PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Santiago (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mark Lewis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Santiago comes to the cage accompanied by Don't You Wish You Were Me-Fozzy. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Santiago
vs
Lewis

188 cm
24
192 lbs
8 - 1 - 0

186 cm
19
194 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

Team S.W.A.T.
Golden Lilium

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 8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Antonio Santiago!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mark Lewis!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Tiny Johnson and Wesley Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lewis takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Mark Lewis seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Lewis misses with a hook to the body
letting Santiago counter with a right hand.
Lewis pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Lewis looks to score with a jab to the body but Santiago is just out of range.
Santiago scores with a body shot.
Lewis throws a series of punches but Santiago avoids them all with ease.
Santiago scores with a jab.
Lewis on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Lewis misses with a double jab
and Santiago counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Lewis will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Lewis misses with a body punch
and Santiago counters with a nice body shot.
Santiago defending well as Lewis loads up on a big left hand.
Santiago steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Lewis.
Lewis throws a jab but it's blocked by Santiago.
Lewis throws a jab but it's blocked by Santiago.
Lewis misses with an uppercut. Santiago saw that one coming.

Santiago shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Lewis has a hand on Santiago's thigh, trying to get back to full guard. Santiago takes advantage of the position though and mounts him!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lewis is desperately trying to improve his position but Santiago has a good base and remains in mount.
Santiago looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

It looks like Mark Lewis has been cut.
Lewis working to try and regain half guard.
Lewis manages to regain half guard. Good work.

Santiago is trying to work for a kimura but Lewis is defending well.
Lewis regains full guard. Nicely done.
Santiago stops Lewis from standing up.
Santiago wants to pass the guard but Lewis is keeping the position.
Lewis tries to strike from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santiago won't allow Lewis to sweep him here.
Santiago pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Lewis is keeping the position for now.

Santiago 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.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fight is doing enough on the ground.
Lewis throws a looping overhand right but Santiago ducks down to avoid it.
Lewis rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Santiago moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Lewis throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.

Santiago decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.
The fighters are battling for position here. Lewis manages to regain full guard. Nice work.

Lewis has an active guard here but Santiago has managed to pass into half guard.
Lewis looks gassed!
Santiago scoring with strikes to the body and head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Santiago is looking for a kimura here.
Santiago moves into side control, avoiding the strikes from Lewis.

Santiago tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Santiago has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Santiago scoring with punches from side control.
Lewis is trying to get back to half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Lewis misses with an elbow from the bottom.

Lewis wants to improve his position, back to half guard but Santiago has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Lewis's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Lewis is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for Santiago!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Antonio Santiago!