PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Yury Soares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gerrard Lannister (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Soares comes to the cage accompanied by We Are Harlot - Denial. The crowd seem to be enjoying Lannister's choice of entrance music: Black Veil Brides - Heart of Fire. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Soares
vs
Lannister

170 cm
25
144 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

169 cm
25
142 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

Good takedowns
Brawler
Intelligent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight 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, Yury Soares!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Gerrard Lannister!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Aleksandr Martynov and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Soares scores with a leg kick.
Soares displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Lannister.
Soares scores with a leg kick.
Lannister closes the distance and clinches up with Soares, looking for a takedown. Lannister pushes Soares against the cage but Soares circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Lannister shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Soares but Soares pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Yury Soares has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Gerrard Lannister.
Soares displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Lannister.
Lannister misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Soares. Lannister shrugs it off though.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nice takedown defense from Soares. No joy for Lannister on that attempt.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Lannister.
Lannister looks winded!
Soares leaves Lannister with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Soares bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Soares lands a nice leg kick that just misses Lannister's sensitive parts.

Soares gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Soares looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Nice elbow from Soares.
Soares comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Soares lands an elbow just above Lannister 's eye.
Lannister blocks an elbow strike from Soares.
Soares throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Soares lands a damaging elbow.
Soares lands a damaging elbow.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Soares just misses with a elbow thrown towards Lannister's brow.
Soares throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Soares throws an elbow that misses.
Soares gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Soares lands an elbow inside that Lannister shrugs off.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Soares lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

Lannister is rocked!
Soares lands an elbow that stopped Lannister in his tracks for a moment.
Lannister is still on wobbly legs! Can Soares finish him?
Soares creates some distance and fires off a vicious elbow that drops Lannister! He pounces and finishes the fight with more strikes! Nice KO for Soares.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yury Soares!
Yury Soares decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
Gerrard Lannister was interviewed post fight and said 'Sorry, but, i don't lose more.'.