PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alvaro Ibanez Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tim Tebow (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tebow has chosen God's Gonna Cut You Down as his entrance music. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Ibanez Santos
vs
Tebow

191 cm
32
266 lbs
18 - 16 - 0

191 cm
35
240 lbs
21 - 18 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Heavy handed

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 18 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Alvaro Ibanez Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 18 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Tim Tebow!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tebow just misses with a punch to the body.
Santos chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Tebow can pounce on him.
Santos takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Santos ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Tebow moves away.
Tebow throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Santos misses with a series of wild punches.
Santos throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Tebow's waist but Tebow gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Santos off to one side.
Santos uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Tebow.
Tebow scores with a body shot.
Santos closes the distance and clinches up with Tebow, looking for a takedown. Santos pushes Tebow against the cage but Tebow circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Tebow, as that shot connected.
Tebow lands with a thumping leg kick.
Tebow fails with an attempt to clinch.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tebow doesn't manage to clinch there - Santos circles away.
Tebow connects with a body shot.
Tebow takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Santos avoids the body shot from Tebow.
Tebow throws a head kick that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tebow feints a jab promting Santos to slip. Tebow then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Santos slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
Tebow tries to land a leg kick but Santos saw it coming and moves away.

Santos feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.

Santos thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.

Santos is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Tebow avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Santos 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.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Santos's corner. There ya go! There ya go!

Tebow working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Santos doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Santos manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
Tebow looking to control.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Tebow looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Santos accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tebow keeping moving, preventing Santos from controlling successfully.
Santos is looking to work some ground and pound but Tebow has wrist control.

Tebow looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Santos trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.

Tebow is active off his back here, looking for submissions.

Tebow escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Santos gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Tebow looks winded!
Tebow is looking to stand up but Santos isn't so interested in that idea.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santos trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Santos wants to control from the top but Tebow keeps moving.
Santos postures up and lands a big shot to Tebow's brow.
Tebow keeping moving, preventing Santos from controlling successfully.
Santos landing with the ground and pound.

Tebow is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Santos postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Santos is working Tebow over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Santos with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.

Tebow is rocked!
Santos advances position into side control!
Tebow tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Santos wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tebow wants to control but Santos postures up.
Santos scores with a couple of short elbows.

Santos tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Santos has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Tebow is looking for a sweep.
Tebow wants to control but Santos postures up.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Tebow tries to buck Santos off but Santos is having none of it.
Santos working the ground and pound from side control.
Santos working the head with strikes.
Tebow is still in real trouble! Can Santos finish him?
Santos lands a few punches from side control.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Santos in side control here. He's dropped a big elbow there and Tebow looks hurt! Oh, he is hurt! Santos turns on the heat and pounds him out for a TKO victory! Good killer instinct there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alvaro Ibanez Santos!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Alvaro Ibanez Santos made sure he mentioned Wolfpack Blood Labs Q158-Q155, along with how happy he was to win his fight.