PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Scot Santana (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harold Howitzer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Santana
vs
Howitzer

167 cm
18
177 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

182 cm
25
178 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Likes comics

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Prefers standup

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Scot Santana!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Harold Howitzer!
The judges for this bout are Vladimir Khabensky, Viktor Lagutenko and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Howitzer has taken the fight to the clinch.
Santana wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Howitzer gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Santana.
Howitzer pushes Santana back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.

Howitzer pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Howitzer closes the distance and clinches.
Howitzer stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.

Howitzer breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Howitzer misses with a series of wild punches.
Howitzer misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

Santana clinches with his opponent.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Howitzer lands a right hand.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Howitzer creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.

Howitzer escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Santana could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Howitzer misses with a two punch combination.
Santana dodges the punch combination from Howitzer.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Howitzer clinches up against the cage.
Santana misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Howitzer presses Santana against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.

Howitzer pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Howitzer fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Howitzer fails to land with a series of punches.

Howitzer takes the fight into the clinch.
With the fighters up against the cage, Santana throws an elbow but misses.

Howitzer escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Howitzer misses with a jab, cross combination.
A punch combination from Howitzer misses.
Howitzer misses with a wild combination.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santana misses with a jab, cross combination.
Howitzer throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Santana.

Howitzer pushes Santana up against the cage in a clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A left hand lands to the body for Howitzer.
Santana misses with a short punch on the inside.
Howitzer lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.

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

Howitzer fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Santana, pushing him back against the cage.
Santana wants a takedown but no success here.
Howitzer is working Santana over against the cage.
A left hand lands to the body for Howitzer.
Santana is breathing heavily.
A right hook to the body lands for Howitzer.
Howitzer presses Santana against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Howitzer presses Santana against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.

Howitzer's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
No joy there for Howitzer, who threw a few shots but didn't land.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Howitzer lands a two punch combo.

It looks like Scot Santana has been cut.
Howitzer will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Howitzer rushes Santana and presses him up against the cage.

Howitzer manages to break the clinch.

Howitzer takes the fight into the clinch.
A short left from Howitzer.

Howitzer breaks from the clinch.
Harold Howitzer is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Howitzer throws a right and a left that Santana avoids nicely.

Santana clinches up with Howitzer and pushes him back against the cage.
Santana fails to pull guard.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Scot Santana. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Howitzer lands a left hand that snaps the head of Santana backwards.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Santana has dropped down and is looking to force the takedown but it's defended by Howitzer after a bit of a struggle.
Howitzer cracks Santana with a nice body shot.
Good body shot from Howitzer.

Howitzer pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Howitzer scores with a one two! Santana had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Howitzer lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Santana backs up against the cage.

Santana is rocked!
Howitzer throws a perfectly timed hook that sends Santana crashing down! Santana tries to stagger back to his feet but Howitzer just hammers him until the ref stops the fight! A confused Santana asks the ref what just happened. Poor fella.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Harold Howitzer!