PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Dan Hardy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and juelz santanar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). juelz santanar is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Hardy
vs
santanar

183 cm
21
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
19
163 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Solid 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 Helsinki, Dan Hardy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, juelz santanar!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Matti Vanhoillinen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
santanar misses with a head kick.
santanar looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Hardy has a takedown stuffed.

Hardy closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
The referee asks Hardy politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Hardy prefers to stall for the moment though.
Hardy advances to mount.
Hardy takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
BOOM! Hardy connects with a massive shot to the dome!
santanar takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Hardy in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hardy controlling from the full mount.
Hardy lands with some vicious ground and pound - can santanar hang on?
Hardy working away from the top, dropping strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hardy takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

The referee stands the fighters back up. Dan Hardy just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.

Hardy shoots in with a lovely double leg takedown. santanar manages to land in full guard to minimise the damage.
Hardy controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Hardy passes into half guard.
Hardy is nestled in close to santanar, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Hardy is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
santanar wants to get back to full guard but Hardy has mounted him!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hardy landing strikes, looking to finish!
Hardy controlling the position easily from mount.
Hardy scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish santanar?
Hardy has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of santanar's face.
Hardy controlling the pace for now.
Hardy with the ground and pound from mount.
Hardy takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
santanar really trying hard to get back to half guard here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hardy controlling the pace for now.
santanar tries to improve his position but instead Hardy has taken his back!
I would not like to be santanar right now.
Hardy lands with a big left hand that may well have hurt his opponent. Can santanar hold on?!
santanar has the hand control, trying to stop the rear naked choke.
A bit of a pause in the action here. Hardy controlling the positon.

santanar defending nicely against the rear naked choke attempt.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dan Hardy dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Hardy clinches up with santanar and pushes him back against the cage.
santanar swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hardy goes for a takedown in the clinch but santanar prevents it.
santanar wants to break free but Hardy has control.
santanar takes a shot to the head.

Hardy jumps into guard, dragging santanar to the mat.

Hardy is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Hardy trying to control the position here.

Hardy has butterfly guard. He's looking to stand up here. He pushes santanar off him and springs to his feet nicely. The crowd applauds.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Hardy pushes santanar up against the cage in a clinch.

Hardy breaks the clinch.
A combination from Hardy does no damage.
Hardy throws a head kick but santanar moves out of range.
Hardy shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. santanar defends it nicely.
Hardy fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Hardy fails with a takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Dan Hardy. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Hardy showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from santanar.
Hardy dips down and scores with a jab to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
santanar swings wildly with a couple of big hooks

so Hardy counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.

santanar had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Hardy defends it easily.
Hardy advances position into side control!

Hardy stands up.
Hardy takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
No luck for Hardy with that takedown attempt.
santanar misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
santanar throws a series of punches but Hardy moves out of range.
The fighters circling - santanar throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Hardy fails with a takedown attempt.
santanar looks to clinch

and Hardy counters by clinching up.
santanar tries to circle away but Hardy has him pinned against the cage.

Hardy jumps guard and drags santanar to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Hardy has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.
Hardy controls santanar momentarily but santanar frees himself.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Hardy scrambles and gets back to his feet.

Hardy closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
The referee asks Hardy politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Hardy prefers to stall for the moment though.
santanar tries to buck Hardy off but Hardy is having none of it.
Dan Hardy overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
santanar is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Hardy asserts his dominance and retains side control.
santanar is trying to improve his position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dan Hardy dominated that second round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!

santanar throws a right and a left that Hardy avoids nicely.

Hardy closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. santanar did well to prevent Hardy getting side control.
Hardy is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Hardy with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.

Hardy stands up and beckons santanar to join him on the feet.
A right-left combo lands from Hardy.

Hardy rushes santanar and presses him up against the cage.
Hardy slowing the pace effectively.

Hardy breaks from the clinch.
A head kick misses from Hardy.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hardy shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as santanar sprawls well. santanar wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Hardy gets slowly back to his feet.
Hardy shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with santanar but santanar pushes him off and we're back to square one.
santanar misses with a double jab

and Hardy moves into the clinch.
Hardy stalls.
Hardy can't get the takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Dan Hardy. That's going to take a lot out of him.

santanar pulls guard.
santanar is trying to control the position but Hardy postures up.
Hardy lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Hardy working some strikes from top position.
santanar wants to stand and escape but Hardy is having none of it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Hardy stands up from santanar's guard - Hardy perhaps looking for a knockout.
juelz santanar is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
santanar tries to clinch up.
santanar misses with a double jab

and Hardy counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for santanar!
Hardy manages to capitalize on a mistake by santanar to take his back!
I really don't envy santanar right now.
Hardy controlling the position well here. santanar rolled but Hardy kept the hooks locked in and stayed in the dominant position.
santanar can't escape the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hardy scores with some strikes to the side of the head there. Good, points scoring shots.

Hardy is working really hard to secure the rear naked choke. santanar defends successfully for a significant amount of time. Both fighters are looking very determined.
santanar trying to control but not successfully.
Hardy scores with some strikes to the side of the head there. Good, points scoring shots.
santanar can't escape the position.

santanar is squirming around looking to escape but he's just wriggling himself into more trouble. Hardy sinks in the hooks and manages to tighten his grip on a rear naked choke. santanar has no choice but to tap and Hardy jumps to his feet to celebrate and slick submission win!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:47 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Dan Hardy!