PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Abdual Jemall (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Angel Pain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Pain is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: "Meet the Monster" Five Finger Death Punch. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Jemall
vs
Pain

180 cm
24
160 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

180 cm
28
165 lbs
5 - 16 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Abdual Jemall!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 16 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Angel Pain!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Illya Tyunina and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pain fails with an attempt to clinch.
A combination from Jemall does no damage.
Pain fails to land the takedown.

Jemall scores with a takedown into Pain's guard.

Jemall drops back looking for a leg! Pain is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Pain manages to kick Jemall off! Jemall jumps back into Pain's guard.
Jemall working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Pain's head.
Pain keeping moving, preventing Jemall from controlling successfully.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Jemall accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Pain is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Jemall makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Jemall.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Jemall is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Jemall punching to the body, from the bottom.
Jemall has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jemall throwing strikes off his back to little effect.

Jemall has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Pain doesn't defend quickly enough and Jemall has managed to lock this one up! Can Pain escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Jemall on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Abdual Jemall!