PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Rapen Murder (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rodrigo Cabral (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rapen Murder has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Murder
vs
Cabral

165 cm
25
148 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

169 cm
21
145 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
Very quick

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Spartan Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Rapen Murder!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Rodrigo Cabral!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Ivan Kurochkin and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cabral throws an overhand right that lands on Murder's shoulder, as Murder tries to avoid the shot.
A nice combination there by Cabral.
Cabral lands a nice hook to Murder's body. Murder takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Cabral throws a right and a left that both miss.
Cabral throws a sloppy head kick and Murder moves out of range easily.
Murder attempts a counter takedown but Cabral avoids it well and moves away.

Murder shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.

Murder is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Cabral has managed to free his arm - good work.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.

Murder is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Cabral really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Murder. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Murder is just content to waste time from the top position. Cabral takes advantage of the situation and regains full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cabral controls Murder momentarily but Murder frees himself.
Cabral is avoiding any damage by keeping wrist control.
Murder wants to control from the top but Cabral keeps moving.
Cabral is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Cabral controlling the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Murder trying to control the position from guard on top but Cabral is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
Good standup being displayed there by Cabral as he connects with a hook.
Cabral throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Cabral throws a leg kick which misses Murder's front leg but catches the back leg as Murder tries to avoid it.
A jab from Cabral finds it's way through Murder's defenses.
A looping hook to the body misses from Murder. Cabral does a little dance to reset his feet.
Murder lands with a good body shot.
Murder looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Murder jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Cabral.
Cabral with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Murder stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Cabral.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Murder is pinned up against the ropes taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Murder takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
A head kick from Cabral lands but Murder takes it in his stride.
Murder needs to keep his hands up - Cabral had a free shot at his head there.
Murder takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Murder misses with a double jab.
Cabral throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
Murder avoids the head kick by Cabral.
Rodrigo Cabral is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Cabral scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Murder keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Cabral.
Rodrigo Cabral seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Murder throws out a loose jab but Cabral uses good head movement to avoid it.
Cabral throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Murder.
Murder is looking to counter punch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Murder takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Murder throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Cabral sees it coming and avoids it easily.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cabral misses with a straight left.
Cabral scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
No joy there for Cabral, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Cabral loads up on a big right hand but Murder slips the punch.
Cabral scores with a head kick.
Cabral slips under a jab.
It seemed like Cabral was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Murder avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Decent striking displayed by Cabral there.
Cabral throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Murder's head.
Cabral throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Murder on the side of the head.
Cabral misses with a head kick.
Murder takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Murder waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Cabral.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Cabral! But no joy.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Rodrigo Cabral dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Murder misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Cabral connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Murder jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Murder on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Murder throws out a powerful jab.
Cabral is looking to land body kicks.
Murder walks into a left hand.
Rodrigo Cabral seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Cabral lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Cabral avoids the body shot from Murder.
A countering left hand to the body from Cabral misses.
Cabral swinging wildly here.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Cabral with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Murder gets cracked there but stands up to it.
A good leg kick by Cabral.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab from Cabral finds it's way through Murder's defenses.
Cabral throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Murder avoids a kick to the body.
Good standup being displayed there by Cabral as he connects with a hook.
Cabral lands a slapping body shot.
Cabral lands with a kick to the temple. Murder shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Cabral lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Cabral scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.

Murder is rocked!
Cabral drops a shoulder and throws an uppercut that cracks Murder right on the button. Murder goes down! Cabral follows him to the mat and finishes the job with more strikes! Cabral gets the win via TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rodrigo Cabral!
An out of breath Rodrigo Cabral thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.