PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Roosevelt Leeroy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tommy Rosario (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Leeroy
vs
Rosario

187 cm
25
180 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
25
168 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Very quick

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Roosevelt Leeroy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Tommy Rosario !
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Tiny Johnson and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rosario has his takedown stuffed
and Leeroy counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
No luck for Rosario with that takedown attempt.
Rosario misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Leeroy.
Leeroy lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Leeroy is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Leeroy throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Rosario counters with a single leg into guard. Leeroy didn't expect that.
Rosario stays in close to Leeroy's body and controls the position.
Rosario sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Leeroy's guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Leeroy wants to get back to his feet.
Rosario lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Leeroy has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Rosario is working away from the top position though.
Rosario tries to pass to full mount but Leeroy defends it.
Rosario is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Leeroy trying to control from the bottom.
Rosario working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Rosario controlling the action here.
Rosario working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

Rosario stands up from half guard.

Leeroy tries to sprawl but Rosario drives through with a takedown into half guard.
Leeroy is breathing heavily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rosario wants to pass to mount but Leeroy is defending the position.
Rosario looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Rosario is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Rosario performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Rosario moves nicely into side control.
Rosario controlling the position from side mount.
Let's hope that Rosario has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rosario lands a decent elbow from side control.
Rosario has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Leeroy!
Rosario scoring with strikes but Leeroy is staying in there.
Rosario controlling his opponent.
Leeroy takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Rosario looking to control and managing it successfully.
We're seeing a lot of stalling here from Rosario .
Rosario has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Leeroy's face.

Leeroy is rocked!

Rosario has control of Leeroy's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Leeroy regains control of the situation pretty easily.

Rosario 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. Leeroy looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Rosario ! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Tommy Rosario !