PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Russel Paulman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and George Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Paulman comes to the cage accompanied by fight music . Johnson has chosen Through the Fire Flames- Dragonforce as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Paulman
vs
Johnson

190 cm
30
185 lbs
10 - 5 - 0

175 cm
28
172 lbs
10 - 11 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

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 10 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Russel Paulman !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, George Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Paulo Santos and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
No luck with that takedown attempt from Paulman .

Johnson shoots in and gets a takedown into Paulman 's guard.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.

Johnson is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Paulman has momentary wrist control but Johnson slips an elbow through the middle.

Paulman is working actively from the bottom, looking for submissions. He's escaped his hips to the side and he's going for an armbar! Johnson has his hands clasped together but Paulman extends an breaks Johnson's desperate grasp, forcing a tap out due to armbar! Nice BJJ displayed there by Paulman .

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Russel Paulman !