PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Leopold Duval (ranked 6630 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pierce Ottoade (ranked 3751 p4p, 0 weight class). Pierce Ottoade will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Duval
vs
Ottoade

178 cm
20
212 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

191 cm
25
221 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

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 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Leopold Duval!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Pierce Ottoade!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Santiago Holmes and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Duval gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Ottoade connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

It looks like Leopold Duval has been cut.
Ottoade lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Ottoade stuffs the takedown.
Duval goes for a double leg but Ottoade avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Ottoade continues to drive forward.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Leopold Duval. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Duval closes the distance looking to clinch
and Ottoade counters with a nice body shot.
Ottoade stuffs the takedown attempt from Duval. Duval gets slowly back to his feet.
Ottoade unleashes a big counter combination but Duval bobs and weaves and avoids any damage.
Duval definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Ottoade keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Duval takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Duval takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Duval is breathing heavily.
Duval takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Ottoade is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Duval has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Ottoade finds it's way round the side to connect with Duval's head.
Ottoade throws an uppercut from hell that sends Duval clean off his feet! He's out cold! Ottoade stands back and admires his work as he thinks about that KO of the night award that is surely being wrapped up for him back stage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Pierce Ottoade!