PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Damien Maia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hakeem Hakeem (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Maia
vs
Hakeem

183 cm
22
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

179 cm
22
180 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Damien Maia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Hakeem Hakeem!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Bruno Hogan and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Maia looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Hakeem!
Maia sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Maia looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Maia has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Maia looking to control and managing it successfully.
Hakeem is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maia with the ground and pound from mount.
Maia content just to control the position here.
Maia landing strikes, looking to finish!
Maia controlling the position easily from mount.
Maia landing shots from mount.
Hakeem is wriggling around trying to escape.
Maia pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Maia landing shots from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Maia sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Hakeem is desperately trying to improve his position but Maia has a good base and remains in mount.
Maia sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Maia punishing his opponent with strikes.
Maia has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Hakeem's face.
Maia pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Maia avoids the attempt from Hakeem to control.

Hakeem tries to improve his position but Maia has taken his back! Maia has a choke - it's sunk in pretty tight... Will Hakeem tap? No... maybe... yes! He's tapped! Maia pushes Hakeem away and gets up to celebrate with his corner!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Damien Maia!