PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Defeza Direito (ranked 3926 p4p, 4732 weight class) and Victor Diamond (ranked 0 p4p, 537 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Diamond's choice of entrance music: The master! The master!! The master!!! You're the champion. Defeza Direito has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Direito
vs
Diamond

185 cm
25
273
1 - 0 - 0

195 cm
22
260
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Defeza Direito!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Victor Diamond!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Don Winkell and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Direito walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.

Diamond shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Diamond was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Direito sneaks back into half guard.

Direito actively working from the bottom here.
Diamond not doing much here.

Direito looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

Direito looking for submissions off his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Direito looking for submissions off his back.

Diamond is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Direito has managed to free his arm - good work.

Direito looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Direito trying to control from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Diamond trying to control from Direito's half guard. Direito has other ideas though and has regained full guard.

Direito is working actively from the bottom, looking for submissions. He's escaped his hips to the side and he's going for an armbar! Diamond has his hands clasped together but Direito extends and breaks Diamond's desperate grasp, forcing a tap out due to armbar! Nice BJJ displayed there by Direito.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Defeza Direito!
A relieved looking Defeza Direito thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Victor Diamond was interviewed post fight and said 'I know that the result is not what you want but to lose is part of the game and we can't avoid it to happen once in a while. But i promise better result next time. Thanks for your supports.'.