PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Felipe Garotinho (ranked 4601 p4p, 5959 weight class) and Nelson De Leon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Garotinho
vs
De Leon

180 cm
25
179
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
25
175
0 - 1 - 0

Good takedowns
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Felipe Garotinho!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Nelson De Leon!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Taro Takaoka and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Garotinho looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into side control! Oh, that's bad for De Leon!
Garotinho trying to control the action but De Leon is working from the bottom.
Garotinho has knee on belly and moves into mount.

Garotinho looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Garotinho throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Garotinho looking for a guillotine from mount but De Leon is having none of it.
Garotinho can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as De Leon is looking to escape.
Garotinho unloading with bombs!

Garotinho is in full mount, looking to secure a guillotine but De Leon is surviving well by controlling Garotinho's body position as best he can.

Garotinho is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. De Leon is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. De Leon flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Garotinho anticipates the leg and manages to get behind De Leon and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Garotinho slips an arm under De Leon chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Garotinho has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Garotinho is squeezing on De Leon like an anaconda would it's prey. De Leon fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Felipe Garotinho!