PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Snaggle Tooth (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lorenzo Santoria (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Snaggle Tooth has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Tooth
vs
Santoria

182 cm
22
192 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

193 cm
19
185 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Prefers ground

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Snaggle Tooth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Lorenzo Santoria!
The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Daniel Cesar and Thiago Cunha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tooth misses with a few strikes there.
Santoria looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
No luck for Tooth with that takedown attempt.
Santoria throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Tooth throws a right and a left that both miss.
Santoria avoids a punch combination nicely.

Tooth shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Tooth was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Tooth putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Santoria tries to hold on but Tooth postures up.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Tooth looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

Tooth gets to his feet and calls his opponent to stand. Here come the fireworks!
Nice takedown defense from Santoria. No joy for Tooth on that attempt.
Tooth drops Santoria with a nice combination! Tooth dives into Santoria's guard, looking to finish!

Santoria is rocked!

It looks like Lorenzo Santoria has been cut.
Tooth working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Santoria's head.
Santoria is still in real trouble! Can Tooth finish him?
Tooth with a nice head shot there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for leaving it all in the cage!
Tooth works a leg free and moves into half guard.

Tooth is looking for a kimura but Santoria is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Tooth to get the leverage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santoria is not content to let Tooth control the position.
Santoria seems to have recovered his senses.
Santoria makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Santoria.
Tooth postures up in Santoria's guard and throws a big left but Santoria blocks it.
Tooth advances position into side control!
Tooth scores with punches from side control.
Tooth 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.
Tooth trying to control the position but Santoria is working away.
Santoria striking from the bottom but nothing landed.
Tooth lands a decent elbow from side control.
Santoria is working to avoid the ground and pound but Tooth connects with a decent elbow.
Santoria wants to control but Tooth postures up.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Santoria is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.
Santoria trying to hold on to Tooth's head to control him but Tooth postures up.
Tooth looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.

The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Tooth decides to stand up.

Tooth decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.
Tooth working the head and body with strikes.
Tooth frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Tooth putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Tooth landing shots from mount.
Santoria is bucking up trying to escape but Tooth cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

Tooth is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. Santoria 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.
Tooth lands a big elbow.
Tooth postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Santoria bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Tooth and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Snaggle Tooth!