PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vartan Mamikonyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mario Olicky (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mamikonyan comes to the cage accompanied by True Armenian Hero. Mario Olicky is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Mamikonyan
vs
Olicky

179 cm
22
193 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

181 cm
27
218 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Great elbows
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Powerful

Russian Top Magazin

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 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Vartan Mamikonyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mario Olicky!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Patrick Alders and Saam Ante.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Olicky gets the takedown into side control.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Mamikonyan is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Mamikonyan sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.

Mamikonyan looking for submissions off his back.
Olicky frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Mamikonyan is working to get back to half guard.
Olicky lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.

It looks like Vartan Mamikonyan has been cut.

Olicky moves into side control, trying to work for a kimura. That looks painful! Will he finish!!?? No, Mamikonyan has worked his arm free - good work by Mamikonyan!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
You can see the frustration on Mamikonyan's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Mamikonyan is looking to regain half guard here but Olicky keeps moving and retains side control.

Olicky looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Olicky is putting a hurting on Mamikonyan here, landing some big shots from side control.
Olicky working away.
Mamikonyan manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
Mamikonyan wants to pass to mount but Olicky is defending the position.

Olicky looking for submissions off his back.

Olicky makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!

Olicky darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Mamikonyan has his hands clasped together around Olicky's back. He's all about the action.

Olicky is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Mamikonyan defends it well.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Olicky working the head and body with strikes.
Mamikonyan is trying to control but can't.

Olicky seems to be looking for submissions.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

Mamikonyan looking for submissions off his back.
Mamikonyan on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Mamikonyan is looking to control Olicky's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Mamikonyan avoid being mounted?
Mamikonyan taking some punishment here, with Olicky in his half guard.
Mamikonyan has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Olicky is working away from the top position though.
Mamikonyan taking some punishment here, with Olicky in his half guard.
Olicky lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Olicky seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mamikonyan is looking for a sweep. Olicky is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Mamikonyan gets full guard.

Mamikonyan has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Olicky doesn't defend quickly enough and Mamikonyan has managed to lock this one up! Can Olicky escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Mamikonyan on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Vartan Mamikonyan!
Vartan Mamikonyan decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.