PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mike Tyson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Diego Malenko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Malenko has chosen Pé na Porta, Soco na Cara as his entrance music. Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Tyson
vs
Malenko

181 cm
18
218 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

188 cm
21
245 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter striker
Heavy handed

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Mike Tyson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Diego Malenko!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Alexandre Firmino and Luis Engracia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Malenko gets the takedown into side control.
Malenko trying to control the action but Tyson is working from the bottom.
Malenko lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Malenko tries to score with some ground and pound. Tyson controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.

Malenko tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Malenko has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Tyson is trying to improve his position.
Malenko trying to control the position but Tyson is working away.
Tyson is trying to control Malenko's posture but Malenko avoids it.
Malenko lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Tyson down.

It looks like Mike Tyson has been cut.
You can see the frustration on Tyson's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Malenko in side control, working for a kimura. He's got hold of an arm and he's torquing it... Tyson is tapping! That's the end of the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Diego Malenko!