PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jason Barking (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bruno de Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Jason Barking has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Barking
vs
de Santos

197 cm
21
248 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

206 cm
21
274 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

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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 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jason Barking!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Bruno de Santos!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Thiago Cunha and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
de Santos shoots for a takedown but Barking saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.

de Santos closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Barking to the mat! Barking manages to get full guard.
Barking will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Barking utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
de Santos postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
de Santos postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.

Barking throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Barking is trying to keep de Santos in close.
de Santos postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

Barking working for a triangle but de Santos defends it easily.

Barking is looking for a triangle but de Santos pushes his legs off easily.

Barking working for a triangle but de Santos defends it easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
de Santos is working Barking over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Barking trying to control the position.
de Santos working some strikes from top position.
Barking is breathing heavily.
Barking keeping full guard, as de Santos tries to pass.
de Santos landing with the ground and pound.
de Santos throwing strikes from guard but Barking blocks nicely.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Barking controls de Santos momentarily but de Santos frees himself.
de Santos lands a couple of decent looking shots.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
de Santos scoring with punches to the head and body.
de Santos working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Barking's head.
de Santos passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Barking misses with a strike from the bottom.

de Santos tries for a kimura but Barking is defending well.
Barking sneaks back into half guard.
de Santos is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Barking is defending against the submission attempts here by de Santos.
This has been an exciting period of action!
de Santos landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Barking has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. de Santos is working away from the top position though.

de Santos is working for a submission of some sort.

Barking looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

de Santos is looking for a kimura here.

Barking looking for submissions off his back.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
de Santos is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
de Santos lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Barking is looking for a sweep. de Santos is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Barking looking for submissions off his back.

de Santos is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bruno de Santos dominated that round.
That's time! Barking's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

de Santos drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
de Santos working the ground and pound from side control.

de Santos tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no de Santos has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
de Santos misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Barking tries to improve position but can't.
de Santos working the body and head with strikes.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

de Santos tries for a kimura but Barking is defending well.
Barking manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!

That's one minute gone in the round.
de Santos wants to get back to full guard.
Barking seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but de Santos does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Barking prevents de Santos from improving his position.
Barking wants to lay and pray for a moment but de Santos keeps working.
de Santos flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Barking is looking to take a break and control but de Santos is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.

de Santos shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. de Santos showed some decent athleticism there.
Barking trying to control here.

Barking actively working from the bottom here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Barking on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.

de Santos is trying to work for a kimura but Barking is defending well.
de Santos looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Barking with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
de Santos working Barking over with strikes.
Barking trying to hold on to de Santos's head to control him but de Santos postures up.

de Santos is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Barking defends it well.
Barking is trying to maintain the position but de Santos is very close to passing his half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
de Santos frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
de Santos has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Barking's face.
Barking has given up his back here.
de Santos lands punches and elbows.
Barking is trying to break free.
de Santos is looking to finish with some ground and pound!

de Santos is working really hard to secure the rear naked choke. Barking defends successfully for a significant amount of time. Both fighters are looking very determined.
Barking trying to control the position but de Santos manages to sink in the hooks.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
de Santos is throwing punches to the body, looking to soften Barking up.

de Santos sinks in the hooks and is looking for the choke. He's got it! Barking taps out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Bruno de Santos!