PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cassio Venas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ciro Xagas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Venas comes to the cage accompanied by Rise Against - Black Masks And Gasoline . Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Venas
vs
Xagas

194 cm
20
235 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

192 cm
19
228 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Inexperienced

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 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Cassio Venas!
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, Ciro Xagas!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Seu Braga and Felipe Paraventi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Xagas lands a nice looking body kick.
Venas looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Xagas scores a takedown into full mount!
Xagas content just to control the position here.
Venas in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Xagas controlling from mount.

Xagas stands up from the dominant position. He obviously fancies his chances standing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.

Xagas shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Venas napping and manages to drive through into side control!
The referee asks Xagas politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Xagas prefers to stall for the moment though.
Xagas lands a few punches from side control.
Xagas controlling the position from side mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Xagas decides to take the fight back to the feet.

Venas gets caught flat footed, as Xagas shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Xagas passes into half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Xagas is looking for a kimura here.
Xagas content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ciro Xagas dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Xagas gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
A bit of stalling here from Xagas.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Venas just misses with a elbow thrown towards Xagas's brow.

Xagas jumps guard and drags Venas to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.

Xagas is looking to sinch up a triangle. Venas throws the leg off to one side though and gets in tight to Xagas's body to avoid the submission. Xagas has instead reached around Venas's neck and now has a guillotine! Oh, this is biiiig trouble! Xagas arches his back and squeezes and forces the tap from his hapless opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:38 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Ciro Xagas!