PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Maxim Power (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Konstantin Calter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd giving both fighters a great reception on their way into the arena. That's good to see.

Power
vs
Calter

187 cm
22
198 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
18
208 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Experienced

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 St Petersburg, Maxim Power!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Konstantin Calter!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Konstantin Menshow and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Power fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Calter, pushing him back against the cage.

Calter breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Calter connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Power shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Calter but Calter pushes him off and we're back to square one.
A combination from Calter does no damage.

Power closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Power lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Calter pushes Power away and creates a bit of space to escape. He's almost out here... but no, Power gets a good hold of his legs and remains firmly in side control.
Power has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Power slows the pace down.
Power scores with punches from side control.
Power lands some shots froms side control.
Power remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Calter is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Calter looks gassed!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Power scoring with punches from side control.

Power stands up.

Power scores a takedown into full mount!
Calter is trying to stand up.
Power with the ground and pound from mount.
Power breaks from Calter's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Power has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Calter's face.
Power unloading with bombs!
Power fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Power dominating with strikes here.

Calter is rocked!

Power is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Calter is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Calter flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Power anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Calter and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Power slips an arm under Calter chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Power has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Power is squeezing on Calter like an anaconda would it's prey. Calter fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Maxim Power!