PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Lemmy Bang (ranked 62 p4p, 42 weight class) and Diogo Jimenez (ranked 7 p4p, 5 weight class). Bang comes to the cage accompanied by For Heavy Metal we will die!. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Bang
vs
Jimenez

169 cm
32
145
18 - 8 - 0

167 cm
36
146
31 - 11 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Granite chin

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Bondi MMA 🏝️

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Voodoo Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 18 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Lemmy Bang!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Diogo Jimenez!
The judges for this bout are Richard Clark, Colin Fotheringham and Phil Schofield.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice jab there from Bang.
Jimenez throws out a loose jab but Bang uses good head movement to avoid it.
Bang lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Bang slips under a jab.
We've been told by Bang's head coaches at Heavy Metal that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
A looping hook to the body misses from Jimenez. Bang does a little dance to reset his feet.
Bang dips to his left and cracks Jimenez with an uppercut!
Jimenez rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Bang moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Bang throws a big shot that misses.
Jimenez throws out a counter right but Bang avoids it with no problem.
A punch combination from Jimenez misses.
Bang takes a swing at Jimenez's ribcage but misses.
Jimenez takes a swing at Bang's ribcage but misses.
Bang throws a big shot that misses.
It seemed like Jimenez was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Jimenez blocks a low kick nicely.
Nice defenses there by Bang.
Jimenez misses with a looping left.
Bang misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Jimenez.
Bang checks the leg kick.
Bang throwing a counter right hand but Jimenez manages to avoid it.
Bang throws a leg kick but Jimenez sees it coming and moves out of range.
Jimenez takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Bang misses with an uppercut
and Jimenez cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Jimenez throws a hook but Bang avoids it easily.
A punch lands to the side of Bang 's head but he takes it in his stride.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bang misses with a hook.
Bang scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Jimenez swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Bang lands a nice looking body kick.
Bang throws a body punch but Jimenez moves out of range.
Bang waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Jimenez.
Jimenez closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Bang swings for the body but Jimenez moves out of range.
Jimenez lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Bang misses with a looping right.
Jimenez avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Jimenez uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Bang.
Bang connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Bang lands a slapping body shot.
Bang ducks under a wild hook from Jimenez.
Bang slips under a jab from Jimenez.
Bang slips under a jab from Jimenez.
Jimenez might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Bang thows a left - swing and a miss!
Jimenez steps in looking to clinch after the strikes miss from Bang.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Bang looks to score with a jab to the body but Jimenez is just out of range.
Jimenez looks to throw the jab but Bang is out of range.
Lemmy Bang is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Bang misses with a straight right.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Jimenez misses with a hook.
A looping hook to the body misses from Jimenez. Bang does a little dance to reset his feet.
Jimenez misses with a hook.
Jimenez throws a jab when Bang was well out of range.
Nice defenses there by Bang.
Good shot there by Bang.
Jimenez listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Bang throws a leg kick
and Jimenez counters with a nice uppercut.
Jimenez tries to clinch up.
Jimenez throws a body punch but Bang moves out of range.
Jimenez slips under a jab.
Jimenez swinging wildly here.
Jimenez displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Bang throws out the jab.
Bang keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Bang throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Jimenez sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Bang throws a hook but Jimenez avoids it easily.
Jimenez scores with a nice right hand.
Jimenez throws out a loose jab but Bang uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bang misses with a wild body shot.
Jimenez misses with a wild body shot.
Bang keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Nice body punch from Jimenez.
Bang looks to land a right hand but Jimenez moved out of range.
Bang misses with a straight left.
Bang throws a poor cross that misses
letting Jimenez counter with a right hand.
Jimenez misses the jab.
Jimenez steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Bang.
Jimenez tries a head kick but it misses.
Jimenez jabs at Bang's body.
Bang will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Bang catches Jimenez with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Bang connects with a body shot that sends Jimenez's belly button to the back.
Bang throws a sloppy body shot
and Jimenez counters with a straight right hand.
Bang tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Jimenez was well out of range. Poor timing from Bang.
Jimenez bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Jimenez lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Jimenez looks to throw the jab but Bang is out of range.
Bang is looking to land body kicks.
Jimenez is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Bang had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into mush.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bang slips under a jab.
Nice straight punches there by Bang. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Bang.
Bang misses with a low kick.
Jimenez connects with a right hand. Bang shakes it off.
Bang keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Jimenez with a jab.
Bang lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Bang throws a hook but Jimenez blocks it.

Jimenez scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.

Jimenez is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Bang has escaped the position, nice work there.
Jimenez gets to mount! Bang was on the offensive and wasn't defending properly.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Jimenez manages to capitalize on a mistake by Bang to take his back!

Bang tries to escape but he's let his defenses down in doing so and Jimenez has slipped in the rear naked choke! Oh, that's tiiiiiiiiight! Bang is tapping! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Diogo Jimenez!
Diogo Jimenez is the new featherweight champion!
A very excited looking Diogo Jimenez rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.