PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Danilo Oliveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Oliveira might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Iron Man. Daniel Love is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Oliveira
vs
Love

185 cm
20
185 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

179 cm
19
187 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Danilo Oliveira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Love!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Matheus Silva and Emerson Jorge.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Love wants to clinch.
A thudding body kick lands there by Oliveira!

Love scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.

Love stands up.

Oliveira closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Oliveira blocks the strikes from Love.
Oliveira scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Love tries to get to full guard but Oliveira has control of the leg.

Oliveira is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Love doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Oliveira.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Love is looking to regain full guard. He's left an arm up in the air though and Oliveira has latched onto it... Big trouble! Oliveira pivots for an armbar - it's in tight and it Love is tapping in no time flat! Great counter grappling there from Oliveira!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Danilo Oliveira!