PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Khris Murphey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Raminho Dos Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Murphey kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Back in Black. Dos Santos has chosen AIRBOURNE - Running Wild as his entrance music. Raminho Dos Santos has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Murphey
vs
Dos Santos

190 cm
22
224 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

194 cm
22
280 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

HGH Nutrients
DRAGON MMA Gear

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Khris Murphey!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Raminho Dos Santos!
The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Paulo Santos and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Murphey throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Dos Santos throws a right hand that Murphey ducks under and follows up with a left that Murphey also avoids with ease.
Dos Santos swats away the attempt to clinch by Murphey.
Murphey misses with a kick to the body.
Dos Santos dodges the punch combination from Murphey.
Dos Santos looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Murphey throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Dos Santos throws a nice looking combination but Murphey bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Dos Santos throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
A combination from Dos Santos does no damage.

Murphey shoots in with a lovely double leg takedown. Dos Santos manages to land in full guard to minimise the damage.
Dos Santos keeping moving, preventing Murphey from controlling successfully.
Dos Santos preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Murphey slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Dos Santos really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Murphey. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Murphey lands some shots froms side control.
Dos Santos is looking for a sweep.
Dos Santos is letting Murphey control him for a moment.

Murphey tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Murphey has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Murphey trying to control the position but Dos Santos is working away.
Dos Santos wants to control but Murphey postures up.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Murphey is looking to take a break and control but Dos Santos is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Dos Santos managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Murphey.
Murphey has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Murphey working the ground and pound effectively.
Murphey controlling his opponent.
Dos Santos flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Murphey tries to control but Dos Santos wriggling away.
Murphey postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Dos Santos looks a forlorn figure.
Murphey trying to control but Dos Santos is having none of it.
Murphey blocks Dos Santos's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Dos Santos working to try and regain half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Murphey scoring with strikes but Dos Santos is staying in there.
Murphey raining down shots from the mount!
Murphey can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Dos Santos is looking to escape.
Dos Santos's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
Murphey has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Dos Santos's face.
Murphey trying to control but he's not successful this time.

Dos Santos defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Murphey.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Khris Murphey dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Dos Santos checks a leg kick nicely.
Dos Santos misses with a double jab.
Dos Santos throws a right hand that Murphey ducks under and follows up with a left that Murphey also avoids with ease.
Murphey is looking to clinch but Dos Santos is avoiding it.
Murphey looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Dos Santos keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Murphey fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Khris Murphey. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Dos Santos goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

It looks like Khris Murphey has been cut.
Dos Santos swats away the attempt to clinch by Murphey.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Dos Santos misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Dos Santos fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Dos Santos throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Murphey.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Some bone on bone action there as Dos Santos checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Murphey has his takedown stuffed

and Dos Santos counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Dos Santos wants to stand but Murphey is controlling his posture from full guard.
Murphey keeping full guard, as Dos Santos tries to pass.
Dos Santos would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Murphey looking for a sweep. Not yet Murphey, not yet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos wants to get up but he can't break Murphey's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.
Murphey is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Dos Santos is looking to improve his position.
Dos Santos trying to control from the bottom.

Murphey is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Dos Santos sees it coming and defends easily.

Murphey is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Dos Santos defends it well.
Dos Santos is doing well to avoid being mounted. He's controlling the position at the moment.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos tries to kick Murphey off but Murphey keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Murphey blocks the strikes from Dos Santos.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Murphey fails with the takedown.
Dos Santos moves away from the strike by Murphey.
Dos Santos throws a right and a left that Murphey avoids nicely.
Murphey shoots in but no luck this time.

Dos Santos shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Murphey's guard.
Dos Santos wants to stand but Murphey has a closed guard, so he can't escape.
Khris Murphey overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Murphey utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Dos Santos trying to control the position from guard on top but Murphey is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Dos Santos wanted to stand there but Murphey had control of the position.
Dos Santos won't allow Murphey to sweep him here.
Dos Santos would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Dos Santos postures up in Murphey's guard and throws a big left but Murphey blocks it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Raminho Dos Santos showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Khris Murphey's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. This is the final round!

Dos Santos throws a series of punches but Murphey moves out of range.

Dos Santos shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Dos Santos showed some decent athleticism there.
Dos Santos should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Dos Santos seems to have lost interest with the ground game and is thinking about standing back up.
Dos Santos is trying to control the action in half guard but Murphey is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Dos Santos winds up and cracks Murphey with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Dos Santos wants to stand up but Murphey has a hold of him and won't allow it.
Murphey trying to hold on to Dos Santos's head to control him but Dos Santos postures up.
Dos Santos not landing any meaningful shots this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dos Santos prevents Murphey from standing back up.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Dos Santos missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Murphey tries to roll over but Dos Santos keeps him under control.
Dos Santos lands strikes from half guard.
Well, if Dos Santos is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Dos Santos is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Dos Santos winds up and cracks Murphey with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Dos Santos seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Dos Santos content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Ground and pound from Dos Santos.
Murphey trying to control here.
Dos Santos looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Dos Santos 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.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Dos Santos prevents Murphey from improving his position.
Dos Santos drops an elbow to the side of Murphey's head.
Dos Santos not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Murphey is refusing to be controlled, as Dos Santos sits in half guard.
Dos Santos thows a huge punch but Murphey dodges it nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Dos Santos throwing shots but Murphey is blocking nicely.
Murphey is not content to let Dos Santos control the position.
Dos Santos sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Murphey defending well though.
Dos Santos is nestled in close to Murphey, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Murphey on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Dos Santos drops an elbow to the side of Murphey's head.
Dos Santos drops an elbow to the side of Murphey's head.
Dos Santos landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Dos Santos content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.

And that's the end of the fight!
Raminho Dos Santos comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Dos Santos has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Luis Engracia scores the fight 27:29
Judge Paulo Santos scores the fight 27:28
Judge Leandro Rodrigues scores the fight 27:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Raminho Dos Santos!