PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Alves d'Araujo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mark Bounty (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

d'Araujo
vs
Bounty

181 cm
21
183 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

185 cm
21
194 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
World class MT
Good gas tank

PRIME DESIGNS

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Alves d'Araujo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Mark Bounty!
The judges for this bout are Nard Betker, Radbod Blank and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bounty looks to land a left hand but d'Araujo moved out of range nicely.
Left hook, right uppercut from Bounty.
Bounty wants to land a leg kick but d'Araujo is out of range.

Bounty has taken the fight to the clinch.
Bounty looks to throw an elbow but misses.
d'Araujo takes an elbow to the forehead.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Nice elbow from Bounty.
Bounty scores with a knee to the head.
d'Araujo lands a good knee to the midsection. Bounty won't want to take too many of those.
Bounty throws an elbow that misses.
d'Araujo wants to stall.
Bounty avoiding damage as d'Araujo throws knees to the body.
d'Araujo stalling against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
d'Araujo managing to block the knees to the body from Bounty.

d'Araujo pulls guard effortlessly.

d'Araujo throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Bounty has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of d'Araujo is proving hard to escape from.
d'Araujo has his hands on Bounty's head, controlling the position.

Bounty stands up over his opponent, looking to dive in with a big punch. Here he comes, superman style! Oh, the punch misses and d'Araujo has got him in a triangle choke for good measure! Oh no! Bounty manages to get his head free but now d'Araujo has transitioned to an armbar! Bounty grimaces and is forced to tap! Beautiful Jiu Jitsu from d'Araujo! I'd be surprised if that didn't end up as submission of the night!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Alves d'Araujo!
During a confident post fight interview, Alves d'Araujo thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.