PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joey Farboni (ranked 4887 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vahan Karamyenyan (ranked 4734 p4p, 0 weight class). Karamyenyan has chosen Bonecrusher - Saw Theme Remix as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Farboni
vs
Karamyenyan

190 cm
24
205 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

186 cm
42
216 lbs
22 - 24 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
KO power

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Heavy handed

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 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joey Farboni!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 24 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Vahan Karamyenyan!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Karamyenyan shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Farboni's guard.
Farboni working a defensive guard here.
Karamyenyan working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Farboni wants to sweep here but Karamyenyan controlling him for the moment.
Karamyenyan sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Farboni's guard.
Karamyenyan prevents Farboni from improving his position.

Karamyenyan is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Karamyenyan is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Farboni sees it coming and defends easily.
Karamyenyan content to control rather than advance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Farboni trying to control here but he's found himself mounted! Oh no!
Karamyenyan tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Farboni is trying to stand.
Karamyenyan controlling the position easily from mount.
Karamyenyan with good strikes from the mount here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Karamyenyan takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Farboni is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Karamyenyan with good strikes from the mount here!
Karamyenyan controlling his opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Farboni is trying to stand up.
Farboni takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Farboni tries to get back to half guard but can't.

Karamyenyan is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. Farboni 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.
Karamyenyan working the ground and pound effectively.

Farboni is rocked!
Karamyenyan controlling from mount.
Whack. That's a big, big shot from Karamyenyan! Farboni is out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Vahan Karamyenyan!
During a confident post fight interview, Vahan Karamyenyan thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.