PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between junior dos santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Porter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). dos santos comes to the cage accompanied by fire with fire. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

dos santos
vs
Porter

194 cm
27
188 lbs
8 - 12 - 0

190 cm
29
194 lbs
16 - 11 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Experienced

Powerful takedowns
Good low kicks
Granite chin

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 8 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, junior dos santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Chris Porter!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Skip Squint and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A head kick by dos santos misses
letting Porter counter with a right hand.
dos santos chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Porter can pounce on him.
Porter throws a lazy right hand but dos santos sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.

Porter darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Ground and pound from Porter.
dos santos tries to get to full guard but Porter has control of the leg.
Porter perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
dos santos pushes Porter off looking to stand but Porter dives back in and keeps control.
Porter has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Porter is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Porter content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Porter lands strikes from half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Porter performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
dos santos knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Porter on the ground.
dos santos pushes Porter off looking to stand but Porter dives back in and keeps control.

Porter is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and dos santos defends it well.
Porter working over dos santos with some ground and pound. dos santos looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Porter lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Porter controlling the action here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Porter lands strikes from half guard.
Porter is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Porter content to control rather than advance.

Porter is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! dos santos is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Chris Porter!