PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Rafael Dos Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mickey Finn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Finn's choice of entrance music: Von Bondies - C'mon c'mon. This should be fireworks!

Dos Santos
vs
Finn

185 cm
24
195 lbs
11 - 2 - 0

182 cm
37
197 lbs
34 - 15 - 1

Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Milwaukee's Best 160

Zombie Nutrition - LOD
Reaper Combatwear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Dos Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 34 - 15 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Mickey Finn!
The judges for this bout are Leandro Rodrigues, Daniel Cesar and Felipe Paraventi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sloppy strikes from Dos Santos. Those never looked like landing.
Finn avoids the head kick by Dos Santos.
Finn shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Dos Santos pinned against the cage. Dos Santos gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
A cross from Finn lands.
Finn misses the shot to the body.
Finn has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Finn connects with a body shot that sends Dos Santos's belly button to the back.
Dos Santos scores with a nice head shot.

It looks like Mickey Finn has been cut.
Dos Santos slaps away a takedown attempt from Finn, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Finn goes for a double leg but Dos Santos avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Dos Santos continues to drive forward.
Rafael Dos Santos has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Mickey Finn.

Finn has moved round to his opponent's back and is looking for a suplex! Oh snap! He's tossed Dos Santos clear over his head and slammed him to the mat!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace.
Finn is trying to stick to Dos Santos's back but Dos Santos is turning into Finn. He's managed to reverse the position - now he's in Finn's guard. Polite applause from the crowd in appreciation of some nice Jiu Jitsu by Dos Santos.
We've been hearing good reports from Dos Santos's training camp. Apparently he has been rolling around with some good quality BJJ practitioners and has been sharpening his skills. Let's see if that has an impact on the fight today.
Finn preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Dos Santos is looking to work some ground and pound but Finn has wrist control.
Dos Santos with a flurry of punches that miss.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Finn keeping moving, preventing Dos Santos from controlling successfully.
Dos Santos wants to stand but Finn is controlling his posture from full guard.
Dos Santos throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Finn preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Finn keeping moving, preventing Dos Santos from controlling successfully.
Finn manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Dos 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.
Finn lands with some strikes.
Dos Santos is trying desperately to improve position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Finn controlling the pace for now.
Finn unloading with bombs!
Finn working the ground and pound effectively.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Dos Santos is bucking up trying to escape but Finn cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Finn landing strikes, looking to finish!

Dos Santos is rocked!
Finn trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Dos Santos gets back to half guard.

Finn is looking for a kimura but Dos Santos is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Finn to get the leverage.
Dos Santos is refusing to be controlled, as Finn sits in half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos is looking to improve his position.
Dos Santos is working hard here to advance position.
Dos Santos avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Finn.
Dos Santos tries to roll over but Finn keeps him under control.
Finn seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Dos Santos does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Finn is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Finn sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Dos Santos defending well though.
Dos Santos is looking to improve his position.
The fighters are battling for position here. Dos Santos manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
Dos Santos avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Dos Santos working for a triangle but Finn defends it easily.
Dos Santos working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Finn.
Finn landing some decent shots from guard.
Dos Santos not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Dos Santos wants to hit a switch here but Finn passes into full mount! Oh no, disaster for Dos Santos there!
Dos Santos sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Finn is working for an americana but Dos Santos has been sneaky and has managed to get back to half guard, whilst Finn was thinking about the submission.
Finn postures up.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Mickey Finn dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Mickey Finn's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Finn misses the shot to the body.
Finn swings away with a leg kick that misses.

Finn has managed to clinch.

Dos Santos manages to pull guard.
Dos Santos keeping moving, preventing Finn from controlling successfully.
Dos Santos is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Dos Santos is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Mickey Finn has got the better of the ground game so far.

Dos Santos is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.

Dos Santos seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Finn is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:59 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Rafael Dos Santos!