PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Omobonga Feraciuss (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jhonatan Borge (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jhonatan Borge has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Feraciuss
vs
Borge

186 cm
18
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
25
205 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Omobonga Feraciuss!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jhonatan Borge!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Paulo Santos and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Feraciuss misses with a takedown
and Borge counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Feraciuss tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Feraciuss shoots in for a takedown but Borge shows good takedown defense.
Feraciuss circles away from the clinch attempt.
Borge dives in and grabs Feraciuss's left leg, looking for a takedown. Feraciuss pushes down on Borge's head and hops out.
Borge misses with a takedown attempt - Feraciuss sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Borge stuffs the takedown attempt from Feraciuss. Feraciuss gets slowly back to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Omobonga Feraciuss. That's going to take a lot out of him.
A head kick misses from Feraciuss.

Feraciuss gets a clinch.
Feraciuss tries to pull guard but Borge holds him up against the cage and eventually Feraciuss drops back down to his feet.
Borge is trying to pull guard but Feraciuss turns him against the cage and we stay in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Borge goes for a takedown attempt but Feraciuss pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.

Borge closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Feraciuss did well to prevent Borge getting side control.
Nice strikes from Borge there.
Borge wants to control but Feraciuss is keeping him busy.
Borge throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Feraciuss is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Borge escapes and gets back to his feet.
Borge tries to clinch up but Feraciuss circles away and keeps his distance.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Feraciuss leaves Borge with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.

Borge shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Borge showed some decent athleticism there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Feraciuss throws a sloppy strike from the bottom. He's now off balance and Borge manages to pass to side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Borge is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
Borge has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Borge working away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Feraciuss tries to slip a leg under to move to half guard but Borge presses down on the leg and jumps into full mount!

Feraciuss has left one of his arms exposed and Borge doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Feraciuss screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Jhonatan Borge!