PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Puppy Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cristiano Nascimento (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Love might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Otherside by Mackemore X Ryan Lewis. Nascimento has chosen Symptom of The Universe (1975) as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Love
vs
Nascimento

187 cm
34
217 lbs
26 - 14 - 0

189 cm
31
214 lbs
19 - 11 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

KO Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 26 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Puppy Love!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Cristiano Nascimento!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Frank Antenori and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nascimento with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Nascimento fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Love on the side of the head.
Nascimento throws a low kick, looking for Love's leg but Love calmly moves out of range.
Love has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch but Nascimento swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Nascimento takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.

It looks like Cristiano Nascimento has been cut.
Nascimento takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Love cracks Nascimento with an open hand slap.
Love throws a jab when Nascimento was well out of range.
Nascimento's coach down at Red Battle was telling us pre-fight that they have been working on Nascimento's balance. Obviously they view that as a key factor in the outcome of this fight.
Nascimento takes one to the side of the head.
Nascimento throws a low kick, looking for Love's leg but Love calmly moves out of range.
Love takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Nascimento fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Love dives in for a single leg takedown but Nascimento sprawls and the fighters end up clinched against the cage.
Nascimento digs a right hand underneath Love's ribcage. Love let out a lung full of air as it connected.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Love.
Nascimento lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love swings wildly with an uppercut but Nascimento uses good head movement to avoid it.
Love can't find room to land a body shot as Nascimento controls the action.

Love breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Nascimento misses with a low kick.
Nascimento swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Nascimento tries a low kick but Love avoids it.
Love misses the jab.
Good shot there by Nascimento.
Nascimento blocks a jab.
Love misses with a hook.
Nice defenses there by Love.
Love misses with a hook. Nascimento ducked under it nicely.

Love has managed to clinch.
Love is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Nascimento creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Love lands on the inside with an uppercut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Love's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Nascimento with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Love connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Nascimento ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Nascimento turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Love is breathing heavily.
Nascimento drops Love with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Love! Nascimento dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Cristiano Nascimento!
A relieved looking Cristiano Nascimento thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.