PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Myles Draiman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pablo Ruiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ruiz has chosen El niño maravillas as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Draiman
vs
Ruiz

185 cm
18
195 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

179 cm
19
195 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Myles Draiman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Pablo Ruiz!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Aleksandr Martynov and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ruiz looks for a takedown but Draiman sprawls well.
Ruiz takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Draiman lands with a good body shot.
Ruiz lands a head shot.
Draiman with a jab.
Ruiz misses with a takedown
and Draiman counters with a straight right hand.
A combination from Ruiz does no damage.
Ruiz with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Draiman to score with a decent uppercut.
Ruiz throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Ruiz fails with a takedown attempt.
Myles Draiman has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Pablo Ruiz.
Draiman jabs Ruiz to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Ruiz looks winded!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Ruiz tries to clinch but Draiman is having none of it.
Ruiz fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
We've been told by Draiman's head coaches at The Axis of Evil that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Draiman lands a big right hand that sends Ruiz crashing to the mat! Draiman stays standing though and waves Ruiz back to his feet!

Ruiz is rocked!
Draiman ducks down into range and throws a picture perfect right hook that connects with Ruiz's jaw. Ruiz's eyes stare off into space as he falls to the mat, out cold! Draiman does the decent thing and steps back, rather than landing any shots to his unconscious opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:15 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Myles Draiman!
A very excited looking Myles Draiman rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.
Pablo Ruiz was interviewed post fight and said 'Dude that was tough '.