PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Salvador Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bruce Banner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alves comes to the cage accompanied by Mama said "Knock You Out". Banner has chosen xavier rudd - energy song as his entrance music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Alves
vs
Banner

185 cm
26
193 lbs
10 - 4 - 0

180 cm
28
192 lbs
13 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Salvador Alves!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Bruce Banner!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alves takes a swing at Banner's ribcage but misses.
Banner misses with a right hand
and Alves counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Banner has his takedown stuffed
and Alves connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Banner rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
letting Alves counter with a right hand.
Bruce Banner seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Alves keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Alves fails with the takedown.
Alves misses with a hook
and Banner counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Banner cracks Alves with an open hand slap.
Banner showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Alves.
Alves bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Banner swinging wildly here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Banner shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Alves looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Banner stops Alves from standing up.
Banner wants to control from the top but Alves keeps moving.
Alves knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Banner on the ground.
Alves wants to stand up but Banner is controlling him.
Alves wants to hit a switch here but Banner passes into full mount! Oh no, disaster for Alves there!
Alves in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Alves is looking to improve his position but Banner isn't that keen on the idea.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Banner controlling his opponent.
Banner tries to control but Alves wriggling away.
Alves slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.
Banner has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Alves is squirming around, avoiding Banner's attempts to control the action.
Alves is in all sorts of trouble here.
Banner trying to control but Alves is having none of it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Banner fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Banner lands a nice shot to the head.
Alves is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Alves is working hard here to advance position.
Banner working Alves over with strikes here.

Banner working for a submission but Alves is keeping him at bay.
Banner wants to control the pace but Alves is squirming around nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Alves takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Banner lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Alves hang on?
Banner cracks Alves with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Banner working the ground and pound effectively.
Banner lands with some strikes.

Alves is rocked!
Banner scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Alves?
Alves is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Banner loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Alves scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Banner land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Banner stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Bruce Banner!