PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Thiago de Souza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Satoshi Kajiwara (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). de Souza comes to the cage accompanied by Dry County. Satoshi Kajiwara is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

de Souza
vs
Kajiwara

183 cm
24
177 lbs
15 - 6 - 0

183 cm
20
184 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

Good takedowns
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

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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 15 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Thiago de Souza!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Satoshi Kajiwara!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Sosuke Kotani and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kajiwara shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and de Souza counters with a low kick, right behind Kajiwara 's knee.

Kajiwara gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
de Souza works on Kajiwara's body with a couple of short punches.
A left hand lands to the body for de Souza.
A nice glancing elbow lands by de Souza.

It looks like Satoshi Kajiwara has been cut.
de Souza digs a right hand underneath Kajiwara's ribcage. Kajiwara let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Kajiwara managing to block the knees to the body from de Souza.
de Souza missing with knees to the body.
A nice glancing elbow lands by de Souza.
Kajiwara takes a knee to the side of the body.
Kajiwara looks gassed!
This has been an exciting period of action!
A short body shot lands from de Souza as the two fighters clinch.
de Souza crunches a lovely knee into Kajiwara's ribcage.
de Souza crunches a lovely knee into Kajiwara's ribcage.
de Souza stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
A nice glancing elbow lands by de Souza.

That has opened up Satoshi Kajiwara's cut even more.
de Souza landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Nice body punch from de Souza.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. de Souza obliges.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. de Souza obliges.
de Souza lands with a short shot to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.

de Souza tightens his grip and picks Kajiwara up, before dumping him to the ground. Kajiwara manages to land in guard.

de Souza drops back looking for a leg! Kajiwara is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Kajiwara manages to kick de Souza off! de Souza jumps back into Kajiwara's guard.
de Souza works a leg free and moves into half guard.
de Souza moves nicely into side control.
Kajiwara taking a bit of punishment here - de Souza scoring with strikes.
Kajiwara really doesn't want to stay on the ground with de Souza. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
de Souza scores with punches from side control.
Kajiwara taking punishment in the form of punches.
Kajiwara is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

de Souza is working for what looks like an arm triangle here. Kajiwara is trying to escape and de Souza transitions quickly into an armbar! He's slapped it on tight and Kajiwara is forced to tap! Nice work there by de Souza! Very nice indeed!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Thiago de Souza!