PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Pablo Escobar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ryan Jacobs (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Escobar comes to the ring accompanied by Dr. Kitch. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Escobar
vs
Jacobs

175 cm
27
159 lbs
17 - 12 - 0

175 cm
33
155 lbs
15 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 17 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Pablo Escobar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Ryan Jacobs!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Gwen Towbar and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Escobar misses with a jab, cross combination.
Escobar keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Jacobs slips a jab and a cross from Escobar.
Jacobs avoids the body shot from Escobar.
A head kick misses from Escobar.
Jacobs scores with the left hand. Escobar knows he should have avoided that one.
Escobar fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Escobar throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Jacobs fails to land with a series of punches.
Jacobs misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Escobar misses the jab.

Jacobs scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Jacobs landing a few strikes.
Jacobs working the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Escobar parries the strikes from Jacobs easily there. Jacobs is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Escobar to escape.
Jacobs working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Jacobs cracks Escobar with a big right hand but Escobar just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Jacobs lands a decent elbow from side control.
Jacobs working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Escobar sneaks back into half guard.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.

Jacobs seems to be looking for submissions.
Jacobs content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Escobar slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Escobar looking for a sweep. Not yet Escobar, not yet.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Jacobs accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Jacobs throws a big right hand that misses.
Escobar trying to strike off his back.
Jacobs postures up.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.

Jacobs is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Jacobs stays in close to Escobar's body and controls the position.
Jacobs has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Escobar is proving hard to escape from.
Jacobs trying to control the position from guard on top but Escobar is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Jacobs drops back looking for a submission - "I'm sorry sir, but I'm gunna break your leg" says Jacobs as he cranks on the unfortunate limb! Escobar screams and taps out before any major damage is done! Don't mess with Jacobs! Nice submission victory there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Ryan Jacobs!
Ryan Jacobs seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.