PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rafik Arfah (ranked 6681 p4p, 568 weight class) and Ido Ori (ranked 3874 p4p, 457 weight class). Ido Ori has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Rafik Arfah's chin.

Arfah
vs
Ori

150 cm
18
205 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

181 cm
25
202 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Determined

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 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Rafik Arfah!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ido Ori!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Winston Alpacca and Santiago Holmes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Arfah misses with a telegraphed body shot
enabling Ori to counter with a crisp jab.

It looks like Rafik Arfah has been cut.
Ori lands with a nice body punch.
Arfah swings for the body but Ori moves out of range.
Arfah swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Ido Ori seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Ori connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Arfah takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Arfah tries a low kick but Ori avoids it.
Arfah could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Ori lands a nice shot to the body.
Ori scores with a shot to the body.
Arfah takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Arfah is breathing heavily.
Ori thuds a left hand into Arfah's body.
Ori is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Arfah rather than just go for the knockout.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Ori lands with a good body shot.
Ori lands a body shot.
Ori paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Arfah takes a shot to the body in his stride.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ori walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Arfah drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Ori swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Arfah's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:07 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ido Ori!
Ido Ori thanked the fans post fight for their support.