PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Balaram Kalyan (ranked 4452 p4p, 5519 weight class) and Rickson Caceres (ranked 0 p4p, 530 weight class). I don't know about you partner, but I'm pumped for this one!

Kalyan
vs
Caceres

187 cm
18
160
0 - 0 - 0

180 cm
25
157
0 - 1 - 0

Good takedowns
Dangerous knees
Self confident

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Intelligent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Balaram Kalyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Rickson Caceres!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Yves DeLean and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Caceres shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Caceres was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Kalyan is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Caceres in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Kalyan gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Kalyan wants to control but Caceres is having none of it.
Caceres controlling the position easily from mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Caceres postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Kalyan looks a forlorn figure.
Kalyan knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Caceres on the ground.

Caceres has isolated one of Kalyan's arms. Kalyan looking to fight him off but Caceres twists into an armbar. It's tight... Will he tap?? YES, he's tapped! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Rickson Caceres!