PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Iain Durrant (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bob Jam (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jam has chosen Transylvania as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Durrant
vs
Jam

170 cm
30
145 lbs
12 - 12 - 0

170 cm
27
142 lbs
12 - 10 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 12 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Iain Durrant!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 10 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Bob Jam!
The judges for this bout are Aleksandr Martynov, Ivan Kurochkin and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Durrant gets the takedown into side control.
Jam is trying to buck Durrant off.
Jam parries the strikes from Durrant easily there. Durrant is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Jam to escape.

Durrant thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Jam taking a bit of punishment here - Durrant scoring with strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Durrant stands up.
Durrant lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Jam throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Jam will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.

Durrant scores a takedown into full mount!
Jam's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

Durrant working for a guillotine from mount but Jam is in no mood to give up.

Durrant has control of Jam's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Jam regains control of the situation pretty easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Durrant is going oldschool here, as he tries to force Jam to tap using a forearm choke. This isn't 1993 though, so Jam shrugs it off.

Durrant is working to isolate an arm here. It's a telegraphed submission attempt but he's gone for it anyway - and he's got it! Durrant extends the arm and Jam is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Iain Durrant!