PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marcelo Blake (ranked 4079 p4p, 3182 weight class) and August Lucas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). August Lucas has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Blake
vs
Lucas

198 cm
18
205
0 - 0 - 0

192 cm
25
205
2 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Good kicks
Cardio machine

Good takedowns
Brawler
Solid chin

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Marcelo Blake!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, August Lucas!
The judges for this bout are Jorge Garcia, Joseph Jones and Reed Andrews.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lucas fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
August Lucas seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Lucas shoots in but no luck this time.

Blake drives through and clinches with Lucas against the cage.

Blake's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

Blake moves into range and clinches up with Lucas.
A hook to the body from Blake.
Blake is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
Blake scores with a hook to the body.

Blake jumps guard and drags Lucas to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Blake looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Lucas puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Lucas looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

Lucas is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Blake is trying to control but Lucas manages to pass to mount!

Lucas is working to isolate an arm here. It's a telegraphed submission attempt but he's gone for it anyway - and he's got it! Lucas extends the arm and Blake is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). August Lucas!