PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ilja Vasuta (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Felipe Teixeira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vasuta comes to the cage accompanied by E.S. Posthumus Unstoppable . Teixeira is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Avicii - Levels. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Vasuta
vs
Teixeira

188 cm
20
179 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

180 cm
20
175 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

Good takedowns
Good kicks
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Tends to cut

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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ilja Vasuta!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Felipe Teixeira!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Matheus Silva and Seu Braga.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Teixeira looks for a takedown but Vasuta sprawls well.
Teixeira moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.

Teixeira looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Vasuta!
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.
Teixeira sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Teixeira unloads with some shots from mount but Vasuta bucks and avoids them well.
Vasuta wants to hold on but Teixeira pushes him away.
Teixeira working the ground and pound effectively.
Teixeira throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Vasuta is really trying hard to get back to his feet.

Vasuta bucks Teixeira off and manages to get back to his feet!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Teixeira shoots for a takedown but Vasuta saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Teixeira shoots in but no luck this time.
Ilja Vasuta has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Felipe Teixeira.
Vasuta explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Teixeira looks gassed!
Teixeira fails with a takedown attempt.
Teixeira takes a shot right to the bread basket.

Vasuta clinches.

Vasuta lands a nice trip takedown into half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Teixeira keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

Vasuta is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! Teixeira is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Ilja Vasuta!
Ilja Vasuta looked relieved post fight as he said the following; 'Felipe is a wonderful wrestler. He is NCAA Division I wrestler. Today I used all my skills to defeat him. Thanks for supporting me. Good luck.'.