PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Santana (ranked 2639 p4p, 289 weight class) and John Brown (ranked 1555 p4p, 188 weight class). Santana comes to the cage accompanied by Check My Swag. Brown has chosen Sumo as his entrance music. John Brown is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Santana
vs
Brown

173 cm
41
159 lbs
27 - 17 - 0

180 cm
36
166 lbs
22 - 26 - 2

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Fast

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 27 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Antonio Santana!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 26 - 2, fighting out of Hilo, John Brown!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Ian Loll and Elvis Blanc.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santana lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Santana blocks a head kick by Brown.
Santana fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Brown manages to avoid it.
Good standup being displayed there by Brown as he connects with a hook.
Santana has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Doherty's Gym in the buildup to the fight.
Brown throws a leg kick but Santana moved away.
Brown throws a leg kick but Santana sees it coming and moves out of range.
Brown uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Santana.
Santana scoring well with a low kick there.
Brown moves forwards but Santana connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Brown scores with a jab to the body.
Brown scores with a hook.
The fighters circling - Santana throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Santana scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Santana takes one on the chin but seems OK.
The fighters circle momentarily. Santana darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Antonio Santana seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Brown misses with a hook.
Brown slips a jab from Santana.
Brown wants to land a leg kick but Santana is out of range.
It looked like Santana was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Brown.
Santana looks to throw the jab but Brown is out of range.
Santana lands a really nice looking cross but Brown seems unphased.

It looks like John Brown has been cut.
Santana comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santana tries to land a leg kick but Brown saw it coming and moves away.
Santana tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Brown is able to avoid easily.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Santana checks a leg kick.
Brown uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Santana.
A telegraphed right hand from Santana misses the target.
A good leg kick by Santana.
Santana misses with a series of wild punches.
A slow jab from Santana misses its intended target.
Santana misses with a body shot.
Brown takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Brown goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Brown looks to score with a jab to the body but Santana is just out of range.
Santana throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.
Brown takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Brown goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Brown moves away from the strike by Santana.
Santana cracks Brown with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santana throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Santana misses with an attempted mid kick.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Santana scores with a hook.
Brown takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Brown moves out of range of the body kick.
Brown sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
The fighters circling - Santana throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Santana ducks under a wild hook from Brown.
Brown throws a head kick that misses.
Brown on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Santana lands a nice leg kick that just misses Brown's sensitive parts.
Brown on the wrong end of a nice jab.

Brown is rocked!
Santana lunges in with a left hook that violently twists Brown head around and knocks him out cold! Santana hops onto the cage and yells out at the top of his lungs - Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah! They're showing the replay on the big screens now; that was nasty! I hope one of the photographers got a good shot of it.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Antonio Santana!
After winning the bout, Antonio Santana thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.