PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Victor Ortiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pooja Jakhotia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ortiz
vs
Jakhotia

184 cm
24
200 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

200 cm
20
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

Good takedowns
Good kicks
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Victor Ortiz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Pooja Jakhotia!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Daniel Franklin and Cecil Peabody.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Ortiz scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Ortiz working away.
Jakhotia is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Ortiz looks up at the clock and then as Jakhotia takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Ortiz smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Jakhotia prevents Ortiz from moving into mount.
You can see the frustration on Jakhotia's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Jakhotia tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Ortiz wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.

Ortiz has hold of Jakhotia's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Jakhotia tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Ortiz cranks the arm and Jakhotia screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Jakhotia, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Victor Ortiz!