PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bruno Sailo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michel Fury (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sailo
vs
Fury

188 cm
24
197 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

186 cm
25
201 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Tends to cut

Steel Penn's Exchange Extravaganza

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Bruno Sailo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Michel Fury!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Hugh Johnson and Steve Erwin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sailo takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Fury throws a sloppy head kick and Sailo moves out of range easily.
Fury misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Sailo changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Fury tries to avoid it but Sailo manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Fury to the ground. Fury escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Sailo shoots for a takedown but Fury saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Sailo fails with the takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Bruno Sailo. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Sailo shoots in and drives through. Fury sprawls well.

Sailo closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Sailo lands in his opponent's guard.
Sailo wants to control from the top but Fury keeps moving.
Sailo stops Fury from standing up.

Sailo drops back looking for a leg! Fury is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Fury manages to kick Sailo off! Sailo jumps back into Fury's guard.
Fury wants to stand but Sailo is controlling the position.
Fury looks gassed!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sailo tries to free his leg and advance position but Fury is retaining full guard.
Fury is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Sailo looking to control the position here, rather than advance.

We're going to have a standup here because Bruno Sailo wasn't active enough for the referee's liking.
Sailo fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sailo is trying hard to land a takedown here. Fury sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Fury lands with a kick to the temple. Sailo shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Fury misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Fury takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Sailo on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Fury pulls out of a head kick attempt.

Sailo scores with a takedown into Fury's guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Fury wants to stand but Sailo is controlling the position.
Sailo content to stall in guard here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sailo pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Fury is keeping the position for now.
Fury wants to stand up but Sailo is controlling him.

Sailo drops back for a leg here. A bit of a high risk move... He's looking for a kneebar by the looks of things. Now both of them are looking for submissions. Sailo seems to have locked his on tight now - Fury screams in pain and taps out furiously! It certainly was a high risk move but it's paid off for Sailo, as he picks up the win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Bruno Sailo!
During a confident post fight interview, Bruno Sailo thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.