PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Satoshi Santos (ranked 4348 p4p, 4362 weight class) and Death Before Dishonor (ranked 423 p4p, 425 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Santos
vs
Before Dishonor

191 cm
18
208
1 - 0 - 0

182 cm
18
202
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
KO power

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Powerful

Sakura Style

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Satoshi Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Death Before Dishonor!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and Percy O'Donnell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santos tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Before Dishonor manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Before Dishonor throws a body shot but no joy.
Santos scores with a shot to the body.
A big left from Before Dishonor misses.
Before Dishonor misses with a looping right.
Santos seemed to be looking to counter by closing the distance.

Santos clinches with his opponent.
Santos misses with a punch on the inside.
Santos lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Before Dishonor is trying to pull guard but Santos turns him against the cage and we stay in the clinch.
I was talking to Santos's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Santos scores with a hook to the body.
Santos has Before Dishonor pressed against the cage, preventing Before Dishonor from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Before Dishonor blocks a body shot from Santos.
Before Dishonor's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos can't find room to land a body shot as Before Dishonor controls the action.
Santos lands a body shot.
Santos lands a nice shot to the body.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Before Dishonor.
Stalling in the clinch from Santos.
Santos working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Santos stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Santos lands with a short punch from the clinch.
A body shot lands from Santos.
Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Before Dishonor being controlled against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos misses with a hook from the clinch.
Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Santos lands with a short shot to the head.
Santos throws a punch but it's blocked by Before Dishonor.
Santos misses with a punch on the inside.
Santos prevents the takedown attempt.
Santos lands a left hand.
Before Dishonor tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Santos just stands there and leans against the cage.
Satoshi Santos has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Death Before Dishonor.
Before Dishonor jumps guard but Santos turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Santos goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Before Dishonor looking to stall.
Before Dishonor's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Before Dishonor has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Before Dishonor.
Santos swings wildly with an uppercut but Before Dishonor uses good head movement to avoid it.
Santos lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Santos lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Santos lands with a left to the head.
Santos lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Before Dishonor backwards.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Santos scores with a shoulder strike.
Santos pushes Before Dishonor back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Before Dishonor is working for takedown but Santos is calmly controlling the position for now.
Before Dishonor tries to pull guard but Santos won't allow it.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Santos.
Santos swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Santos misses with some punches.
Santos gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Before Dishonor.
Before Dishonor leaning against his opponent.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Before Dishonor takes a shot to the head.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Satoshi Santos dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare each other down, ready to get back to the action.

Before Dishonor throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Before Dishonor takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Before Dishonor misses with a left hand
and Santos counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.

Santos closes the distance and clinches.
Santos can't find room to land a body shot as Before Dishonor controls the action.
Santos lands a shoulder strike.
A body shot lands from Santos.
Santos lands a right hand.
Before Dishonor jumps guard but Santos stands there with Before Dishonor around his waist. Before Dishonor gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Santos lands with a short shot to the head.
Santos cracks Before Dishonor with a nice body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Santos lands a hook to the side of the head.
Santos misses with a hook from the clinch.
Before Dishonor blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Santos.
Santos prevents the takedown attempt.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Before Dishonor.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Santos creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Santos is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Before Dishonor can do to turn this around?
Santos pushes Before Dishonor back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
A shot in the inside from Santos.
Santos working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Santos swings wildly with an uppercut but Before Dishonor uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos lands a nice uppercut.

Before Dishonor is rocked!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Santos lands a big right hand that drops Before Dishonor! The killer instinct kicks in and Santos finishes his opponent with a series of strikes from mount. A dominating finish by Santos!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:24 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Satoshi Santos!