PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joaozinho Gurgel (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Raul Decampo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Gurgel
vs
Decampo

193 cm
30
215 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

189 cm
31
215 lbs
16 - 10 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

ADCC Champion
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Joaozinho Gurgel!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Raul Decampo!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Daniel Cesar and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Decampo is defended easily by Gurgel.
Gurgel stuffs the takedown attempt from Decampo. Decampo gets slowly back to his feet.
Decampo changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Gurgel tries to avoid it but Decampo manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Gurgel to the ground. Gurgel escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Joaozinho Gurgel has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Raul Decampo.
Decampo misses with a takedown attempt - Gurgel sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.

Decampo manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Gurgel on his heels. He'll look to pass Gurgel's guard now, I'm sure.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.
Gurgel pulls Decampo in close to prevent any damage.

Decampo drops back for a leg here. A bit of a high risk move... He's looking for a kneebar by the looks of things. Now both of them are looking for submissions. Decampo seems to have locked his on tight now - Gurgel screams in pain and taps out furiously! It certainly was a high risk move but it's paid off for Decampo, as he picks up the win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). Raul Decampo!
After the fight, Raul Decampo was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.