PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Scot Sanchez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bruce Shinobi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bruce Shinobi has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Scot Sanchez's chin.

Sanchez
vs
Shinobi

205 cm
22
151 lbs
1 - 6 - 0

175 cm
20
153 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Scot Sanchez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Bruce Shinobi!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Wesley Smith and Cecil Peabody.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sanchez closes the distance and clinches.

Sanchez breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

Shinobi moves into range and clinches up with Sanchez.
Shinobi wants to break the clinch but can't.
Shinobi tries a knee to the head but Sanchez blocks it.
Sanchez pushes Shinobi back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Shinobi has had enough of the clinch but Sanchez keeps him there for the moment.
Shinobi with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Scot Sanchez has been cut.
Shinobi tries to break free but Sanchez pushes him back against the cage.
Sanchez lands a nice shot to the body.
Shinobi tries a knee to the head but Sanchez blocks it.
Shinobi gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

Sanchez breaks the clinch.

Shinobi clinches up with Sanchez and pushes him back against the cage.
Shinobi tries to land a knee to the head but Sanchez blocks with his arms.
Shinobi throws an elbow but it misses.
Shinobi looks winded!
Sanchez leaning against his opponent.
Sanchez is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Sanchez breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Shinobi gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Sanchez breaks from the clinch.

Shinobi closes the distance and pushes Sanchez back into the cage.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Sanchez takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Sanchez on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sanchez keeps control of Shinobi as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.

Sanchez breaks from the clinch.
Sanchez really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Shinobi throws a lazy head kick

and Sanchez moves into the clinch.
Sanchez lands a shot to the body.
Sanchez leaning against his opponent.

Sanchez ties up his opponent against the cage and manages to drag the fight down to the ground. Sanchez no doubt will be looking to work submissions from his guard.
Sanchez is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Sanchez looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sanchez is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Sanchez winds up and cracks Shinobi with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Sanchez is figuring out what he wants to do next.
Sanchez passes the guard and advances to mount!
Sanchez controlling his opponent.
Sanchez 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.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sanchez landing punches.
Sanchez in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Sanchez controlling from mount.
Sanchez is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Shinobi can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Sanchez tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Sanchez lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Sanchez tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Scot Sanchez dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Scot Sanchez's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Sanchez clinches up with Shinobi and pushes him back against the cage.

Sanchez escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Shinobi clinches up with Sanchez and pushes him back against the cage.
Sanchez using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Shinobi has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Sanchez stalling against the cage.
Bruce Shinobi seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
With the fighters up against the cage, Shinobi throws an elbow but misses.
Shinobi working hard to break the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Sanchez breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

Shinobi clinches up against the cage.

Sanchez ties up his opponent against the cage and manages to drag the fight down to the ground. Sanchez no doubt will be looking to work submissions from his guard.

Sanchez scrambles and gets back to his feet.

Shinobi moves into range and clinches up with Sanchez.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sanchez lands an elbow just above Shinobi 's eye.
Sanchez putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Shinobi in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Shinobi is breathing heavily.

Sanchez escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Sanchez closes the distance and clinches.
Shinobi is trying to break the clinch but Sanchez has him pressed against the cage.
Sanchez stalling the fight.

Sanchez breaks the clinch.

Shinobi rushes Sanchez and presses him up against the cage.

Sanchez decides to pull guard.

Shinobi is posturing up here but Sanchez has hold of an arm and he's gone for an armbar! Shinobi tries to roll out but it's too tight and Shinobi has to tap! Slick submission there by Sanchez!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Scot Sanchez!