PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Ronaldo Souza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and The Drunk (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Souza comes to the cage accompanied by Mv Bill - Marginal Menestrel . Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Souza
vs
Drunk

183 cm
18
188 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

180 cm
18
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Purple 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 Los Angeles, Ronaldo Souza!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, The Drunk!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Horrible takedown by Drunk or perhaps it was just good defense by Souza which made him look bad.

Souza moves into range and clinches up with Drunk.
Drunk is working for takedown but Souza is calmly controlling the position for now.
Souza has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Drunk is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.

Souza is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. Drunk can't fight it off and eventually Souza manages to take the fight to the floor. Drunk looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Souza postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

Drunk looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Souza is fighting to break Drunk's control of his arms but Drunk is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.

Drunk working for a triangle but Souza defends it easily.
Souza loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Souza lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Souza throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Souza throwing strikes but missing.
Souza has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Souza tries to free his leg and advance position but Drunk is retaining full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Souza throws and elbow that misses. Drunk uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Souza's guard. Nice move by Drunk!
Souza keeping moving, preventing Drunk from controlling successfully.
Souza looking to hit a scissor sweep but Drunk is one step ahead there.

Souza looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.

Drunk thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.

Souza gets a takedown into half guard.
Souza not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Drunk avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Souza.
Drunk has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Souza is working away from the top position though.
Drunk blocking the ground and pound attempt from Souza.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Drunk is looking to improve his position.
Drunk looks gassed!

Drunk makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!
Drunk closes the distance and clinches up with Souza, looking for a takedown. Drunk pushes Souza against the cage but Souza circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Ronaldo Souza has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of The Drunk.
Drunk fails to land the takedown.

Souza feints and as Drunk raises his hands in defense, Souza changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Drunk manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Drunk controlling from mount.
Drunk looking to control but Souza is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Drunk sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Drunk can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Souza is looking to escape.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Souza is in all sorts of trouble here.

Drunk looking for a guillotine from mount but Souza is having none of it.

Drunk has control of Souza's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Souza regains control of the situation pretty easily.
Souza taking shots to the head.
Souza is squirming around, avoiding Drunk's attempts to control the action.
Drunk looking to finish Souza with some ground and pound. This is bad for Souza!
Souza is looking to get to half guard.
Drunk unloading with bombs!
Drunk controlling the pace for now.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Drunk is standing up out of mount! Strange tactic there - he must really want this one on the feet!

Souza fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Drunk sprawls well initially but Souza persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Drunk wants to improve his position but Souza is controlling well.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Souza trying to pass the guard but Drunk defending well.
Drunk is not content to let Souza control the position.
Souza is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Souza is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Drunk trying to control here.
Drunk gets full guard.
Souza postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Drunk looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Souza throwing strikes from guard but Drunk blocks nicely.
Drunk scores with a couple of body punches from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but The Drunk will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Souza shoots in for a takedown but Drunk shows good takedown defense.
Souza shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Drunk but Drunk pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Souza looks for a takedown but Drunk sprawls well.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Ronaldo Souza. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Souza shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Souza looks frusrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Souza shoots in but Drunk avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Souza closes this distance looking for a takedown but Drunk circles away.
Drunk is looking to clinch.
Souza tries to grapple but his opponent circles

and Drunk counters with a nice double leg into side control. Souza won't be happy with that.
Drunk scoring with punches from side control.
Souza regains half guard.
Drunk stalling.

Drunk in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Souza tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Drunk!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:01 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). The Drunk!