PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Katsurou De La Bambasio (ranked 8568 p4p, 742 weight class) and Preston Lawson (ranked 8917 p4p, 757 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think De La Bambasio might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Steve James - Warrior feat. LIGHTS. Preston Lawson is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

De La Bambasio
vs
Lawson

187 cm
26
205 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

187 cm
20
205 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
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 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Katsurou De La Bambasio!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Preston Lawson!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Fujiwara, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
De La Bambasio tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Lawson shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.

Lawson scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.

Lawson seems to be working for a kimura but De La Bambasio defends the submission attempt.

Lawson is working for a submission of some sort.

Lawson wants to work for an arm triangle but De La Bambasio is really keeping half guard well and defending the submission attempt.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Lawson in particular looking to stall.
De La Bambasio is looking to escape.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lawson wants to lay and pray for a moment but De La Bambasio keeps working.
Lawson prevents De La Bambasio from standing back up.

Lawson is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
De La Bambasio knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Lawson on the ground.
De La Bambasio is looking to get back to is feet but Lawson passes into side control.

Lawson tries for a kimura but De La Bambasio is defending well.
Lawson working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

De La Bambasio bucks up and manages to escape back to his feet!
Lawson seems to be squinting his left eye. Perhaps he got a poke in that previous exchange. De La Bambasio shows no mercy and swarms him with a barage of strikes! Lawson is backing up but De La Bambasio catches him with a final right hook that drops him! Lawson covers up and the referee steps in to end the fight! De La Bambasio Jumps to his feet and flashes his guns to the crowd. Oh yeah, baby! How'd you like them apples?!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Katsurou De La Bambasio!