PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Your Down (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Roger Machado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Your Down has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Down
vs
Machado

196 cm
25
248 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

187 cm
29
270 lbs
15 - 5 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
Big right hand

Excellent grappler
Brawler
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Your Down!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Roger Machado!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Paul Tew and Colin Fotheringham.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Machado scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Machado is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
Down is in a tricky position but he's been working on his transitions down at London MMA Club, so we'll see if he gets out of it.
Machado uses his free foot to push down on Down's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Down.

Machado is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, Down has managed to escape the submission attempt.

Machado working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Down looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Machado! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Roger Machado!
Roger Machado seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.