PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Brian Braida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alves d'Araujo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Braida's entrance music is Here I am. A fine choice. d\'Araujo is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: POWER. This should be fireworks!

Braida
vs
d'Araujo

178 cm
24
185 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

181 cm
21
183 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Decent elbows
Experienced

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

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 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Brian Braida!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Alves d'Araujo!
The judges for this bout are Radbod Blank, Daniel Blasius and Wagner Zegers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Braida tries to close the distance and clinch but d'Araujo swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
d'Araujo throws an ugly left hook that misses

and Braida counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for d'Araujo!
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
d'Araujo is looking to get to half guard.
Braida connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Braida lands a heavy elbow.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
d'Araujo regains half guard.
d'Araujo tries to roll over but Braida keeps him under control.
d'Araujo makes his way to full guard. A much better position for d'Araujo.

d'Araujo had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Braida defends it easily.

d'Araujo looking for a guillotine here but Braida defends easily.
Braida throws a big right hand that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Braida wants to stand but d'Araujo is controlling his posture from full guard.

Braida is sitting in close to d'Araujo's body. d'Araujo has gone for a guillotine from the bottom. Oh damn, that looks pretty tight! Braida is panicking - it looks like this one could be all over! Yes, Braida is tapping! That was a very nice submission by d'Araujo.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Alves d'Araujo!
A very excited looking Alves d'Araujo made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.