PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Arthur Menezes (ranked 1291 p4p, 2480 weight class) and Derek Trucks (ranked 169 p4p, 308 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Menezes
vs
Trucks

180 cm
30
190
21 - 13 - 0

183 cm
33
196
20 - 12 - 1

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World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class MT
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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 21 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Arthur Menezes!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 12 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Derek Trucks!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Trucks pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Trucks explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Menezes throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Trucks on the side of the head.
Menezes cracks Trucks with an open hand slap.
Trucks takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Trucks takes a shot right to the bread basket.

Menezes scores with a takedown into Trucks's guard.
Trucks keeping moving, preventing Menezes from controlling successfully.
Trucks looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

Trucks is looking for a triangle but Menezes pushes his legs off easily.

Trucks looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Trucks looking to hit a scissor sweep but Menezes is one step ahead there.
Trucks has momentary wrist control but Menezes slips an elbow through the middle.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Menezes wants to control from the top but Trucks keeps moving.
Menezes stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Trucks swivels though and keeps the full guard.

Trucks pushes a forearm under Menezes's chin to create some space. He's escaped his hips and pivoted quickly for an armbar! Can he extend the arm? Yes, Menezes is tapping out! Damn, that was fast!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Derek Trucks!
Our winner, Derek Trucks, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.