PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Frankie Edgar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andrei Lovik (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Edgar has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Frankie Edgar looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Edgar
vs
Lovik

168 cm
25
165 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

180 cm
24
170 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
KO power

Good wrestler
Counter striker
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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Frankie Edgar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Andrei Lovik!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lovik gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Edgar counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Lovik's guard now.
Edgar throws a big right hand that misses.
Edgar 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.
Lovik is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Lovik is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.

Lovik is working for a kimura but Edgar is defending it quite comfortably.

Lovik is trying to work for a kimura but Edgar is defending well.
Edgar trying to hold on to Lovik's head to control him but Lovik postures up.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Lovik is trying for a kimura here. Edgar looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! Lovik wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Andrei Lovik!