PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gabriel Souza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Henrique Tavares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tavares has chosen Devour the Day - Get Out of My Way as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Souza
vs
Tavares

185 cm
24
217 lbs
6 - 9 - 0

195 cm
29
210 lbs
11 - 9 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Experienced

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Gabriel Souza!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Henrique Tavares!
The judges for this bout are Paul Gruel, Roger Salmon and Chris Saunders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tavares with a hook.
We've been hearing reports that Souza has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Tavares lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.

It looks like Gabriel Souza has been cut.

Tavares lands a big head kick that sends Souza tumbling to the mat! Tavares takes a step backwards and waves Souza back to his feet - he wants the finish!

Souza is rocked!
Souza circles to his right, straight into a beautiful hook by Tavares. Souza falls face first into the canvas - great knockout victory for Tavares!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:17 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Henrique Tavares!
Henrique Tavares spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.