PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Fuego Salsa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tony Manero (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Manero comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Night Fever - The Bee Gees kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Fuego Salsa has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Salsa
vs
Manero

168 cm
33
172 lbs
15 - 12 - 0

165 cm
27
175 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

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 15 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Fuego Salsa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Tony Manero!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, Trevor Gratis and Gregory Folan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Salsa gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Salsa misses with a hook.
Salsa throws a jab but it's blocked by Manero.
Salsa scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Fuego Salsa seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Manero takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Manero misses with a straight right.
Manero waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Salsa.
Salsa scores with a jab. Manero acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Manero walks into a jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Horrible takedown by Salsa or perhaps it was just good defense by Manero which made him look bad.
Manero misses with a body shot.
Salsa swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Salsa bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Manero's head.
Salsa misses with a looping left.
Manero moves out of range as Salsa strikes.
Salsa uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Manero.
Salsa misses the jab.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Salsa lands a jab.
A big right from Salsa misses.
Manero misses the shot to the body.
Manero misses with a straight left.
Manero steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Salsa.
Manero throws a body punch but Salsa moves out of range.
Salsa misses with an uppercut.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Salsa scores a takedown into full mount!
Salsa throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.

Salsa with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Manero really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Salsa. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Salsa content just to control the position here.

Salsa is working for a guillotine from mount but Manero frees his head quite easily.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Salsa tries to control but Manero wriggling away.
Manero can't escape the position.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Manero has left one of his arms exposed and Salsa doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Manero screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Fuego Salsa!
During a confident post fight interview, Fuego Salsa thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.