PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Dre Adams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shinya Nakamura (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shinya Nakamura has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Adams
vs
Nakamura

190 cm
26
190 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

188 cm
21
195 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Experienced

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Good gas tank

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 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Dre Adams!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Shinya Nakamura!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Alexandre Firmino and Felipe Paraventi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nakamura misses with a looping left.
Adams rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Nakamura moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Adams cracks Nakamura with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Nakamura scores with a punch to the head.
A swing and a miss from Nakamura.
A little feinted left hand from Adams on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Nakamura lands a right hook to the body.
Adams throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Good shot there by Adams.
Adams swats away the attempt to clinch by Nakamura.
Adams closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Nakamura misses with a body shot.
Adams is looking to counter punch.
Adams misses with a wild body shot.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Adams keeps the fight on the outside.
Adams scores with a jab.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Nakamura throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Nakamura tries to clinch there but Adams circles away.
Nakamura throws a hook but Adams blocks it.
Nakamura fails with an attempt to clinch.
Adams throws a hook to the side of Nakamura's head but Nakamura sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Adams throws a series of punches but Nakamura moves out of range.
Adams has been working on his boxing with his coaches at AXIS - Rio Gym in the buildup to the fight.
Adams misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Nakamura.
Adams ducks under a wild hook from Nakamura.
Nakamura throws a big shot that misses.

Nakamura shoots in and gets a takedown into Adams's guard.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Nakamura's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Adams wants to stand and escape but Nakamura is having none of it.
Nakamura has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Nakamura won't allow Adams to sweep him here.
Nakamura tries to free his leg and advance position but Adams is retaining full guard.
Adams preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Nakamura is working Adams over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Nakamura postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Nakamura is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Adams tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Nakamura sitting in guard, not really doing much.
Nakamura working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Nakamura stands up over Adams, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Nakamura slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Nakamura passes Adams's right leg, so he's now in half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Adams taking some punishment here, with Nakamura in his half guard.
Nakamura winds up and cracks Adams with a swinging punch to the side of the head.

Adams is rocked!
Nakamura lands a massive shot from half guard that has rocked Adams! More strikes land and this one is all over! Nakamura jumps to his feet and is applauded loudly by the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Shinya Nakamura!
A very excited looking Shinya Nakamura made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.