PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Rigoberto Lamas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Liam Anderson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lamas's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Brazilian National Anthem. Anderson has chosen Radioactive-Imagine Dragons as his entrance music. Liam Anderson has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Rigoberto Lamas's chin.

Lamas
vs
Anderson

170 cm
19
186 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

200 cm
18
185 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter fighter
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Rigoberto Lamas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Liam Anderson!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Sandra Marshall and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Anderson lands a nice hook to Lamas's body. Lamas takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Anderson throws out a powerful jab.
Lamas takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Anderson swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Anderson scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Lamas takes a shot right to the bread basket.
A jab from Anderson does it's job there.

It looks like Rigoberto Lamas has been cut.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Lamas shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Anderson tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Lamas might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Lamas advances to half guard.

Lamas 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. Anderson tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Lamas!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Rigoberto Lamas!
Rigoberto Lamas decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.