PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Hideyoshi Okami (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and San Martin Palermo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Palermo is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Adelante Boca Juniors!. Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Okami
vs
Martin Palermo

185 cm
26
196 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

187 cm
26
198 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Hellbent, Inc.™
Bushido Clothing

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 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Hideyoshi Okami!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, San Martin Palermo !
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Daniel Bishop and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Palermo stuffs the takedown attempt from Okami. Okami gets slowly back to his feet.
Okami tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Palermo bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Okami avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Palermo tries to close the distance and clinch but Okami swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Okami shoots in but no luck this time.
Palermo is looking to clinch.
Okami fakes high and shoots in for a takedown but Palermo avoids it really well and circles away.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Hideyoshi Okami. That's going to take a lot out of him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Palermo stuffs the takedown attempt from Okami. Okami gets slowly back to his feet.
Okami shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Palermo as he jumps to the side.
Okami fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Palermo leaves Okami with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Palermo tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Okami counters with a big head kick but Palermo shrugs it off.
Okami throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Palermo 's waist but Palermo gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Okami off to one side.
Okami changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Palermo tries to avoid it but Okami manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Palermo to the ground. Palermo escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Palermo tries to clinch but Okami moves away

so Okami counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Okami is breathing heavily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Okami stops Palermo from standing up.

Okami thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Okami prevents Palermo from getting back to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Okami's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Okami passes Palermo 's left leg - he's now in half guard.

Okami is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Palermo has managed to free his arm - good work.
Okami is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Palermo !

Palermo defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Okami.
Okami controlling from mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Palermo squirming around on the bottom, looking to escape.
Okami pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Okami cracks Palermo with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Okami putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!

Okami is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Palermo is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Palermo flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Okami anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Palermo and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Okami slips an arm under Palermo chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Okami has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Okami is squeezing on Palermo like an anaconda would it's prey. Palermo fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Hideyoshi Okami!