PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marcelo Saldana (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tyresse Miller (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Saldana
vs
Miller

190 cm
23
215 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

180 cm
23
185 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Tends to cut

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Marcelo Saldana!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tyresse Miller!
The judges for this bout are Jorge Garcia, Alyssa Summers and Dean Styles.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Miller with a poor takedown

and Saldana counters with a head kick that drops Miller!
Saldana has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
The referee claps his hands together and tells the fighters to work.
Miller bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Saldana's guard.
Miller trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.

Miller drops back for a leg here. A bit of a high risk move... He's looking for a kneebar by the looks of things. Now both of them are looking for submissions. Miller seems to have locked his on tight now - Saldana screams in pain and taps out furiously! It certainly was a high risk move but it's paid off for Miller, as he picks up the win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Tyresse Miller!
After the fight, Tyresse Miller was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.