PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ueda Umanouke (ranked 2 p4p, 1 weight class) and DJ Maximus (ranked 57 p4p, 4 weight class). Umanouke's entrance music is Kenji Kawai's Making of a Cyborg. A fine choice. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Umanouke
vs
Maximus

190 cm
30
280 lbs
22 - 8 - 0

204 cm
34
255 lbs
34 - 17 - 0

BJJ Red Belt
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Urban Fighter
Hellraiser FightGear

HELLBENT

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 8 - 0, fighting out of London, Ueda Umanouke!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 34 - 17 - 0, fighting out of New York, DJ Maximus!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Umanouke blocks a jab.
Maximus lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Umanouke circles away quickly and effectively.
Maximus looks to throw a body kick

and Umanouke counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Umanouke is looking to pass into half guard but Maximus pushes him away with his feet and jumps on top - now Maximus is in guard.

Maximus stopping the sweep attempt from Umanouke.
Maximus's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Umanouke is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Umanouke seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Umanouke can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Maximus controls the pace.
I've been told that Maximus has been drilling his wrestling of late, which has already helped him take this fight to the mat. Let's see how much of an impact it has on the outcome of the ground game.
Umanouke is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maximus tries to stand but Umanouke is controlling from the bottom.
Umanouke wants to sweep but no luck.
Umanouke might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Umanouke being controlled here, momentarily.
Umanouke looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

Maximus stands over his opponent and dives in with a flying punch! Umanouke throws up his legs and catches Maximus in a triangle! Oh this looks tight! Maximus tries to escape but he's forced to tap! Wow, fantastic work there by Umanouke! That came out of nowhere!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Ueda Umanouke!
Ueda Umanouke retains his heavyweight title!
Ueda Umanouke 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.