PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alfonza Roberts (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hattori Hanzo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hattori Hanzo acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Roberts
vs
Hanzo

208 cm
22
265 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

195 cm
19
230 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Alfonza Roberts!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hattori Hanzo!
The judges for this bout are Lou da Vinci, Anthony Taglia and Alyssa Summers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Hanzo drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Hanzo wants to pass the guard but Roberts is keeping the position.
Roberts knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Hanzo on the ground.
Hanzo throws and elbow that misses. Roberts uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Hanzo's guard. Nice move by Roberts!
Hanzo lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Roberts!
Roberts is in all sorts of trouble here.
Hanzo in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Roberts working to try and regain half guard.
A nice elbow there by Hanzo.
Roberts is breathing heavily.
Hanzo is in the full mount, landing strikes.

Roberts is rocked!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hanzo with shots to the head and body - Roberts looks very uncomfortable down there.
Oh Roberts is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hanzo throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hanzo looking to finish with strikes here!
Hanzo unloads with some shots from mount but Roberts bucks and avoids them well.
Hanzo throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Roberts because Hanzo loaded up on that one.
Hanzo looking to ground and pound but Roberts is blocking nicely.
Hanzo unloads with some shots from mount but Roberts bucks and avoids them well.
Hanzo looking to ground and pound but Roberts is blocking nicely.
Hanzo misses with a series of strikes from mount. He'll no doubt be working on his ground and pound when he gets back to the gym.
Hanzo throwing strikes here but Roberts is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Hanzo thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Hanzo thowing shots but they're missing.
Hanzo looking to ground and pound but Roberts is blocking nicely.
Roberts blocking the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Hanzo throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Roberts because Hanzo loaded up on that one.
Poor strikes thrown by Hanzo there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Hanzo punching from mount but Roberts doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Roberts is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Hanzo throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Roberts because Hanzo loaded up on that one.
Roberts holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Hanzo tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.

Hanzo with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Hanzo looking to finish with strikes here!
Hanzo throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Roberts because Hanzo loaded up on that one.
Hanzo misses with a head shot.
Roberts seems to have got his legs back now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Roberts takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Roberts is looking to get to half guard.
Hanzo cracks Roberts with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Hanzo lands a nice shot to the head.
Roberts takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Roberts tries to hold on but Hanzo postures up.
Hanzo putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Roberts is squirming around, avoiding Hanzo's attempts to control the action.

Hanzo goes for an armbar but he's fallen flat on his backside there and now Roberts is on top in guard.
Hanzo lands a couple of shots from the bottom.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hanzo wants to improve his position but instead Roberts has moved into half guard.
Hanzo tries to roll over but Roberts keeps him under control.

Roberts decides to return to a standing position.
Roberts stuffs the takedown.

Roberts rushes Hanzo and presses him up against the cage.

Roberts breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Roberts showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Hanzo.
Roberts keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Hattori Hanzo seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
No luck for Hanzo with that takedown attempt.
Alfonza Roberts has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Hattori Hanzo.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Hanzo misses with a series of wild punches.
Horrible takedown by Roberts or perhaps it was just good defense by Hanzo which made him look bad.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hattori Hanzo dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Hanzo gets a big slam - oh, Roberts is out! Roberts is out! That's a nasty KO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Slam). Hattori Hanzo!