PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Sarkis Terteryan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nyquil Salazar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Terteryan's entrance music is Smashing Pumpkins-Bullet With Butterfly Wings. A fine choice. Salazar has chosen Enter Sandman as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Sarkis Terteryan had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 187.7lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. This should be a great matchup!

Terteryan
vs
Salazar

178 cm
27
206 lbs
8 - 12 - 0

183 cm
24
195 lbs
11 - 10 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Sarkis Terteryan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 10 - 0, fighting out of New York, Nyquil Salazar!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Timothy Bukovac and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Salazar darts in and clinches Terteryan up against the cage.
Salazar working Terteryan over with knees to the body.
Salazar is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Terteryan is defending well for now.
Salazar tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

Salazar jumps guard.
Salazar lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Terteryan!
Salazar landing strikes, looking to finish!
Salazar scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Terteryan?
Salazar lands a big shot there that rocks Terteryan but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Terteryan can't escape the position.
The referee warns Terteryan that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Salazar landing strikes, looking to finish!
Terteryan can't escape the position.
Salazar with the ground and pound from mount.
Terteryan knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Salazar on the ground.
Salazar dominating with strikes here.

Terteryan is rocked!
Terteryan tries to reverse the position but Salazar maintains control.
Oh Terteryan is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Terteryan is breathing heavily.
Salazar loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Terteryan scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Salazar land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Salazar stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:05 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nyquil Salazar!