PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Toni Camacho (ranked 1774 p4p, 2051 weight class) and Tim Holmberg (ranked 199 p4p, 225 weight class). Toni Camacho has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Camacho
vs
Holmberg

209 cm
23
290
8 - 7 - 0

194 cm
22
257
4 - 3 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Lethal high kicks
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Toni Camacho!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Tim Holmberg!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, James Glass and Andrew Berry.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Camacho clinches with his opponent.

Holmberg breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Holmberg rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Camacho moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Camacho takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Holmberg shoots and misses
and Camacho counters with a lovely straight right hand!

It looks like Tim Holmberg has been cut.

Camacho shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Camacho showed some decent athleticism there.
Holmberg landing rabbit punches to the side of Camacho's head. Not doing much damage but still scoring a few points.
Holmberg has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Camacho is working away from the top position though.
Camacho looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Camacho tries to pass the half guard into mount. Holmberg knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Holmberg is looking to improve his position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Holmberg is trying to maintain the position but Camacho is very close to passing his half guard.

Holmberg throws strikes from the bottom but it's allowed Camacho to grab hold of an arm and go for an armbar! It's tiiiiiiiiight! Holmberg is forced to tap! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Toni Camacho!
After the fight, Toni Camacho 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.