PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vedin Sirovica (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chester Taylor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sirovica comes to the cage accompanied by last mohacian. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sirovica
vs
Taylor

191 cm
29
212 lbs
14 - 16 - 0

193 cm
25
215 lbs
9 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Experienced

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Determined

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 14 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Vedin Sirovica!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 12 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Chester Taylor!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Vladimir Khabensky and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sirovica displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Taylor.
Sirovica fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.

Sirovica clinches up against the cage.

Sirovica breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Taylor tries to clinch but Sirovica moves out of range.
Taylor shoots in looking for a takedown. Sirovica tries to sprawl out of it but Taylor keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Sirovica manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Sirovica wants to clinch up but Taylor keeps it at a distance.
Taylor throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Sirovica's waist but Sirovica gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Taylor off to one side.
Vedin Sirovica has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Chester Taylor.
Taylor fails with the takedown.
Taylor on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Sirovica lands a jab to the head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Sirovica circles away from the clinch attempt.
Taylor tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Taylor closes the distance and clinches up with Sirovica, looking for a takedown. Taylor pushes Sirovica against the cage but Sirovica circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Taylor shoots in for a takedown but Sirovica shows good takedown defense.
Taylor looks gassed!

Taylor moves into the clinch successfully.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Sirovica pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Sirovica shoots in and bounces Taylor off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
Taylor keeping full guard, as Sirovica tries to pass.
Sirovica is working Taylor over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.

Taylor is working an open guard so Sirovica takes the opportunity to get back to his feet.

Sirovica is looking for a takedown here. He's shot in and has managed to get it, finishing up in Taylor's half guard.
Sirovica moves into full mount! Taylor won't be happy about that!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sirovica with good strikes from the mount here!
Sirovica pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Taylor can do anything to dispel that myth.

Sirovica is working close to his opponent, looking to work a submission by the looks of things. Oh, he's managed to get a guillotine from mount as his opponent reached up! That looks tiiiiight! Will he tap? YES, he's tapped! Impressive submission by Sirovica!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:02 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Vedin Sirovica!