PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Danny Stephens (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jose Maichuso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Stephens might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Yeah by Usher. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Stephens
vs
Maichuso

181 cm
20
199 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

178 cm
23
205 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Big heart

Good takedowns
Brawler
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Danny Stephens!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jose Maichuso!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Jack Bonds and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Stephens shoots in for a double leg but Maichuso sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
Stephens looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Maichuso scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Maichuso works to advance to full mount. Stephens defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Maichuso pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Maichuso with good strikes from the mount here!
Maichuso has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Maichuso lands with some strikes.

Stephens is rocked!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Maichuso sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Oh Stephens is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Maichuso pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Maichuso sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

Stephens is flailing around, obviously not happy about being mounted. Maichuso locks hold of one of his arms and spins for an armbar. He's got it! Stephens is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Jose Maichuso!
Danny Stephens spoke after the fight, saying 'I want a title shot!'.