PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Pad Digger (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Christian dos Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The fight MMA fans around the world have waited their entire lives for!

Digger
vs
dos Santos

176 cm
22
190 lbs
7 - 6 - 0

180 cm
19
190 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Pad Digger!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Christian dos Santos!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, John Mangel and Eliza Hachem.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
dos Santos tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Digger manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

dos Santos gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Digger pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. dos Santos is keeping the position for now.
dos Santos controls Digger momentarily but Digger frees himself.
Digger tries to free his leg and advance position but dos Santos is retaining full guard.
Digger works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Digger working the head and body with strikes.
Digger takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.
dos Santos is trying to control but can't.

Digger is looking for a kimura here.
Digger controlling the pace.
dos Santos is trying to maintain the position but Digger is very close to passing his half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Digger throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
dos Santos is trying to escape back to his feet but Digger uses the scramble to pass into side control.
Digger lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear dos Santos down.
dos Santos can't do much from the bottom here.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
dos Santos is being controlled here.
dos Santos sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
Digger performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Digger scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
dos Santos is looking for a sweep. Digger is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Digger slows the pace down in half guard.
Digger passes to side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Digger controls the position from side control.
Digger works to advance to full mount. dos Santos defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
The referee warns dos Santos that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Digger tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Digger landing strikes from the mount and dos Santos is in trouble!
Digger looking to control and managing it successfully.
dos Santos wants to control but Digger is having none of it.
Digger sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

Digger is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. dos Santos can see it coming though and defends well with a couple of strikes to the head and some good arm positioning.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Digger controlling from mount.
Digger working the ground and pound effectively.
Digger putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!

It looks like Christian dos Santos has been cut.
dos Santos is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Digger lands a heavy elbow.
dos Santos is trying to escape the mount.
Digger landing strikes, looking to finish!
Digger controlling from the full mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
dos Santos is desperately trying to improve his position but Digger has a good base and remains in mount.
Digger lands a heavy elbow.
Digger looking to control and managing it successfully.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Digger pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

That has opened up Christian dos Santos's cut even more.
Digger controlling the pace for now.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pad Digger dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Christian dos Santos's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

dos Santos with a poor takedown
and Digger counters with a left and a right that stings dos Santos.

Digger closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. dos Santos did well to prevent Digger getting side control.
dos Santos has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Digger is working away from the top position though.
Digger is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Digger content to control rather than advance.
dos Santos wants to control but Digger is keeping busy and won't allow it.
dos Santos is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Digger is thwarting dos Santos's attempts to control the position.
Digger is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Pad Digger has forced the referee to step in and bring the fight back to the feet.

Digger scores a takedown into full mount!
Digger lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
dos Santos tries to control Digger's body but Digger pushes him off. dos Santos squirms to his side and now Digger has his back!

Digger looking for the RNC.

Digger is working for the choke. It looks like he might have got it... has he...? Yes! dos Santos is tapping out! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Pad Digger!