PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Landry Saracen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Zamorano (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Saracen comes into the arena with Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive blaring out of the sound system. Zamorano has chosen The Cat Empire - Lost Song as his entrance music. This should be a great matchup!

Saracen
vs
Zamorano

167 cm
26
148 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

181 cm
22
145 lbs
8 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Landry Saracen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Mike Zamorano!
The judges for this bout are Russell Pearce, David Schapiro and Franklyn Lucas.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Zamorano looks to land a right hand but Saracen moved out of range.
Saracen fails to land the takedown.
Zamorano tries to clinch up but Saracen circles away and keeps his distance.
Saracen lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Saracen closes the distance and clinches up with Zamorano, looking for a takedown. Saracen pushes Zamorano against the cage but Zamorano circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.

Saracen has closed the distance and engaged Zamorano in a clinch.
Saracen tries to stall but Zamorano uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
A nice right hand lands inside from Zamorano.
Zamorano is working Saracen over against the cage.

Saracen manages to break the clinch.
A slow jab from Saracen misses its intended target.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A head kick misses from Zamorano.
Horrible takedown by Saracen or perhaps it was just good defense by Zamorano which made him look bad.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Landry Saracen. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Zamorano thows a body shot but no joy.

Zamorano rushes Saracen and presses him up against the cage.
Saracen wants to break free but Zamorano has control.
Saracen is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Zamorano gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Zamorano misses with a punch on the inside.
Saracen looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Zamorano scores with a shoulder strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Saracen looking for a takedown.
Saracen looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Saracen avoids the elbow strike from Zamorano, against the cage.
Saracen blocking some punches.
Zamorano prevents a takedown attempt there.
Saracen wants a takedown but no success here.
Zamorano lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Saracen jumps guard but Zamorano turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Saracen has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Zamorano avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
Saracen has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Zamorano avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
Saracen takes an elbow to the forehead.
Zamorano comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Zamorano is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Saracen jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Zamorano walks away with a smile on his face. Saracen gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
A decent looking body kick lands there for Zamorano.
Zamorano with a jab.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Saracen gets the takedown into side control.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Zamorano controls the position for a moment.
Zamorano manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Saracen is looking for a sweep. Zamorano is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Zamorano seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.

The ref stands the fighters back up, due to lack of action by Mike Zamorano.
Saracen shoots in for a double leg but Zamorano sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Mike Zamorano will probably get the nod.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Nice sprawl there from Zamorano as Saracen shoots in.
Saracen throws a head kick that misses
and Zamorano counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Saracen lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Zamorano circles away quickly and effectively.
Zamorano scores with a shot to the body.
Saracen shoots and misses
letting Zamorano counter with a right hand.

Saracen is rocked!
Saracen moves in looking to clinch but Zamorano pushes him off.
Oh Saracen is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Saracen moves out of range of the strikes.
Zamorano is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Zamorano misses with a series of wild punches.
Saracen seems to have got his legs back now.
Zamorano fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Saracen shoots in for a takedown but Zamorano shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Landry Saracen. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Zamorano clinches.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Zamorano is pressed up against the cage. Saracen has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Zamorano down to the mat. Zamorano avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zamorano throws a series of punches but Saracen moves out of range.
Zamorano works Saracen's body with a nice hook.

Zamorano clinches up against the cage.
Zamorano lands a body shot in the clinch.
Zamorano looking to throw knees to the head but Saracen is blocking nicely.

Saracen works for the underhooks and manages to get a trip takedown into guard.
Saracen won't allow Zamorano to sweep him here.

Zamorano is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Saracen is aware though and is defending well.
Zamorano looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Zamorano controls Saracen momentarily but Saracen frees himself.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Zamorano looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Saracen passes into half guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Saracen is trying to work for a kimura but Zamorano is defending well.
Zamorano gets back to full guard.
Zamorano wants to sweep here but Saracen controlling him for the moment.
Saracen wants to stand and escape but instead Zamorano has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Zamorano is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zamorano preventing the sweep.
Zamorano missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

Zamorano gets to his feet and steps away from his opponent.

Saracen shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.

Saracen has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Zamorano defend it? Saracen steps over the head and cranks it - Zamorano is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Saracen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:37 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Landry Saracen!
Landry Saracen was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.