PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Ibasour Sershurrapal (ranked 990 p4p, 1768 weight class) and Abdelrahman Camara (ranked 106 p4p, 195 weight class). Sershurrapal comes to the cage accompanied by Smoking Snakes. Camara is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Heartless. This should be a great matchup!

Sershurrapal
vs
Camara

175 cm
29
145
12 - 7 - 0

160 cm
29
157
18 - 9 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Heavy handed

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ibasour Sershurrapal!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 18 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Abdelrahman Camara!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Shirou Masuda and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sershurrapal closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Camara blocks an uppercut.
Sershurrapal swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Camara misses with a body punch.
Sershurrapal has a couple of punches blocked by Camara.
Sershurrapal has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Sershurrapal lands a hook that snaps the head of Camara backwards.

Camara pulls Sershurrapal into guard.
Sershurrapal is fighting to break Camara's control of his arms but Camara is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Let's hope that Camara 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.
Sershurrapal stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Camara swivels though and keeps the full guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sershurrapal working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Camara keeping full guard, as Sershurrapal tries to pass.
Camara trying to keep a closed guard but Sershurrapal is proving a slippery customer.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Sershurrapal dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Camara takes one on the button.

It looks like Abdelrahman Camara has been cut.
Camara jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Sershurrapal scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sershurrapal misses with a series of wild punches.
Abdelrahman Camara seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Camara misses with an uppercut. Sershurrapal saw that one coming.
Sershurrapal ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Camara takes a swing at Sershurrapal's ribcage but misses.
Camara throws a big shot that misses.
Sershurrapal avoids the head kick by Camara.
As Camara looks to move away, Sershurrapal throws a big counter combo but Camara just gets out of the way.
Sershurrapal catches Camara with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Camara throws a body kick that misses
and Sershurrapal connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Sershurrapal stuns Camara with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Sershurrapal misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Camara.
Camara throws a lazy uppercut
and Sershurrapal counters with a right hand to the body.
Sershurrapal steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Camara.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sershurrapal tries to move into range but Camara moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Sershurrapal throws a body punch but Camara moves out of range.
Camara looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Sershurrapal fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Camara on the side of the head.

Camara is rocked!
Sershurrapal measures up his opponent and throws a superman punch that connects to the jaw! Down goes Camara! The ref steps in, and that's the ball game folks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). Ibasour Sershurrapal!
During a confident post fight interview, Ibasour Sershurrapal thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.