PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricardo Nogueira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andreas Reinhardt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Andreas Reinhardt has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Nogueira
vs
Reinhardt

189 cm
30
209 lbs
20 - 10 - 0

193 cm
23
210 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very quick

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 20 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Ricardo Nogueira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Andreas Reinhardt!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Konstantin Menshow and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nogueira tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Reinhardt connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Nogueira momentarily.
Reinhardt connects with a nice looking jab.
Reinhardt just misses with a punch to the body.
Nogueira swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Nogueira looks to land a body kick but Reinhardt moved away.
A jab from Reinhardt does it's job there.
Nogueira showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Reinhardt.
Reinhardt scores with a jab to the head.
Reinhardt moves out of range as Nogueira strikes.
Reinhardt lands with a right hand.

It looks like Ricardo Nogueira has been cut.
Nogueira misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Reinhardt swinging wildly here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Reinhardt throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nogueira swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Nogueira rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Reinhardt moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Reinhardt misses with a hook. Nogueira ducked under it nicely.
Reinhardt will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Reinhardt misses the shot to the body.
Reinhardt misses with a straight right.
Reinhardt throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Nogueira.
Reinhardt swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Nogueira dives in and grabs Reinhardt's left leg, looking for a takedown. Reinhardt pushes down on Nogueira's head and hops out.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nogueira tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Reinhardt was well out of range. Poor timing from Nogueira.
Reinhardt throws a lazy uppercut

and Nogueira counters with a nice double leg into guard.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.

Nogueira drops back for a leg here. A bit of a high risk move... He's looking for a kneebar by the looks of things. Now both of them are looking for submissions. Nogueira seems to have locked his on tight now - Reinhardt screams in pain and taps out furiously! It certainly was a high risk move but it's paid off for Nogueira, as he picks up the win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Ricardo Nogueira!