PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Junior Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bryan Young (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Santos
vs
Young

188 cm
25
211 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

184 cm
18
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Tends to cut

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Junior Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Bryan Young!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Steve Erwin and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santos throws a hook to the side of Young's head but Young sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Santos avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Santos drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Santos chips away with some ground and pound.
Santos throwing strikes from guard but Young blocks nicely.
Santos postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

Young has his foot on Santos's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Santos works his way back into a safe position though.
Santos working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Santos content to stall in guard here.
Santos cracks Young with a solid left hand.
Santos is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Santos throwing strikes but missing.
Santos throwing strikes but missing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Young utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Santos in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Santos content to stall in guard here.
Santos's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
Santos keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Young's head.
Santos forces his way into half guard.
Ground and pound from Santos.
Santos scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Santos perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Santos has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos slips a nice elbow through Young's hands, connecting with Young's forehead.
Santos stalling.

Young looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Santos decides he's had enough of the ground and stands up.

Santos shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Santos was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Young looks gassed!
Santos controlling the pace for now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santos is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Santos lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Young hang on?
Young taking shots to the head.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Young takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Santos looking to finish Young with some ground and pound. This is bad for Young!
Santos is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Young can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Santos landing strikes from the mount.
Young is in a horrible position here. Santos smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Santos pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Santos controlling the pace for now.
Santos fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Santos sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Young is bucking up trying to escape but Santos cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Santos cracks Young with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Young is bucking up trying to escape but Santos cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Santos scoring with strikes but Young is staying in there.
Santos has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Santos scoring with strikes but Young is staying in there.
Santos controlling the position easily from mount.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Santos lands a big elbow.
Santos controlling the position easily from mount.
Santos working away from the top, dropping strikes.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Junior Santos dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Santos looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Santos stopping the sweep attempt from Young.
Santos makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.

Santos stands and steps away. Young gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
Young tries to close the distance and clinch but Santos swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

Santos scores with a takedown into Young's guard.
Santos keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Young's head.
Young keeping full guard, as Santos tries to pass.
Santos distracts Young with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Junior Santos overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Young is breathing heavily.
Santos seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.

The ref stands the fighters back up because Junior Santos just wasn't active enough.
Young takes a jab right on the kisser.
Young tries to clinch up.

Santos throws the overhand right but ducks down into a quick takedown attempt. Young was covering up waiting for the punch and Santos finishes the takedown easily into guard.
Young can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Santos controls the pace.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos is in close to Young's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Santos not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Junior Santos wasn't doing enough on the ground.

Santos shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Santos cracks Young with a solid left hand.
Santos working some strikes from top position.
Santos stopping the sweep attempt from Young.
Santos keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Young's head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santos stands up over Young, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Santos lands a couple of elbows.
Santos looking to control the position here, rather than advance.
Santos makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.

Santos decides he's had enough of playing guard and decides to stand. Come on Young, up you get!

Santos changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Young looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Young is trying to escape the position but Santos is controlling the position.

Santos decides to stand up, so the ref orders Young to his feet.

Santos looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Santos is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Santos preventing the sweep.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Junior Santos wasn't doing enough on the ground.

Santos shoots in for a takedown and gets it.

Santos decides to return to a standing position.
Santos is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Young can do to turn this around?
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
A lazy left from Santos finds it's target.
Junior Santos seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Santos lands a jab to the head.

Santos is looking for a takedown here. He's shot in and has managed to get it, finishing up in Young's half guard.
Santos perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Junior Santos dominated that second round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final round!

Santos has closed the distance and engaged Young in a clinch.

Santos pulls guard.
Santos is pulling down on Young's head to control his posture.
Santos throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Santos is looking to sweep but instead, Young has passed into half guard.
Santos is positioning himself well to prevent Young advancing to mount.
Young takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Santos gets full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Young preventing the sweep.
Santos pulls Young in close to prevent any damage.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Junior Santos wasn't doing enough on the ground.
Young misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Santos.

Young shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Santos's guard.
Young wants to control from the top but Santos keeps moving.
Santos striking from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos pulls Young in close to his closed guard and prevents Young from doing any damage or advancing position.
Santos on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Santos tries to get out of the position.
Santos throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Santos is pulling down on Young's head to control his posture.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.

A momentary lapse in concentration from Young enables Santos to shoot in and score with a neat double leg. Young manages to secure a closed guard as the fighters hit the mat.
Santos keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Young's head.
Santos controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Junior Santos wasn't doing enough on the ground.

Young tries to sprawl but Santos drives through with a takedown into half guard.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Santos scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Santos winds up and cracks Young with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Santos lands with a punch from half guard.
Santos sitting and controlling from the half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Santos lands a nice short elbow.
Santos looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Junior Santos wasn't doing enough on the ground.

Santos clinches up against the cage.

Santos has hold of one of Young's legs. Young is fighting the takedown attempt but Santos gets the trip and lands the takedown into guard.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Santos working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Young's head.
Santos connects with a couple of short punches.
Bryan Young has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Junior Santos is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Santos controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

And that's the end of the fight!
Junior Santos showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Santos has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Winston Howard scores the fight 30:25
Judge Steve Erwin scores the fight 30:25
Judge Skip Squint scores the fight 30:25

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Junior Santos!