PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Vay Krenshaw (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Glavni Jebac (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Glavni Jebac is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Krenshaw
vs
Jebac

195 cm
25
178 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

187 cm
19
168 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Determined

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, Vay Krenshaw!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Glavni Jebac!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Ben Zyskovitsi and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Krenshaw misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Jebac moves out of range of the body kick.
Krenshaw keeps the fight on the outside.
Krenshaw shoots in but Jebac avoids the takedown attempt easily.

Krenshaw scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Jebac trying to control but Krenshaw postures up.
Krenshaw not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Jebac tries to get to full guard but Krenshaw has control of the leg.
Krenshaw passes to side control.

Krenshaw thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
You can see the frustration on Jebac's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Krenshaw tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Krenshaw has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Jebac is trying to control Krenshaw's posture but Krenshaw avoids it.
Jebac is looking for a sweep.
Jebac struggling a bit here.
Jebac defending against the ground and pound.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Jebac is trying to control Krenshaw's posture but Krenshaw avoids it.

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

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Krenshaw trying to control the action but Jebac is working from the bottom.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
A lull in the action here.
Jebac is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Jebac managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Krenshaw.
Krenshaw trying to control the position but Jebac is working away.

Krenshaw working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Krenshaw works to advance to full mount. Jebac defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Krenshaw unloading with bombs!
Jebac is looking to get to half guard.
Krenshaw avoids the attempt from Jebac to control.
Jebac looks gassed!
Krenshaw lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Krenshaw is working for a guillotine from mount but Jebac frees his head quite easily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Krenshaw tries to control but Jebac wriggling away.

Krenshaw wants to finish this one by submission but Jebac is holding onto his waist, trying to prevent any attacks from Krenshaw.

Jebac has left one of his arms exposed and Krenshaw doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Jebac screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Vay Krenshaw!