PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tarik Ramic (ranked 5697 p4p, 622 weight class) and Frank De Bruyne (ranked 5854 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying De Bruyne's choice of entrance music: ScHoolboy Q - Man Of The Year. Tarik Ramic has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Ramic
vs
De Bruyne

185 cm
23
200 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

174 cm
19
158 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Likes musicals

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 Sydney, Tarik Ramic!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Frank De Bruyne!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Winston Howard and Darius Henderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Ramic closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. De Bruyne did well to prevent Ramic getting side control.

De Bruyne has managed to escape just enough to sneak back to his feet but Ramic is on him like a limpet, forcing De Bruyne back against the cage.

Ramic turns his back and goes for a hip toss. It's a bit messy but it gets the job done and Ramic manages to end up in side control.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Ramic tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Ramic has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

Ramic is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but De Bruyne is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.

Ramic is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. De Bruyne knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Ramic tries for a kimura but De Bruyne is defending well.

Ramic has worked his way into a potential kimura here. De Bruyne is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Ramic yanks on the arm and De Bruyne is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Ramic.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Tarik Ramic!