PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Beibitzhan Dastanov (ranked 24500 p4p, 5198 weight class) and Pascal Gouveia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Beibitzhan Dastanov has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Dastanov
vs
Gouveia

200 cm
19
264
5 - 2 - 0

187 cm
35
230
15 - 11 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Powerful

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 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Beibitzhan Dastanov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 11 - 0, fighting out of London, Pascal Gouveia!
The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Paulo Santos and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dastanov misses with a body shot

and Gouveia counters with a nice double leg into side control. Dastanov won't be happy with that.
Gouveia trying to control the position but Dastanov is working away.

Gouveia has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Dastanov is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Gouveia yanks on the arm and Dastanov is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Gouveia.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Pascal Gouveia!
During a confident post fight interview, Pascal Gouveia thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.