PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gavin Blackwood (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jack Sante (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Blackwood might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Catch Your Breath by CFO$. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Blackwood
vs
Sante

191 cm
19
212 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

184 cm
20
205 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Prefers standup

Four Aces Nutrition

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Gavin Blackwood!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Jack Sante!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Sosuke Kotani and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sante tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Blackwood manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Blackwood changes levels looking for a counter takedown but doesn't commit.
Blackwood avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Blackwood will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Sante has Blackwood up against the cage in a clinch.
Blackwood has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Sante avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sante lands with a short shot to the head.
Sante missing with knees to the body.
Blackwood avoids the elbow strike from Sante, against the cage.
A right handed body shot lands from Sante.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Blackwood is looking to take this one to the mat.
Sante throws a head punch that misses.
Blackwood blocking some punches.
Sante missing with knees to the body.
Blackwood takes a knee to the side of the body.
Sante misses with some punches.
We've been informed that Sante has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Blackwood managing to block the knees to the body from Sante.
Sante throws a punch but it's blocked by Blackwood.
Sante tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Blackwood's elbow.
Blackwood on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sante tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Blackwood avoids it.
Sante throws a knee to the head but misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blackwood blocks an uppercut.
Sante lands a damaging elbow.
Sante gets underhooks to prevent Blackwood's takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Gavin Blackwood. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Sante misses with a body punch.
Sante misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Blackwood avoids the elbow strike from Sante, against the cage.
Blackwood managing to block the knees to the body from Sante.
Blackwood tries for a takedown but Sante manages to get underhooks.
A knee to the head by Sante.
Sante tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Sante pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Sante throws an elbow that misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sante throws a punch but it's blocked by Blackwood.
Sante trying to land knees to the body.
Sante is pressed up against the cage. Blackwood has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Sante down to the mat. Sante avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Blackwood fails to land the takedown.
Sante tries to clinch there but Blackwood circles away.
Blackwood feinted with a counter takedown.
Blackwood has a takedown stuffed.
Jack Sante is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Sante is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Sante is looking to clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sante closes the distance looking to clinch

and Blackwood counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Blackwood takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Blackwood is nestled in close to Sante, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

Blackwood seems to be looking for submissions.
Sante avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Blackwood.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Blackwood lands a nice short elbow.
Blackwood works his foot free and advances to mount.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Blackwood postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Sante in real trouble here! The ref calls for Sante to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Gavin Blackwood!
A relieved looking Gavin Blackwood thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.