PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Blaine Drimitri (ranked 3321 p4p, 4029 weight class) and Alonso Lima (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alonso Lima has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Drimitri
vs
Lima

185 cm
25
210
3 - 1 - 0

190 cm
18
199
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big right hand

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Blaine Drimitri!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Alonso Lima!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Viktor Lagutenko and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Drimitri dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
The fight stays on the outside here - Lima looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Drimitri jabs Lima right on the nose. Lima blinks but takes it well.

It looks like Alonso Lima has been cut.
Lima on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Lima misses with a double jab
and Drimitri counters with a nice uppercut.
Lima misses with a takedown

and Drimitri counters with a crisp right hand that drops Lima! Drimitri lets Lima back up to his feet, looking for a finish!
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!
Lima closes this distance looking for a takedown but Drimitri circles away.

Drimitri drops Lima with a hook right on the temple. He thinks about going to the ground but Lima looks back up at him and smiles so Drimitri waves him back to his feet - he obviously thinks he can knock him out after that shot landed.

Lima is rocked!

That has opened up Alonso Lima's cut even more.

That's one minute gone in the round.
BAM! Drimitri delivers a spinning backfist that drops Lima like a ragdoll! This is all oooooveeeer! He was out before he hit the ground!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:07 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Spinning Backfist). Blaine Drimitri!
Blaine Drimitri decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.