PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between hovannes adibekyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Senior Tres Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). adibekyan comes to the cage accompanied by 50 cent. Tres Santos has chosen Killing in the name of - Rage Against the Machine as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

adibekyan
vs
Tres Santos

195 cm
21
245 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

193 cm
21
277 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Counter striker
Intelligent

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Tends to cut

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, hovannes adibekyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Senior Tres Santos!
The judges for this bout are Cecil Peabody, Alan Glass and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
adibekyan swats away the attempt to clinch by Tres Santos.
adibekyan throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Tres Santos's waist but Tres Santos gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing adibekyan off to one side.
adibekyan keeps the fight on the outside.
adibekyan throws a nice outside leg kick.
Tres Santos tries to clinch up but adibekyan circles away and keeps his distance.
Tres Santos throws a head kick that misses.
Tres Santos fails with an attempt to clinch.
Tres Santos scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!

It looks like hovannes adibekyan has been cut.
adibekyan takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Tres Santos fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with adibekyan, pushing him back against the cage.

Tres Santos escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
adibekyan closes the distance looking to clinch

and Tres Santos decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in adibekyan's guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Tres Santos decides he's had enough of playing guard and decides to stand. Come on adibekyan, up you get!
adibekyan is breathing heavily.

Tres Santos clinches up with adibekyan and pushes him back against the cage.
adibekyan trying to stall but Tres Santos improves his position.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.

Tres Santos has double underhooks and is working for a body lock takedown. He's got it. The fighters land in half guard but adibekyan regains guard immediately.
Tres Santos in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
adibekyan preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Tres Santos wants to control from the top but adibekyan keeps moving.
Tres Santos postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tres Santos wants to control from the top but adibekyan keeps moving.

Tres Santos drops back looking for a leg! adibekyan is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and adibekyan manages to kick Tres Santos off! Tres Santos jumps back into adibekyan's guard.
adibekyan keeping full guard, as Tres Santos tries to pass.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tres Santos connects with a couple of short punches.
Tres Santos passes into half guard.
Tres Santos wants to take a breather but adibekyan is having none of it.
Tres Santos tries to pass the half guard into mount. adibekyan knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Tres Santos throwing shots but adibekyan is blocking nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.

Tres Santos stands up and beckons adibekyan to join him on the feet.
Tres Santos closes the distance looking to clinch
and adibekyan counters with a good low kick that Tres Santos was not able to check.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Tres Santos.
Tres Santos remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
adibekyan on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Senior Tres Santos dominated that round.
The cut man is working on hovannes adibekyan's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Tres Santos fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. adibekyan sprawls well initially but Tres Santos persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Tres Santos missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Tres Santos trying to control from half guard but adibekyan is working away.
adibekyan is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Tres Santos scores with a couple of nice shots.
Tres Santos stalling.
Tres Santos working adibekyan over with strikes.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tres Santos scoring with strikes to the body and head.
adibekyan blocking the ground and pound attempt from Tres Santos.
Tres Santos thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed adibekyan's head.
Tres Santos missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Tres Santos stalling.
adibekyan taking some punishment here, with Tres Santos in his half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
adibekyan keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Tres Santos not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Tres Santos throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
adibekyan on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
adibekyan avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Tres Santos.
Tres Santos winds up and cracks adibekyan with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Tres Santos throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tres Santos is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Tres Santos is taking a breather. adibekyan says something to him but it's hard to make out. Perhaps he's telling him to get on with it and actually do something.
Tres Santos not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Tres Santos thows a huge punch but adibekyan dodges it nicely.
Tres Santos lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
adibekyan has hold of Tres Santos's hands but Tres Santos slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tres Santos is pressing down on adibekyan's thigh, looking to free his foot. adibekyan is holding on for now.
Tres Santos has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Tres Santos is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
adibekyan on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Nice strikes from Tres Santos there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Senior Tres Santos showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on hovannes adibekyan's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.

adibekyan avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Tres Santos shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Tres Santos showed some decent athleticism there.
Tres Santos lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Tres Santos is nestled in close to adibekyan, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

Tres Santos decides he's had enough of the ground and stands up.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
adibekyan keeps the fight on the outside.
Tres Santos misses with a head kick.

Tres Santos clinches.
adibekyan tries to pull guard but Tres Santos holds him up against the cage and eventually adibekyan drops back down to his feet.
Tres Santos holding his opponent close, against the cage.

Tres Santos pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

adibekyan scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Tres Santos missing with punches from the bottom.
Tres Santos regains full guard. Nicely done.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
adibekyan stopping the sweep attempt from Tres Santos.
Tres Santos working a defensive guard here.

Tres Santos had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. adibekyan is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Tres Santos Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take adibekyan's back instead.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
adibekyan tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!
Tres Santos connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Tres Santos putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Tres Santos tries to control but adibekyan wriggling away.
Tres Santos raining down shots from the mount!
Senior Tres Santos is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tres Santos sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Tres Santos working adibekyan over with strikes here.
adibekyan is in a horrible position here. Tres Santos smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Tres Santos landing shots from mount.

And that's the end of the fight!
Senior Tres Santos comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Tres Santos has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Cecil Peabody scores the fight 25:30
Judge Alan Glass scores the fight 25:30
Judge Frank Dennis scores the fight 26:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Senior Tres Santos!