PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Lucas Traumen (ranked 221 p4p, 1248 weight class) and Pablo Blades (ranked 30 p4p, 144 weight class). Blades has chosen Three 6 Mafia - It's a fight as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Lucas Traumen has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Traumen
vs
Blades

178 cm
25
160
16 - 1 - 0

175 cm
26
165
11 - 5 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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Conviction

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lucas Traumen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 5 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Pablo Blades!
The judges for this bout are Patrick Alders, Albert Achterberg and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Traumen throws a leg kick but Blades sees it coming and moves out of range.
Despite the aggression on Blades's face he doesn't fully commit to the counter.
Traumen connects with a right hand. Blades shakes it off.
Blades blocks a head kick by Traumen.
A left lands for Traumen.

It looks like Pablo Blades has been cut.
Traumen is looking to slow Blades down with leg kicks.

Blades moves into the clinch successfully.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Traumen tries to stall but Blades uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Blades tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Traumen lands a left hand.
Blades tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Still in the clinch, Traumen scores with a nice short uppercut.
Traumen avoiding damage as Blades throws knees to the body.
Blades lands a damaging elbow.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Traumen blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Traumen softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Traumen lands an uppercut.
Traumen lands a left hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Blades obliges.
Blades looking to throw knees to the head but Traumen is blocking nicely.
Traumen tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Blades blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Blades throws a knee to the head but misses.
Blades misses with a knee to the head.
Blades lands a nice elbow.
A short right from Blades.
Blades tries a knee to the head but Traumen blocks it.
Blades blocking some punches.
Traumen is pushing Blades up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Traumen controlling the action here for a moment.
Blades tries to land a knee to the head but Traumen blocks with his arms.
Blades tries to land knees in the clinch but Traumen avoids the damage to the body.
Traumen misses with a hook to the ribs.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Traumen lands an uppercut.
Traumen lands a hook that snaps the head of Blades backwards.
Blades misses with an elbow over the top.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Traumen holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Blades tries to land a knee to the head but Traumen blocks with his arms.

Traumen manages to break the clinch.
Traumen walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Blades checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Blades avoids a kick to the body.
Blades on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Lucas Traumen seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Good shot there by Traumen.

Blades is rocked!
Blades is holding his hands too far apart here. Traumen throws a hard, straight punch right down the pipe and BOOM! Blades is out! That punch landed square on the jaw - what a shot!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Lucas Traumen!
Lucas Traumen decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.