PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Wenutu Halai (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lima Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Halai
vs
Santos

187 cm
25
213 lbs
2 - 4 - 0

187 cm
25
206 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Can Moonwalk

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Wenutu Halai!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Lima Santos!
The judges for this bout are Micheangelo Fripello, Jeff Smith and Ryoma Takatsuka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A jab from Halai finds it's way through Santos's defenses.
Halai with a nice cross.
Santos misses with a body shot.
Santos throws a body punch but Halai moves out of range.
Santos scores with a body shot.

Halai closes the distance and clinches.
Halai stalling in the clinch.
Santos takes a knee right on the jaw!
Halai landing knees to the head.
Halai will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Santos up against the cage.

Santos manages to pull guard.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Santos holds on and takes a little breather.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Halai preventing the sweep.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Halai tries to stand but Santos is controlling from the bottom.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Santos can do anything to dispel that myth.

Santos working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Halai doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Oh but Santos is tightening it up a little... Halai has to be careful here... He's got his foot tucked under now, this looks tight! Halai reacted too slowly and this one could be over in a matter of seconds! YES! Halai taps out! Nice BJJ there by Santos!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Lima Santos!