PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Laldama Animai (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alexander Kimbley (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Animai
vs
Kimbley

194 cm
21
280 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

200 cm
22
270 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Laldama Animai!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Alexander Kimbley!
The judges for this bout are Viktor Lagutenko, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kimbley is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Kimbley will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

Animai looking to score a takedown here. Kimbley is defending well but Animai drives through and ends up in Kimbley's guard.
Animai is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Kimbley working a defensive guard here.
Kimbley looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Animai wants to control from the top but Kimbley keeps moving.
Animai postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Animai throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Animai with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Animai working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Animai trying to control but Kimbley is working from the bottom.
Animai looking to control the position here, rather than advance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Animai has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.
Animai is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Animai postures up and lands a big shot to Kimbley's brow.
Animai postures up and lands a big shot to Kimbley's brow.
Animai is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Animai is in close to Kimbley's body, working some short punches and elbows.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Animai postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Animai trying to control but Kimbley is working from the bottom.
Animai has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Animai accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Animai wants to control from the top but Kimbley keeps moving.
Animai chips away with some ground and pound.
Kimbley avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Animai advances to half guard.
Animai seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Kimbley does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Animai seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Animai winds up and cracks Kimbley with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Animai lands a nice short elbow.
Kimbley wants to improve his position but Animai is controlling well.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kimbley looks gassed!
Kimbley has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Animai is working away from the top position though.
Animai lands strikes from half guard.
Animai working the head and body with strikes.
Animai looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Animai looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Animai trying to mount his opponent but Kimbley defends it.
Animai is nestled in close to Kimbley, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

Animai stands up out of the half guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Animai gets the takedown into side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kimbley seems a little lost for a moment, as Animai dominates the positioning.
Check out the look on Animai's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Animai lands some shots froms side control.
Animai in side control here. He's dropped a big elbow there and Kimbley looks hurt! Oh, he is hurt! Animai turns on the heat and pounds him out for a TKO victory! Good killer instinct there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Laldama Animai!
During a confident post fight interview, Laldama Animai thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.