PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Chingis Ganbaatar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Athanasios Konstantoulakis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Ganbaatar might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Mountain Kharkhiraa. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Ganbaatar
vs
Konstantoulakis

220 cm
19
300 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

225 cm
19
300 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Sun-Tzu

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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Chingis Ganbaatar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Athanasios Konstantoulakis!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Viktor Lagutenko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ganbaatar throws a lazy head kick
and Konstantoulakis counters with a straight right hand.

It looks like Chingis Ganbaatar has been cut.

Konstantoulakis throws a left that rocks Ganbaatar and follows with a right that sends him tumbling to the canvas! Konstantoulakis dives into side control, looking to finish! Can Ganbaatar regain composure!
Konstantoulakis fails to land a wild elbow strike.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Ganbaatar is pushing Konstantoulakis's head away, looking to escape. Konstantoulakis manages to hold on to the position though.
Konstantoulakis is trying to ground and pound but Ganbaatar uses the momentary lack of control by Konstantoulakis to regain half guard.

Ganbaatar kicks Konstantoulakis off and gets back to his feet.
Konstantoulakis showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ganbaatar.
Konstantoulakis is clearly trying to counter these attacks from Ganbaatar with a body shot.
Konstantoulakis throws a right and a left that Ganbaatar avoids nicely.
Ganbaatar dodges the punch combination from Konstantoulakis.
Ganbaatar throws a right and a left that Konstantoulakis avoids nicely.
Konstantoulakis lands a slapping body shot.

Konstantoulakis waves his right hand out in front of him, looking to distract Ganbaatar. Oh, he's unloaded a beast of a left hand - it worked! He's dropped Ganbaatar to the canvas! Can he finish him!?

Ganbaatar is rocked!

Chingis Ganbaatar's cut is getting worse.
Konstantoulakis throws a big right hand that misses.
Oh Ganbaatar is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Konstantoulakis throws a big elbow that misses.
Ganbaatar seems to have got his legs back now.
Konstantoulakis throws a strike but Ganbaatar rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ganbaatar is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Konstantoulakis trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Konstantoulakis striking off his back but it's not causing Ganbaatar any problems.
Konstantoulakis throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Ganbaatar engaging in some classic timewasting tactics.
Konstantoulakis doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Konstantoulakis looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Ganbaatar is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Konstantoulakis is striking off his back. Ganbaatar thinks nothing of it though and passes easily into half guard.
Konstantoulakis missing with punches from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Konstantoulakis throws a strike from the bottom but Ganbaatar passes into side control!
Ganbaatar is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Konstantoulakis will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Konstantoulakis tries to slip a leg under to move to half guard but Ganbaatar presses down on the leg and jumps into full mount!
Konstantoulakis swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Ganbaatar controlling the position easily from mount.
Ganbaatar blocks Konstantoulakis's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Konstantoulakis flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Konstantoulakis really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Ganbaatar controlling from the full mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ganbaatar seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Konstantoulakis for as long as he can get away with.
Konstantoulakis is trying to escape the mount.
Ganbaatar controlling the pace for now.
Konstantoulakis tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Ganbaatar controlling his opponent.
Konstantoulakis is trying to escape the mount.
Ganbaatar controlling from the full mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Konstantoulakis flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Ganbaatar looking to control and managing it successfully.
Konstantoulakis tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Konstantoulakis is still trying to improve position.

Ganbaatar swings around for an armbar and he's got it! Wow, that came out of nowhere! What a finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Chingis Ganbaatar!
Chingis Ganbaatar really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Sun-Tzu logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.