PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alex De Paiva Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Czerwony Balonik (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters really staring eachother down here, as Czerwony Balonik enters the cage!

De Paiva Santos
vs
Balonik

189 cm
19
218 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

190 cm
19
205 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Solid chin

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Alex De Paiva Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Czerwony Balonik!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Frank Antenori and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Balonik tries a head kick but it misses.
Balonik pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Balonik misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Balonik slips a straight right by De Paiva Santos.

De Paiva Santos scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
De Paiva Santos lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Balonik takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Balonik tries to bench press De Paiva Santos off him but De Paiva Santos keeps the position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
De Paiva Santos landing strikes.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
De Paiva Santos lands a few punches from side control.
Balonik takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.

De Paiva Santos tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no De Paiva Santos has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Balonik tries to improve position but can't.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Balonik on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Balonik is trying to work for a sweep but De Paiva Santos has mounted him!
De Paiva Santos has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Balonik is in a horrible position here. De Paiva Santos smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
De Paiva Santos scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Balonik?

It looks like Czerwony Balonik has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
De Paiva Santos landing strikes from the mount and Balonik is in trouble!
De Paiva Santos loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Balonik scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from De Paiva Santos land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. De Paiva Santos stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alex De Paiva Santos!