PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Casey Carter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yenker Rian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Casey Carter looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Carter
vs
Rian

175 cm
18
138 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

170 cm
25
141 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big right hand

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Granite chin

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Casey Carter!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Yenker Rian!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Viktor Lagutenko and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rian moves into the clinch successfully.

Rian has double underhooks and is working for a body lock takedown. He's got it. The fighters land in half guard but Carter regains guard immediately.
Rian is stalling in the full guard.
Rian passes into half guard.
Rian is controlling the pace.
Rian winds up and cracks Carter with a swinging punch to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rian not doing much here.

Rian decides he's had enough of the ground and stands up.
Carter looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.

Rian rushes Carter and presses him up against the cage.

Rian gets a trip takedown into half guard.
Carter is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Rian scores with a couple of nice shots.
Carter is breathing heavily.
Rian is nestled in close to Carter, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Carter on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Rian looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Rian moves nicely into side control.
Rian lands some shots froms side control.
Rian cracks Carter with a big elbow.
Rian grinds an elbow into Carter's temple.
A lull in the action here.
It looks like Rian might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.

Rian stands up and beckons Carter to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Rian closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Carter quickly recovers to half guard.
Rian working Carter over with strikes.
Rian is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Rian has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Rian moves into full mount! Carter won't be happy about that!
Rian with a couple of short strikes.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Yenker Rian!