PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Manvel Gamburyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Flare (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gamburyan comes to the cage accompanied by Gamburyan vs. Brown on April 24th. Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Gamburyan
vs
Flare

165 cm
40
197 lbs
11 - 23 - 0

180 cm
36
206 lbs
17 - 30 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 23 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Manvel Gamburyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 30 - 1, fighting out of London, John Flare!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Ivan Kurochkin and Viktor Lagutenko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gamburyan stuffs the takedown attempt from Flare. Flare gets slowly back to his feet.

Gamburyan shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Gamburyan showed some decent athleticism there.
Well, if Gamburyan is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Gamburyan is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Flare wants to improve his position but Gamburyan is controlling well.
Gamburyan 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.
Flare avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Gamburyan.
Flare should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Gamburyan moves into full mount! Flare won't be happy about that!
Gamburyan controlling his opponent.
Gamburyan fails to advance to Flare's back.

Gamburyan is working close to his opponent, looking to work a submission by the looks of things. Oh, he's managed to get a guillotine from mount as his opponent reached up! That looks tiiiiight! Will he tap? YES, he's tapped! Impressive submission by Gamburyan!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Manvel Gamburyan!
Manvel Gamburyan gave a mention to Das Labor in his post fight interview. That will please them (and hopefully generate some sales).