PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Andre Soares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Zero Chance (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Soares comes to the cage accompanied by Black Sabbath - Iron Man. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Soares
vs
Chance

174 cm
27
155 lbs
11 - 9 - 0

170 cm
20
156 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Aspire Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Andre Soares!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Zero Chance!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Patrick Alders and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Chance throws a jab but it's blocked by Soares.

Soares drives through with a takedown into Chance's guard. Let's see what he can do from the top position.
Soares not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.
Soares passes Chance's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Chance tries to get to full guard but Soares has control of the leg.
Chance wants to stand back up but Soares manages to pass into side control.
Soares sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Chance is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Chance prevents Soares from improving position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Chance is pushing Soares's head away, looking to escape. Soares manages to hold on to the position though.

Soares wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Chance, who protects the arm well.
Chance really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Soares. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Soares scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Chance to see if he's OK.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Soares tries for a kimura but Chance is defending well.
Soares gets to mount! Chance was on the offensive and wasn't defending properly.
Soares trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Soares lands a heavy elbow.

It looks like Zero Chance has been cut.
Chance is trying to get to the cage to help him get back to his feet.
Soares pushing the pace here, looking to move to his opponents back and work for a finish.
Soares tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Soares has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Chance blocking the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Chance is looking to improve his position but Soares isn't that keen on the idea.
Soares lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
We've been hearing that Soares has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
Soares can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Chance is looking to escape.
Soares scoring with strikes but Chance is staying in there.

Chance is rocked!
Soares postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Chance bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Soares and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Andre Soares!
Andre Soares made sure to mention his sponsor, Aspire Nutrition in his post fight interview.