PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Jeno Christ (ranked 2736 p4p, 2227 weight class) and Junqueiro Santo Amaro (ranked 345 p4p, 280 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Christ
vs
Santo Amaro

185 cm
20
185
3 - 1 - 0

175 cm
20
175
4 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jeno Christ!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Junqueiro Santo Amaro!
The judges for this bout are Steve Smith, Alec Ball and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Christ has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Christ there as he acknowledges the shot.
Christ misses with a hook
and Christ takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Santo Amaro scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Santo Amaro throws a shot from downtown. Christ moves away and avoids it.
Christ looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Christ misses with a lunging right hand
and Santo Amaro counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Christ throws a right hand that misses
and Santo Amaro counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Christ misses with a shot to the body
enabling Santo Amaro to counter with a crisp jab.
Santo Amaro digs a good body shot into Christ's ribs.
Santo Amaro takes a shot to the body in his stride.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Santo Amaro ducks under a wild hook from Christ.
Jab, jab by Santo Amaro - just one landing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santo Amaro throws a hook to the side of Christ's head but Christ sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Santo Amaro on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Christ staying out of range there.
A counter left hand to the body from Christ misses its target.
Christ throws a jab when Santo Amaro was well out of range.
Christ misses the body punch
letting Santo Amaro counter with a right hand.
A slow jab from Santo Amaro misses its intended target.
A looping hook to the body misses from Santo Amaro. Christ does a little dance to reset his feet.
Christ is looking to counter punch.
Christ will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Santo Amaro! But no joy.
Christ lunges at Santo Amaro with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Santo Amaro's hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santo Amaro throws a body punch but Christ moves out of range.
Santo Amaro misses with a body shot.
Santo Amaro misses with a right hand
and Christ counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Christ with a nice cross.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Christ takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Christ moves away from the strike by Santo Amaro.
Santo Amaro displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Christ throws out the jab.
Christ misses with a series of wild punches.
Santo Amaro doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Santo Amaro has been working his punching technique in the buildup to the fight and it appears to be paying off.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Christ digs a good body shot into Santo Amaro's ribs.
Christ fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Santo Amaro throws a hook to the side of Christ's head but Christ sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Santo Amaro throws a looping overhand right but Christ ducks down to avoid it.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Christ, as that shot connected.
Christ moves out of range as Santo Amaro strikes.
Santo Amaro with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Santo Amaro tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Christ was well out of range. Poor timing from Santo Amaro.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sloppy strikes from Christ. Those never looked like landing.
Santo Amaro swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Santo Amaro avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Santo Amaro lands a jab.
Jeno Christ seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Santo Amaro uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Christ.
Santo Amaro throws the left hand but Christ avoids the punch easily.
Christ swings widly with a right hand
and Santo Amaro counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Santo Amaro looks to land a right hand but Christ moved out of range.
Christ swung with a counter punch to the body but it didn't connect.
Christ on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Christ cracks Santo Amaro with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Christ closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Junqueiro Santo Amaro dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Santo Amaro defending well as Christ loads up on a big left hand.
Nice shot by Santo Amaro.
Christ swings and misses with a shot to the body
and Santo Amaro counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

Christ is rocked!
Christ misses with a left hand
and Santo Amaro counters with a huge left! Christ is in big trouble! He's backing up but Santo Amaro isn't giving him chance to recover. Under a barage of punches the ref has to step in to save Christ from any more damage. A dominating finish by Santo Amaro!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:24 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Junqueiro Santo Amaro!
A very excited looking Junqueiro Santo Amaro made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.