PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brad Santana (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Richard Kirmayr (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Brad Santana has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Santana
vs
Kirmayr

220 cm
19
214 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

186 cm
24
205 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Very confident

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brad Santana!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Richard Kirmayr !
The judges for this bout are Leandro Rodrigues, Luis Engracia and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Kirmayr has taken the fight to the clinch.
Kirmayr jumps guard but Santana stands there with Kirmayr around his waist. Kirmayr gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Santana working hard to break the clinch.
Santana is trying to break the clinch but Kirmayr is controlling him.
Kirmayr prevents Santana from breaking the clinch.

Santana's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Kirmayr fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Santana stuffs the takedown.

Kirmayr drives through with a takedown into Santana's guard. Let's see what he can do from the top position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Kirmayr looks winded!
Santana throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Santana tries to land a sweep but no joy.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Santana is looking for a triangle but Kirmayr pushes his legs off easily.
Santana is looking to stand up but Kirmayr isn't so interested in that idea.
Kirmayr slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santana manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Kirmayr manages to get himself to full guard.

Santana throws an elbow that misses. Kirmayr uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Santana's guard. Nice move by Kirmayr !

Santana tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Kirmayr trying to control but Santana is working from the bottom.
Santana tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Santana bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Kirmayr 's guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santana in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Santana trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Santana content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Santana throws a big right hand that misses.
Kirmayr pulls Santana in close to prevent any damage.
Santana throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Kirmayr works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Santana landing some decent shots from guard.
Santana is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santana stands up over Kirmayr , holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Kirmayr is trying to control the position but Santana postures up.
Kirmayr looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Santana working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Santana is in close to Kirmayr 's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Santana preventing the sweep.
Santana postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Kirmayr looking to hit a scissor sweep but Santana is one step ahead there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Santana is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Santana chips away with some ground and pound.
Santana distracts Kirmayr with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Santana has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Santana throwing strikes but missing.
Kirmayr avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.

The ref stands the fighters back up due to a lack of activity.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Santana shoots in looking for a takedown. Kirmayr tries to sprawl out of it but Santana keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Kirmayr manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brad Santana dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Santana gets a double leg takedown into Kirmayr 's guard.
Santana content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Kirmayr has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but Santana has passed into side control.
Santana is working Kirmayr over with some ground and pound from side control.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Check out the look on Santana's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Kirmayr is breathing heavily.
Santana working the head with strikes.
Santana scores with punches from side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santana scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Kirmayr to see if he's OK.
Kirmayr is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Kirmayr gets back to half guard.

Santana is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Kirmayr has managed to free his arm - good work.
Santana is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Kirmayr can do to turn this around?
Kirmayr wants to sweep but Santana has passed to side control!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kirmayr is looking to reverse the position.
Santana cracks Kirmayr with a big elbow.
Santana working away.
Kirmayr looks to move to half guard but instead Santana has passed into mount! Damn!
Santana in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Kirmayr can't escape the position.
Brad Santana overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Santana breaks from Kirmayr 's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Santana avoids the attempt from Kirmayr to control.
Santana lands a big elbow.

Santana looking to secure an arm triangle but Kirmayr defends it well.
The referee warns Kirmayr that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
BOOM! Santana connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Santana is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Santana landing strikes, looking to finish!
Santana unloading with bombs!
Santana has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Kirmayr 's face.
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!
Kirmayr wants to use the cage to get back to his feet here.
Santana scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Kirmayr ?
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Santana cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brad Santana dominated that second round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! Let's hear some noise people - this is the final round!

Kirmayr is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Santana.
Santana displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Kirmayr .
Richard Kirmayr seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Santana tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Kirmayr throws a counter combo.
Kirmayr scores with a shot to the body.
Santana tries to clinch but Kirmayr moves away
and Kirmayr counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.

Santana feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Santana cracks Kirmayr with a solid left hand.
Kirmayr preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Santana lands a couple of elbows.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santana landing some decent shots from guard.
Santana connects with a couple of short punches.
Santana distracts Kirmayr with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Kirmayr is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Santana distracts Kirmayr with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Santana lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kirmayr is trying to control the position but Santana postures up.
Santana postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Santana preventing the sweep.
Santana lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Kirmayr looking to control but Santana passes into half guard.
Santana scoring with strikes to the body and head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Kirmayr looking for subs from the bottom but Santana mounts him!

Santana looking for an armbar but decides to keep the dominant position instead.
Santana looking to finish Kirmayr with some ground and pound. This is bad for Kirmayr !
Kirmayr looking to escape from mount but he's given up his back!
Can Kirmayr hold on?! Santana is landing more strikes to his hapless foe.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kirmayr trying to control but he's just got himself in more trouble.
Kirmayr might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Santana haven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.
Kirmayr is trying to get back to his feet but Santana has full control of the position and if anything, Kirmayr has just worked his way into a worse spot.
Kirmayr trying to control the position but Santana manages to sink in the hooks.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.

Santana looking for the choke but no joy.
Kirmayr can't escape the position.

And that's the end of the fight!
Brad Santana showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Santana, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Leandro Rodrigues scores the fight 30:26
Judge Luis Engracia scores the fight 30:26
Judge Alexandre Firmino scores the fight 30:26

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Brad Santana!