PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Patrick O Neil (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Juan Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think O Neil might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to eye of the tiger. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

O Neil
vs
Santos

180 cm
18
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

173 cm
18
150 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Likes ground

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Patrick O Neil!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Juan Santos!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
O Neil moves in looking to clinch but Santos pushes him off.
Santos takes a shot to the body in his stride.
O Neil tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

Santos closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Santos lands in his opponent's guard.
O Neil throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.

O Neil isolates an arm and boxes in a triangle. Santos stacks O Neil on his neck as he steps over and passes to the side. He's now in a much more dominant position where he can look to do some serious damage. Nice move by Santos!

Santos thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Santos trying to control the position but O Neil is working away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
O Neil can't do much from the bottom here.
O Neil is trying to buck Santos off.
Santos trying to control the action but O Neil is working from the bottom.

Santos stands up.
Santos tries for a takedown but O Neil sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.

Santos looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
O Neil looking for a sweep. Not yet O Neil, not yet.

O Neil looking for a guillotine here but Santos defends easily.
Santos passes O Neil's right leg, so he's now in half guard.

Santos gets to his feet - back to striking we go!
O Neil with a lazy takedown attempt

and Santos counters with a single leg into guard. O Neil didn't expect that.
O Neil is breathing heavily.

Santos stands and steps away. O Neil gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.

Santos drives through with a takedown into guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
O Neil is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Santos controls from within his opponent's guard.
Santos passes easily into side control. Nice work.

Santos decides to stand back up.

Santos gets a takedown into half guard.
Santos works his way into side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Santos decides to stand back up. Santos steps back and let's O Neil get back to his feet.

O Neil gets caught flat footed, as Santos shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Santos looking to control the position here, rather than advance.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Santos stands and steps away. O Neil gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Juan Santos dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

O Neil gets caught flat footed, as Santos shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Santos passes into half guard.
Santos wants to take a breather but O Neil is having none of it.
Santos blocks the strikes from O Neil.
O Neil wants to control but Santos is keeping busy and won't allow it.

Santos decides to stand up.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Santos dips down and scores with a jab to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Santos tries to clinch but O Neil moves out of range.
Santos shoots in but O Neil avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Santos comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Santos is looking to take this fight into the clinch.

Santos scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Santos decides to take the fight back to the feet.

Santos scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
O Neil tries to get to full guard but Santos has control of the leg.
Santos trying to control the pace.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
O Neil scrambles, trying to get to his feet, but Santos manages to mount him!
Santos sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
A nice elbow there by Santos.
Santos controlling from the full mount.
Juan Santos has got the better of the ground game so far.

Santos is working for a guillotine from mount but O Neil frees his head quite easily.
Santos avoids the attempt from O Neil to control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Santos takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
O Neil is desperately trying to improve his position but Santos has a good base and remains in mount.
Santos controlling from the full mount.
O Neil is trying desperately to improve position.
Santos tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Juan Santos showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!

Santos lands a jab to O Neil's midsection.
O Neil gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Santos counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in O Neil's guard now.
Santos has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Santos working some strikes from top position.
Santos not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.
Santos tries to free his leg and advance position but O Neil is retaining full guard.
Santos pushes down on O Neil's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Santos looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

That's one minute gone in the round.
O Neil wants to control the action here but instead Santos manages to pass to full mount!
Santos pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

Santos has isolated one of O Neil's arms. O Neil looking to fight him off but Santos twists into an armbar. It's tight... Will he tap?? YES, he's tapped! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:38 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Juan Santos!