PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Santino Carolla (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters really staring eachother down here, as Chris Love enters the cage!

Carolla
vs
Love

195 cm
25
180 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

179 cm
25
170 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Intelligent

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight 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, Santino Carolla!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Chris Love!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Thiago Cunha and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Love takes a swing at Carolla's ribcage but misses.
Carolla lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Chris Love seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Love misses with a series of wild punches.
A decent looking cross lands there for Carolla.
Love lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Carolla circles away quickly and effectively.
Carolla keeps the fight on the outside.
Love tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch up but Carolla swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Carolla keeps the fight on the outside.
Love throws a nice looking combination but Carolla bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Carolla scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love fails with an attempt to clinch.
Love scores with a one two! Carolla had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Love throws a left and a right that both miss
enabling Carolla to counter with a crisp jab.
Love closes the distance looking to clinch
and Carolla counters with a left to the body.
Love swings widly with a right hand
letting Carolla counter with a right hand.
Carolla swats away the attempt to clinch by Love.
Carolla's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Carolla duly obliges.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Love misses with a right hand
and Carolla makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Nice shot by Carolla.
Carolla is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Carolla lands a really nice looking cross but Love seems unphased.
Love showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Carolla.
Some wild striking there from Carolla.
Carolla with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Love looks gassed!
Carolla misses with a hook
and Love counters with a series of strikes. Carolla will be more careful next time no doubt.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Carolla lands a jab to the nose.
Carolla throws out a loose jab but Love uses good head movement to avoid it.
Love moves in looking to clinch but Carolla pushes him off.
Carolla uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Love.
Carolla takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Carolla waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Love.

Love pushes Carolla up against the cage in a clinch.
Love looking to stall.
Love misses with the head strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Carolla blocks a punch to the side of the head.

Carolla jumps guard and drags Love to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Carolla is trying to keep Love in close.
Love postures up in Carolla's guard and throws a big left but Carolla blocks it.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Carolla tries to land a sweep but no joy.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Santino Carolla dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Carolla throws a nice looking combination but Love bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Love misses with a series of wild punches.
Love throws a lazy right hand but Carolla sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.

Love takes the fight into the clinch.
Love will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Carolla up against the cage.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Love.
Love stalls.

Love's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Carolla counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Love moves in looking to clinch but Carolla pushes him off.
Love throws a series of punches but Carolla avoids them all with ease.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch but Carolla swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Love throws a left and a right that both miss
and Carolla counters with a left and a right that stings Love.
Carolla fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Carolla throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
letting Love counter with a right hand.

Love forces Carolla back against the cage and clinches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Carolla escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Carolla misses with an uppercut. Love saw that one coming.
Carolla cracks Love with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Santino Carolla is winning the standup battle so far.
Love misses with a few strikes there.
Carolla misses with a double jab
and Love counters with a left and a right that stings Carolla.
Love is breathing heavily.
Carolla goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch but Carolla swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Love tries to clinch up.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Carolla misses with an uppercut.
Love lands a jab to Carolla's midsection.
Carolla tests Love's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Carolla slips a jab and a cross from Love.
A big right from Carolla misses.
Carolla thows a left - swing and a miss!
Carolla misses with a body punch
letting Love counter with a right hand.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A big right from Love misses.
Carolla takes a swing at Love's ribcage but misses.
Love keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Love lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Love throws a left and a right that both miss
and Carolla counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Love misses with a series of wild punches.
Love swinging wildly here.
Love misses with a wild combination.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Santino Carolla will probably get the nod.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action. Let's get this one finished - here comes the final round!

Love moves in looking to clinch but Carolla pushes him off.
Love gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Carolla.
Love with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Carolla to score with a decent uppercut.
Love tries to clinch up but Carolla circles away and keeps his distance.
Love tries to clinch but Carolla moves out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sloppy strikes from Love. Those never looked like landing.
Carolla avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Love moves in looking to clinch but Carolla pushes him off.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love with a nice cross.

Love moves into the clinch.
A short body shot lands from Love as the two fighters clinch.
Carolla is trying to break the clinch but Love is controlling him.
Carolla looking to slow down the pace here.
Carolla tries for a takedown but Love manages to get underhooks.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
A left hand lands to the body for Love.

Love breaks the clinch.
Carolla throws a series of punches but Love avoids them all with ease.
Carolla throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Love cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Carolla takes a shot to the body in his stride.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love fails in his attempt to clinch.
Santino Carolla is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Love throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Carolla sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Love throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Love pushes forward with a 1-2 combination that forces Carolla back to the cage. Love follows up with a solid lead hook to the liver.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Love scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Love throws a right hand that Carolla ducks under and follows up with a left that Carolla also avoids with ease.
Love throws a jab when Carolla was well out of range.
The fighters circling - Love throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Love swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love scores with a crisp jab that stopped Carolla in his tracks.
We are yet to see a takedown attempt from Love in the fight. On paper you would think he is the more dominant ground fighter so let's see if these unusual tactics pay off.
Carolla uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Love.
Love throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Carolla throws an off balance right hand
enabling Love to counter with a crisp jab.
Carolla throws a right hand that misses
and Carolla takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Love throws a body punch but Carolla moves out of range.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch up but Carolla swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Love wants to clinch
and Carolla counters with a nice uppercut.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love is looking to clinch.
Love comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Love swings away with a body shot that misses
and Carolla counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Carolla is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Good exchange - Carolla coming out on top.
Love doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Carolla misses with a jab to the body

and Love counters by clinching up.
Chris Love has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Carolla tries to pull guard but Love holds him up against the cage and eventually Carolla drops back down to his feet.

And that's the end of the fight!
Chris Love comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Carolla has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Alexandre Firmino scores the fight 29:28
Judge Thiago Cunha scores the fight 29:28
Judge Mauricio Rocha scores the fight 29:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Santino Carolla!