PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rico Mera (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Legend Wait For It (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Mera
vs
Wait For It

182 cm
18
210 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
18
195 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Tends to cut

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Rico Mera!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Legend Wait For It!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, David Hoff and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Mera moves into the clinch.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mera throws an elbow but misses.
Wait For It tries to land knees in the clinch but Mera avoids the damage to the body.
Mera misses with an elbow over the top.
Mera throws an elbow but it misses.
Mera blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Wait For It looking to throw knees to the head but Mera is blocking nicely.
Wait For It dodges an elbow strike from Mera.
Mera looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Wait For It dodges an elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It misses with a knee strike.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike.
Mera could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Mera throws an elbow but it misses.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
Mera takes an elbow to the temple.

It looks like Rico Mera has been cut.
Wait For It misses with a knee to the head.
Mera misses with an elbow strike.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Wait For It throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mera blocks it with crossed arms.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Wait For It landing some nice looking knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wait For It avoids the elbow strike from Mera, against the cage.
Mera creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Wait For It with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Wait For It dodges an elbow strike from Mera.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
Mera managing to block the knees to the body from Wait For It.
Wait For It tries a knee to the head but Mera blocks it.
Wait For It dodges an elbow strike from Mera.
Mera misses with an elbow over the top.
Mera throws an elbow that misses.
Wait For It misses with a knee strike.
Wait For It lands a knee to the body.
Mera throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Wait For It lands a knee to the head.
Mera is breathing heavily.
Wait For It looking to throw knees to the head but Mera is blocking nicely.
Mera dodges an elbow strike from Wait For It.
Wait For It with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Wait For It misses with a knee to the head.
Wait For It throws a knee to the head but misses.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mera creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Wait For It tries to land knees in the clinch but Mera avoids the damage to the body.
Wait For It throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mera blocks it with crossed arms.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike.
Mera throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Mera blocks an elbow strike.
Mera pushes off an throws an elbow but Wait For It leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
Wait For It dodges an elbow strike from Mera.
Mera pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Mera avoids a wild elbow strike from Wait For It.
Wait For It lands a good knee to the midsection. Mera won't want to take too many of those.
Mera pushes off an throws an elbow but Wait For It leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Wait For It utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Wait For It trying to land knees to the body.
Mera avoids the elbow strike from Wait For It, against the cage.
Wait For It connects with a knee to the head.
Mera avoids a wild elbow strike from Wait For It.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mera blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Wait For It throws a knee to the head but misses.
Mera avoids the elbow strike from Wait For It, against the cage.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Mera has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Wait For It connects with a nasty looking knee right to Mera's face.
Wait For It with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Mera misses with an elbow strike.
Mera dodges an elbow strike from Wait For It.
Wait For It throws a knee to the head but misses.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Mera pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Wait For It with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Mera throws an elbow but it misses.
Wait For It misses with an elbow over the top.
Mera avoids the elbow strike from Wait For It, against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Mera blocks an elbow strike from Wait For It.
Wait For It throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mera blocks it with crossed arms.
Wait For It misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Mera.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Wait For It misses with a knee strike.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
Mera throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Mera throws an elbow that misses.
Mera avoids a wild elbow strike from Wait For It.
Wait For It tries a knee to the head but Mera blocks it.
Mera throws an elbow but it misses.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mera throws an elbow but misses.
Wait For It creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Mera throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Wait For It blocks an elbow strike.
Wait For It looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Mera pushes off an throws an elbow but Wait For It leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Wait For It throws an elbow that misses.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mera just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wait For It's brow.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Legend Wait For It dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Rico Mera's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Wait For It gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Wait For It tries to land a knee to the head but Mera blocks with his arms.
Mera pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Mera blocks an elbow strike.
Wait For It tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Wait For It with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Legend Wait For It seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Mera looks to throw an elbow but misses.
The step up in weight doesn't seem to be a problem for Wait For It. He's performing admirably here against the bigger man.
Wait For It tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Wait For It has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Mera throws an elbow that misses.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mera throws an elbow but misses.
Mera throws an elbow but it misses.
Mera blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Mera managing to block the knees to the body from Wait For It.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mera throws an elbow but misses.
Mera lands a damaging elbow.
Wait For It blocks the elbow strike.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mera throws an elbow but misses.
Wait For It blocks the elbow strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wait For It avoids a wild elbow strike from Mera.
Mera pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Knees in the clinch landing for Wait For It.
Mera throws an elbow that misses.
Wait For It throws a knee to the head but misses.
Mera misses with an elbow over the top.
Wait For It avoids the elbow strike from Mera, against the cage.
Mera looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Wait For It throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Mera blocks it with crossed arms.
Wait For It connects with a knee to the head.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Mera throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Wait For It avoids the elbow strike from Mera, against the cage.
Mera on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

Wait For It drops Mera with a big knee straight up the middle! Mera is covering up against the cage but manages to escape and gets back to his feet!

Mera is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Wait For It moves into the clinch.
Oh Mera is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Wait For It throws a knee to the head but misses.
Wait For It misses with a knee strike.
Wait For It crunches a lovely knee into Mera's ribcage.
Wait For It misses with a knee to the head.
The fighters are battling for dominant position up against the cage here. Wait For It manages to get control of his opponent's head and throws a big knee - Mera drops to the canvas! He's done! Wait For It goes wild and celebrates with his corner - this is a big victory for him and to get the win in such devastating fashion will certainly boost his reputation amongst the fans!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Knee). Legend Wait For It!