PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Roman Vitali (ranked 2625 p4p, 2690 weight class) and Jardani Jovonovich (ranked 288 p4p, 297 weight class). Vitali comes to the cage accompanied by ULKENDER - Machenskii. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Vitali
vs
Jovonovich

180 cm
25
180
2 - 0 - 0

188 cm
25
170
3 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Roman Vitali!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Jardani Jovonovich!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Bart Greer and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Jovonovich closes the distance and pushes Vitali back into the cage.

Vitali has hold of one of Jovonovich's legs. Jovonovich is fighting the takedown attempt but Vitali gets the trip and lands the takedown into guard.

Vitali avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Vitali knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Jovonovich on the ground.
Vitali wants to control from the top but Jovonovich keeps moving.

Vitali avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Vitali trying to control but Jovonovich is working from the bottom.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Vitali has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vitali connects with a couple of short punches.
Jovonovich is trying to control the position but Vitali postures up.
Vitali controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

Jovonovich has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Vitali doesn't defend quickly enough and Jovonovich has managed to lock this one up! Can Vitali escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Jovonovich on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Jardani Jovonovich!