PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Henry Keaty (ranked 1781 p4p, 6129 weight class) and Russel Taric (ranked 197 p4p, 427 weight class). Keaty's entrance music is Lazerpunk - Damage. A fine choice. Taric comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Moby-South Side feat. Gwen Stefani kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Keaty
vs
Taric

170 cm
28
143
7 - 2 - 0

168 cm
19
153
1 - 1 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Brawler
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Determined

SpeeDee BBQ
MKFC

MKFC

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 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Henry Keaty!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Russel Taric!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Sergei Dronov and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Decent striking displayed by Taric there.
Taric throws a good cross that connects.

Keaty closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Taric quickly recovers to half guard.
Keaty is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
Taric felt the need to train up his defensive grappling in the buildup to the fight. Presumably he was expecting to be in a difficult position like this, so let's see if he can get out of it.

Taric looking for subs from the bottom but Keaty mounts him!
Keaty controlling his opponent.

Keaty working for a submission but Taric is keeping him at bay.
Taric tries to reverse the position but Keaty maintains control.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Keaty swings around for an armbar and he's got it! Wow, that came out of nowhere! What a finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Henry Keaty!
Henry Keaty very nearly forgot to thank SpeeDee BBQ amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.