PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Jason Vezina (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Markov Petrenko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Vezina
vs
Petrenko

190 cm
25
184 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
21
176 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Good knees
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jason Vezina!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Markov Petrenko!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Konstantin Menshow and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Vezina throws a right and a left that Petrenko avoids nicely.
Vezina throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Vezina misses with a two punch combination.
Petrenko looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Petrenko avoids the head kick by Vezina.
Vezina lands with a shot to the body.
Vezina lands a nice looking kick to the body. Petrenko takes a step back to recover.
Vezina throws an off balance right hand
and Petrenko counters with an outside leg kick.
Vezina misses with a head kick.
Petrenko slips a straight right by Vezina.

Petrenko changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Vezina looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Vezina is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Petrenko misses with an attempted head punch from side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Petrenko has hold of Vezina's arm. He's looking for a kimura. Vezina seems comfortable defending it but Petrenko has shifted his position slighty and is cranking on the arm! Vezina is real pain and he's forced to tap out! Vezina is disgusted with himself for not defending it better but Petrenko couldn't care less - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:15 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Markov Petrenko!