PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kareem Grey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Raymond Donde (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Grey comes to the cage accompanied by Shut them down. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Grey
vs
Donde

176 cm
25
152 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

180 cm
18
155 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Big right hand

Decent wrestler
Basic striking
Solid chin

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kareem Grey!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Raymond Donde!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Shigeki Fujiwara and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Donde misses with the combination.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Donde crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Grey - the referee stops the clock and Donde gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Grey. Donde manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Donde.

Donde is trying to get an arm triangle but Grey is defending well.
Grey is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Grey is letting Donde control him for a moment.
Grey is looking to work his way out of this bad position but Donde is controlling him well.
Grey is being controlled here.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Let's hope that Donde has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Grey tries to bench press Donde off him but Donde keeps the position.
A lull in the action here as Donde stalls from top position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
It looks like Donde might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.
Donde is continuing to stall.
Grey tries to escape but Donde is in control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Grey is being controlled here.
The adventures of Donde the control monster continue. Boring.
We're seeing a lot of stalling here from Donde.

Donde wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Grey, who protects the arm well.

Donde is working for what looks like an arm triangle here. Grey is trying to escape and Donde transitions quickly into an armbar! He's slapped it on tight and Grey is forced to tap! Nice work there by Donde! Very nice indeed!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Raymond Donde!
A very excited looking Raymond Donde made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.
Kareem Grey was interviewed post fight and said 'Congratz. I'll get tong po another day.'.