PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Olivier Dujardin (ranked 801 p4p, 2653 weight class) and Anthony Ruiz (ranked 113 p4p, 342 weight class). Dujardin kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Sosa by Leto & Guy2bezbar. Ruiz has chosen DB7 - Squid Game Drill as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. This should be a great matchup!

Dujardin
vs
Ruiz

179 cm
23
179
7 - 2 - 0

188 cm
33
184
13 - 10 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Dangerous knees
Heavy handed

Savage Fightwear
Hoarse Pills

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Olivier Dujardin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 10 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Anthony Ruiz!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, Alyssa Summers and Jorge Garcia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dujardin closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Dujardin lands a body shot.
Ruiz connects with the punch.
Nice straight punches there by Ruiz. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Ruiz.
Ruiz wants to clinch.
Ruiz tries to clinch up but Dujardin circles away and keeps his distance.
Ruiz fails with an attempt to clinch.
Dujardin lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Ruiz at a distance.
Ruiz gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Ruiz wants to clinch.
Ruiz throws a hook but Dujardin avoids it easily.
Dujardin was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Ruiz moves forwards but Dujardin connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Ruiz tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Dujardin changes levels looking for a counter takedown but doesn't commit.
Ruiz misses with a hook. Dujardin ducked under it nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ruiz scores with a three punch combo!
Dujardin looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Dujardin throws a body shot but no joy.
Ruiz throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Ruiz tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Ruiz lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Dujardin has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Dujardin and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Ruiz doesn't manage to clinch there - Dujardin circles away.
Dujardin feinted with a counter takedown.
Dujardin misses with a left hand
and Ruiz counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Ruiz takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Ruiz lands a jab to the nose.
Ruiz takes one to the side of the head.
Anthony Ruiz is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Dujardin bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Ruiz fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Anthony Ruiz seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Ruiz tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Ruiz misses with a low kick.
Dujardin throws a good cross that connects.
Ruiz closes the distance looking to clinch
and Ruiz takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ruiz on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Dujardin walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Dujardin avoids the head kick by Ruiz.
Dujardin appears to be looking for a counter punch to the body.
Ruiz rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Ruiz takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Dujardin throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Dujardin circles away from the clinch attempt.
Dujardin connects with a nice looking jab.
Dujardin throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Dujardin gets tackled into the cage by Ruiz. Ruiz maintains the clinch.
Dujardin tries to throw a body punch but Ruiz avoids it by throwing Dujardin back against the cage.
Ruiz has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Ruiz tries to land a knee to the head but Dujardin blocks with his arms.
Ruiz tries to land knees in the clinch but Dujardin avoids the damage to the body.
Ruiz misses with a knee to the head.
Ruiz tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Dujardin tightens his grip and picks Ruiz up, before dumping him to the ground. Ruiz manages to land in guard.
Ruiz looking for a sweep. Not yet Ruiz, not yet.
Dujardin working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Dujardin wants to pass the guard but Ruiz is keeping the position.
Dujardin scoring with punches to the head and body.
Ruiz is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Dujardin has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Dujardin looking to pass the guard.
Ruiz is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Dujardin working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Ruiz's head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dujardin postures up.
Ruiz is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
Ruiz can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Dujardin controls the pace.
Dujardin lands a couple of decent looking shots.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Dujardin accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Dujardin postures up and lands a big shot to Ruiz's brow.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Dujardin sitting in guard here, content to control.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Dujardin's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Dujardin scoring with punches to the head and body.
Dujardin throws a strike but Ruiz rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Ruiz wants to control from the top but Dujardin keeps moving.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Olivier Dujardin will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Dujardin takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Ruiz misses with a kick to the body
letting Dujardin counter with a right hand.
Ruiz tries to clinch but Dujardin moves out of range.
Dujardin attempts a counter takedown but Ruiz avoids it well and moves away.
Dujardin avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Dujardin keeps the fight on the outside.
Ruiz throws a head kick that misses
and Dujardin counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Dujardin circles away from the clinch attempt.
Dujardin half commits to a counter takedown before pushing away, out of range.
Ruiz lands with a kick to the temple. Dujardin shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"

It looks like Olivier Dujardin has been cut.
Dujardin takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Ruiz darts in trying to clinch
and Dujardin counters with a straight right hand.
Dujardin looks to score with a jab to the body but Ruiz is just out of range.
Dujardin fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Ruiz manages to avoid it.
Dujardin defending well as Ruiz loads up on a big left hand.
Dujardin throwing a counter right hand but Ruiz manages to avoid it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ruiz moves to clinch but Dujardin breaks away

and Dujardin counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Dujardin is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
Dujardin landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Dujardin takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Ruiz is staying active underneath Dujardin, who seems content to just control the action from this position.
Ruiz is trying to stand up here but Dujardin is controlling him well.
Dujardin is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Ruiz has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Dujardin is working away from the top position though.
Ruiz tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Dujardin has advanced to mount. Uh oh.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dujardin working Ruiz over with strikes here.

Ruiz is rocked!
Dujardin has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Ruiz's face.
Ruiz is still in real trouble! Can Dujardin finish him?
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dujardin breaks from Ruiz's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Dujardin connects with a bit shot that sees Ruiz covering up! More strikes from Dujardin and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Dujardin is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:50 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Olivier Dujardin!
A very excited looking Olivier Dujardin made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.