PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lyoto Maia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Steve Rogers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Maia
vs
Rogers

183 cm
23
197 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

190 cm
23
184 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Good knees
Experienced

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

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 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Lyoto Maia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Steve Rogers!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, James Glass and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rogers on the wrong end of a kick to the body.

Rogers instigates a clinch.
Maia scores a nice knee to the body.
Rogers looks gassed!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Maia unloads a knee to the mid-section. Rogers lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Maia crunches a lovely knee into Rogers's ribcage.
Maia lands a knee to the body.
Rogers being controlled against the cage.
Maia with a knee to the head.
Maia scores a nice knee to the body.
Maia unloads a knee to the mid-section. Rogers lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Nice elbow from Maia.
Rogers takes a knee right on the jaw!
Maia lands a knee to the head.
Maia stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Nice elbow from Maia.
Maia lands an elbow inside that Rogers shrugs off.
Maia landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maia landing knees to the head.
Maia with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Maia.
Maia comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Maia using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Maia lands an elbow inside.
Maia with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Maia scores a nice knee to the body.
Maia scores with a knee to the head.
Knees in the clinch landing for Maia.
Maia connects with a knee to the head.
Maia tries to land a knee to the head but Rogers blocks with his arms.
Maia blocks a body shot from Rogers.
Maia tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

Rogers breaks from the clinch.

Maia closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Maia looking to throw knees to the head but Rogers is blocking nicely.
Rogers lands a shoulder strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rogers can't break the clinch.
Maia tries to land a knee to the head but Rogers blocks with his arms.

Rogers tightens his grip and picks Maia up, before dumping him to the ground. Maia manages to land in guard.
Rogers with a flurry of punches that miss.

Rogers avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Rogers lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Maia manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Poor strikes thrown by Maia there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Rogers is trying to stand up.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rogers is trying desperately to improve position.
Maia landing strikes from the mount.
Maia scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Maia looking to control but Rogers is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Maia punishing his opponent with strikes.
Maia with the ground and pound from mount.
Maia avoids the attempt from Rogers to control.
Maia postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Rogers looks a forlorn figure.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Rogers flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Maia is landing with some decent strikes but Rogers is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
A nice elbow there by Maia.
Maia pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Maia with good strikes from the mount here!
Rogers is squirming around, avoiding Maia's attempts to control the action.
Maia scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Rogers?
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Maia looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Maia controlling from the full mount.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Lyoto Maia dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Rogers is looking to clinch.
Maia swings away with a leg kick that misses.
A head kick from Maia lands but Rogers takes it in his stride.
Rogers swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Maia lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.

Maia gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Maia controls Rogers momentarily but Rogers frees himself.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Maia manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Rogers manages to get himself to full guard.
Rogers tries to land a sweep but no joy.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maia works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Maia is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Rogers is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Maia cracks Rogers with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Rogers is trying desperately to improve position.
Maia tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Maia lands a big shot there that rocks Rogers but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Maia trying to control but Rogers is having none of it.
Rogers wants to improve position but instead he's given up his back.
Maia lands with a couple of good shots - one to the side of the head and one questionable shot that could be viewed as to the back of the head but the referee lets it go.
Maia is landing with strikes from the back.
Maia throwing lazy shots from the back mount that aren't doing any damage.

Maia is working for the choke. He's slipped one arm under the chin. Rogers has to defend the other arm for all he's worth... but Maia has managed to get that arm free too and he's tightening the choke! Rogers taps out and looks absolutely disgusted with himself. Maia doesn't care though - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:04 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Lyoto Maia!