PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vladamir Osborne (ranked 7340 p4p, 0 weight class) and Antonio Almeida (ranked 2959 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Osborne
vs
Almeida

190 cm
22
210 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

188 cm
25
204 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Granite chin

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Vladamir Osborne!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Antonio Almeida!
The judges for this bout are Viktor Lagutenko, Valeri Chadov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Almeida with a poor takedown

and Osborne counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.

Almeida looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

Almeida looking for submissions off his back.

Osborne wants to work for an arm triangle but Almeida is really keeping half guard well and defending the submission attempt.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Almeida gets back to full guard.
Osborne postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.

Almeida is actively looking for submissions from his back. He's worked himself a little space on the bottom and seems to be going for a triangle. No, he's switched into an armbar! That was slick! Osborne rolls with it to try and escape but Almeida cranks on the arm and Osborne is forced to tap out! This one is aaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Antonio Almeida!
Antonio Almeida spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.