PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Ricardo Thumbs Up Emoji (ranked 25753 p4p, 4250 weight class) and Michel Santos (ranked 512 p4p, 0 weight class). Michel Santos is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Thumbs Up Emoji
vs
Santos

188 cm
21
145
0 - 2 - 0

170 cm
22
140
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ricardo Thumbs Up Emoji!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Michel Santos!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Winston Alpacca and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Thumbs Up Emoji moves out of range as Santos strikes.
Michel Santos seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Thumbs Up Emoji shoots in but no luck this time.
Santos is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Thumbs Up Emoji staying out of range there.
Thumbs Up Emoji tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Santos shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Thumbs Up Emoji sprawls well. Thumbs Up Emoji wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Santos gets slowly back to his feet.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Santos.
Thumbs Up Emoji is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Santos working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.

Santos thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos wants to lay and pray for a moment but Thumbs Up Emoji keeps working.
Santos landing strikes.
Santos controls the position from side control.

Santos looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Michel Santos!
After the fight, Michel Santos was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.