PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Stanislav Elimov (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and aigars razgals (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Elimov kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is act a fool. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Elimov
vs
razgals

189 cm
19
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

178 cm
22
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good in bed

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Stanislav Elimov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, aigars razgals!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Illya Tyunina and Valeri Chadov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Elimov shoots in looking for a takedown. razgals tries to sprawl out of it but Elimov keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. razgals manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
razgals fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
razgals avoids a punch combination nicely.
razgals tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Elimov swivels and escapes.
razgals has a takedown stuffed.
Stanislav Elimov has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of aigars razgals.
razgals fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
razgals walks into a stiff left hand from Elimov.
Jab, cross, leg kick. Nice combination by Elimov!
Elimov scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Elimov works over razgals's head and body with a nice combination.

Elimov scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.

razgals is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Elimov pulls his head out easily.
razgals looks gassed!
Elimov working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Elimov working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Elimov seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Elimov throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
razgals keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

razgals looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

razgals looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Elimov lands a nice short elbow.

razgals looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Elimov looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks razgals with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Elimov landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Elimov working the head and body with strikes.
Nice strikes from Elimov there.
Elimov landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Elimov scoring with strikes to the body and head.
razgals tries to get to full guard but Elimov has control of the leg.
razgals has hold of Elimov's hands but Elimov slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Elimov looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Elimov drops an elbow to the side of razgals's head.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Elimov connects with a nice short shot to razgals's temple.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Elimov scoring with strikes to the body and head.

razgals looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Elimov lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.

razgals looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Elimov.
Elimov works over razgals's head and body with a nice combination.
Elimov displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from razgals.
Elimov scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Elimov throws a one two combo.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Elimov throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
razgals looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Elimov scores with a one two! razgals had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Elimov is working the combinations to good effect here.
razgals shoots for a takedown but Elimov saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Horrible takedown by razgals or perhaps it was just good defense by Elimov which made him look bad.
razgals will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Elimov thows a body kick. razgals tries to catch it but that hurt him.
Elimov stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Elimov wants it to stay on the feet.

razgals scores with a takedown into Elimov's guard.

razgals has gone for a leg lock! Elimov slips out almost immediately though and dives into razgals's guard.
Elimov loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.

razgals looking for a triangle here. Elimov is fighting it but it looks tight! razgals pulls the arm across and this one won't last much longer! Nope, Elimov is tapping out - this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). aigars razgals!