PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sorin Ban (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Grom Le Paunche (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ban
vs
Le Paunche

192 cm
18
240 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

200 cm
25
255 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Sorin Ban!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Grom Le Paunche!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Valeri Chadov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Le Paunche on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Ban tries to clinch but Le Paunche moves out of range.
Le Paunche scores with a nice strike.

It looks like Sorin Ban has been cut.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Le Paunche crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Ban - the referee stops the clock and Le Paunche gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Ban. Le Paunche manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.

Le Paunche cracks Ban with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Ban looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Le Paunche finish him?

Ban is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Le Paunche throws an overhand right that drops Ban like a sack of potatoes! Le Paunche dives in to finish the fight with more strikes and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:16 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Grom Le Paunche!
During a confident post fight interview, Grom Le Paunche thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.