PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Uriah Faber (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Edipo Abner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Abner has chosen Gona Fly Now as his entrance music. Uriah Faber has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Faber
vs
Abner

195 cm
27
215 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

177 cm
27
205 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Very quick

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Powerful

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 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Uriah Faber!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Edipo Abner!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Santiago Holmes and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Faber fails with a takedown attempt.
Abner lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Faber circles away quickly and effectively.

Faber shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Abner really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Faber. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Faber passes Abner's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Faber works his way into full mount!
Faber wants to control the pace but Abner is squirming around nicely.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Faber has hold of an arm here, looking to extend it. He's committed to the armbar attempt here! Will he get it?! Yes! Abner is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Uriah Faber!
Uriah Faber took his opportunity to call for a title shot in his post fight interview.
Edipo Abner spoke after the fight, saying 'Fool got lucky!'.