PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Ernest Graves (ranked 11 p4p, 103 weight class) and Rod De Minaur (ranked 2 p4p, 16 weight class). De Minaur comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Seek and Destroy kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Rod De Minaur has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Ernest Graves's chin.

Graves
vs
De Minaur

172 cm
37
160
38 - 28 - 2

177 cm
28
157
22 - 5 - 0

BJJ Red Belt
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Voodoo Nutrition

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Voodoo Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 38 - 28 - 2, fighting out of Tokyo, Ernest Graves!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Rod De Minaur!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Percy O'Donnell and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
De Minaur throws a hook but Graves avoids it easily.
Graves ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Graves ducks down and throws a hook to the body but De Minaur moves away.
De Minaur swings for the body but Graves moves out of range.
De Minaur throws a big shot that misses.
De Minaur explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Graves throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent De Minaur stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Graves swings for the body but De Minaur moves out of range.
Graves misses with a wild body shot.
Graves on the wrong end of a nice hook.

It looks like Ernest Graves has been cut.
Graves misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from De Minaur.
Graves misses with a telegraphed body shot

and De Minaur counters with a nice right hand that sends Graves toppling to the canvas! Graves scrambles and gets back to his feet - can De Minaur finish him?!

Graves is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Graves walks into a picture perfect straight right hand from De Minaur! He's gone down face first to the canvas, unconscious before he even hit the floor! Ohhhh. My. Goodness! That boys and girls was a beautiful knockout! Give that man a biscuit!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Rod De Minaur!
Rod De Minaur is the new lightweight champion!
During a confident post fight interview, Rod De Minaur thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.