PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Anthony Placencia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dan Kolov (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Placencia's entrance music is Eminem - The Monster Ft. Rihanna. A fine choice. Dan Kolov struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 156.2lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Dan Kolov will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Placencia
vs
Kolov

178 cm
30
155 lbs
8 - 10 - 0

190 cm
20
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 10 - 0, fighting out of New York, Anthony Placencia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Dan Kolov!
The judges for this bout are Josh West, Chris Saunders and Ryoma Takatsuka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Placencia clinches.
Still in the clinch, Kolov scores with a nice short uppercut.
Kolov lands a left hand.

Placencia is trying to trip Kolov. He has hold of a leg but Kolov is hopping around, keeping his balance for the moment. Placencia persists though and gets the takedown into guard.
Placencia passes Kolov's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Placencia scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Placencia thows a huge punch but Kolov dodges it nicely.
Placencia landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Placencia controlling the action here.
Placencia working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Placencia passes the guard and advances to mount!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Placencia breaks from Kolov's wrist control and lands an elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Placencia working Kolov over with strikes here.
Placencia fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

Placencia has hold of Kolov's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and Kolov manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Placencia working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Placencia landing shots from mount.
Placencia connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Kolov has left one of his arms exposed and Placencia doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Kolov screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Anthony Placencia!
Post fight, an emotional Anthony Placencia said 'This Is It. Its Here Baby..'.