako is still on wobbly legs! Can Big Man finish him?
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Knees to the body from Big Man.
Drako is pressed against the cage. Big Man pushes back and unleashes a big elbow that really hurts Drako! Two more big strikes from Big Man and Drako crumples to the mat and taps out furiously due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Julius Big Man!
Julius Big Man retains his middleweight title!
A victorious Julius Big Man thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.