PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gonna Whoop (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Egor Russian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Whoop
vs
Russian

178 cm
21
205 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

187 cm
25
200 lbs
0 - 5 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Knockout power

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 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Gonna Whoop!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Egor Russian!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Sergei Dronov and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The fight stays on the outside here - Russian looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Russian clinches with his opponent.

Russian escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Russian tries to clinch there but Whoop circles away.
Russian doesn't manage to clinch there - Whoop circles away.
Egor Russian seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Whoop keeps the fight on the outside.
Russian tries to grapple but his opponent circles

and Whoop counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Whoop missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Whoop 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.
Whoop sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Russian defending well though.
Whoop scoring with strikes to the body and head.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Whoop is looking for a kimura here.
Russian is not content to let Whoop control the position.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Russian can do anything to dispel that myth.

Russian is defending against the submission attempts here by Whoop.
Whoop is keen to just control but Russian is a slippery customer.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Russian is in trouble now - Whoop has advanced to mount!
Whoop lands a heavy elbow.
Russian really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Whoop. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

Whoop is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Russian is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Russian flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Whoop anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Russian and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Whoop slips an arm under Russian chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Whoop has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Whoop is squeezing on Russian like an anaconda would it's prey. Russian fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Gonna Whoop!