PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Ronaldo Souza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Barry Murphy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Souza
vs
Murphy

185 cm
25
190 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

180 cm
26
185 lbs
4 - 3 - 1

Good takedowns
Basic striking
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

FinnFighter Nutrition (Five 160Q supps!)

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ronaldo Souza!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Barry Murphy!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Nard Betker and Daniel Blasius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Murphy lands a left and a right that send Souza crashing to the mat, dazed. Murphy thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Murphy fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Souza misses with the combination.
Souza shoots in but Murphy avoids the takedown attempt easily.

Souza closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Murphy managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Souza.

Murphy wants to improve his position, back to half guard but Souza has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Murphy's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Murphy is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for Souza!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Ronaldo Souza!