PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jed High (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kevin Rhodes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

High
vs
Rhodes

190 cm
23
190 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

192 cm
24
203 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Enjoys gardening

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Jed High!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kevin Rhodes!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rhodes shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
High looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Rhodes seems to be working for a kimura but High defends the submission attempt.

Rhodes is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.

Rhodes looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Rhodes is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
High trying to control from the bottom.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Rhodes gets to his feet - back to striking we go!
Rhodes lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.

Rhodes scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Ground and pound from Rhodes.

Rhodes in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. High tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Rhodes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:02 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Kevin Rhodes!