PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Cesar Dominguez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Stefan Pruvhe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dominguez's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, The Unforgiven by MetallicA. Cesar Dominguez has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Dominguez
vs
Pruvhe

176 cm
29
178 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

180 cm
29
190 lbs
8 - 9 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Fight Night Nutrition

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 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Cesar Dominguez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Stefan Pruvhe!
The judges for this bout are Micheangelo Fripello, Josh West and Colin Fray.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dominguez misses with a low kick.
Nice straight punches there by Pruvhe. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Pruvhe.
Dominguez shoots for a takedown but Pruvhe saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.

Dominguez gets the takedown into side control.
Dominguez working the ground and pound.
Pruvhe tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Dominguez wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Dominguez trying to control the action but Pruvhe is working from the bottom.
Pruvhe is trying to improve his position.
Pruvhe takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Dominguez lands an elbow.
Check out the look on Dominguez's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Dominguez 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.
Dominguez just content to control the position.
Dominguez scores with punches from side control.
Dominguez controls the position.
Pruvhe really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Dominguez. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dominguez wants to control but Pruvhe is keeping him busy.
Dominguez scores with a couple of short elbows.
Dominguez working the ground and pound from side control.
Dominguez controlling the position from side mount.
Pruvhe tries to get back to half guard but can't.

Dominguez is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Pruvhe knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
Pruvhe manages to work his way to half guard, despite Dominguez's best efforts.
Dominguez lands with a punch from half guard.
Dominguez winds up and cracks Pruvhe with a swinging punch to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Dominguez is thwarting Pruvhe's attempts to control the position.
Dominguez wants to control but Pruvhe is keeping him busy.
Dominguez lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Dominguez looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Pruvhe with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Pruvhe trying to hold on to Dominguez's head to control him but Dominguez postures up.
Dominguez working over Pruvhe with some ground and pound. Pruvhe looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Dominguez lands strikes from half guard.
Dominguez is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
Dominguez frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Pruvhe is trying to escape the mount.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dominguez lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Pruvhe wants to control but Dominguez is having none of it.
Pruvhe is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Pruvhe taking shots to the head.
Pruvhe tries to reverse the position but Dominguez maintains control.
Dominguez working away from the top, dropping strikes.

Pruvhe is rocked!
Pruvhe takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Pruvhe is still in real trouble! Can Dominguez finish him?
Pruvhe takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! Dominguez's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Cesar Dominguez!
During a confident post fight interview, Cesar Dominguez thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.