PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Leland Hopkins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nate Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Hopkins
vs
Santos

176 cm
20
193 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

187 cm
25
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Basic striking
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Leland Hopkins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Nate Santos!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Patrick Alders and Radbod Blank.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hopkins will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

Santos shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Hopkins is looking to improve his position.
Santos working Hopkins over with strikes.
Santos throwing shots but Hopkins is blocking nicely.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Hopkins is defending against the submission attempts here by Santos.
Hopkins tries to get to full guard but Santos has control of the leg.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hopkins tries to kick Santos off but Santos keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Santos working the head and body with strikes.
Santos takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.
Hopkins gets full guard.
Santos's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Santos working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Hopkins's head.
Hopkins working a defensive guard but Santos manages to pass into side control anyway.
Hopkins is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos tries to move into full mount but can't pass Hopkins's legs.
Hopkins tries to control but end up mounted... ooooh, that's bad.
Santos is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Santos with the ground and pound from mount.
Santos breaks from Hopkins's wrist control and lands an elbow.

Hopkins is rocked!
Hopkins in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Oh Hopkins is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Whack. That's a big, big shot from Santos! Hopkins is out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Nate Santos!