PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Vlad Tapisht (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Danny Mera (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tapisht comes to the cage accompanied by Evanescence: Bring Me To Life. Mera has chosen The Automatic - Monster as his entrance music. Danny Mera has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Tapisht
vs
Mera

177 cm
22
163 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

170 cm
24
160 lbs
8 - 6 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter striker
KO power

Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Vlad Tapisht!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Danny Mera!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Dmitry Maklakov and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tapisht misses with a takedown
and Tapisht takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Mera tries to clinch up but Tapisht circles away and keeps his distance.

Mera shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Mera with the ground and pound from mount.
Mera lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Tapisht keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Mera with the ground and pound from mount.

Tapisht is rocked!
Mera postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Tapisht looks a forlorn figure.
Oh Tapisht is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Mera connects with a bit shot that sees Tapisht covering up! More strikes from Mera and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Mera is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Danny Mera!