PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Gim Ruut (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cesar Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Ruut might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Lonely Boy - The Black Keys. Silva has chosen It's My Life as his entrance music. Gim Ruut has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Ruut
vs
Silva

173 cm
19
146 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

164 cm
20
139 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Prefers standup

Hellbent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Gim Ruut!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Silva!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Seu Braga and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ruut darts in trying to clinch
and Silva counters with a nice uppercut.
Silva misses with a right hand

and Ruut counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Silva's guard now.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Ruut tries to free his leg and advance position but Silva is retaining full guard.

Ruut postures up as if he's going to throw some strikes but drops back for an ankle! Silva is in big trouble! He looks ready to tap! But no, he's escaped and dives on top of Ruut, into his guard.

Ruut has an active guard here but Silva has managed to pass into half guard.

Ruut has guillotine here! It looks pretty tight! Could this be all over! No, Silva escapes and passes into side control at the same time. Nice work there by Silva!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ruut tries to improve position but can't.
Ruut manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.

Ruut looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

Ruut looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Ruut wants to improve his position but Silva is controlling well.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Ruut looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Ruut tries to roll over but Silva keeps him under control.

Ruut is working on a guillotine. He's managed to get to full guard and he's really squeezing tight! Silva is tapping! Great win for Ruut!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Gim Ruut!
Gim Ruut is the new bantamweight champion!
Post fight, Gim Ruut stared into the camera and said 'I'm thrilled to be the first BW champion. It's great to be champion and undefeated. Anyone looking to fight for it, I'm ready. Let's make some business. I'm gonna listen to some Black Keys right now, se ya at the post-fight press.'.