PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Gregor Dunhill (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James May (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gregor Dunhill looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Dunhill
vs
May

181 cm
19
173 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
22
180 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent elbows
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Tends to cut

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Gregor Dunhill!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, James May!
The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Emerson Jorge and Edson Gomes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dunhill stuffs the takedown.
May fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
May shoots in and drives through. Dunhill sprawls well.
Gregor Dunhill has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of James May.
May swats away the attempt to clinch by Dunhill.
May shoots in for a takedown but Dunhill shows good takedown defense.
May shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Dunhill as he jumps to the side.
May scores with a leg kick.
Dunhill is looking to clinch but May is avoiding it.
Dunhill wants to clinch.
Dunhill tries to clinch up.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Dunhill with a lazy takedown attempt

and May decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Dunhill's guard.
May controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
May passes Dunhill's right leg, so he's now in half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
May uses his free foot to push down on Dunhill's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Dunhill.
May content just to control the position here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Dunhill is wriggling around trying to escape.

May with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
May looks gassed!
May controlling from mount.
Dunhill keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
May lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

May looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Dunhill's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.

May is in full mount, looking to secure a guillotine but Dunhill is surviving well by controlling May's body position as best he can.
Dunhill working to try and regain half guard.
May controlling the position easily from mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.

May is working close to his opponent, looking to work a submission by the looks of things. Oh, he's managed to get a guillotine from mount as his opponent reached up! That looks tiiiiight! Will he tap? YES, he's tapped! Impressive submission by May!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). James May!