PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Goran Schwarzeneg (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Henrique Tavares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tavares comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Devour the Day - Get Out of My Way kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Goran Schwarzeneg has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Schwarzeneg
vs
Tavares

187 cm
46
210 lbs
23 - 74 - 1

195 cm
30
210 lbs
12 - 10 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 23 - 74 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Goran Schwarzeneg!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Henrique Tavares!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Shirou Masuda and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Schwarzeneg misses with a double jab.
Tavares ducks under a wild hook from Schwarzeneg.
Schwarzeneg throws a sloppy body shot
letting Tavares counter with a right hand.
Tavares throws a sloppy head kick and Schwarzeneg moves out of range easily.
A punch combination from Tavares misses.
Tavares takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Schwarzeneg misses with a head kick.
Tavares keeps the fight on the outside.
Schwarzeneg drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Tavares closes the distance and lands a one-two.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tavares has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Tavares catches Schwarzeneg with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!

Schwarzeneg is rocked!
Tavares Throws a clean left jab. Tavares Twirls his body and connects with a Spinning Back Fist that connects flush with Schwarzeneg's chin! Schwarzeneg crumbles to the ground and Tavares follows up with some unanswered strikes. It's all over!! Nice standup skills displayed by Tavares!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Henrique Tavares!
After the fight, Henrique Tavares was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.