PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Eli Bathory (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Christian Soendergaard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bathory's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, 'Victory' by Gramatik. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Bathory
vs
Soendergaard

190 cm
28
192 lbs
11 - 8 - 0

186 cm
26
195 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very strong

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 8 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Eli Bathory!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Christian Soendergaard!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Valeri Chadov and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Soendergaard misses with a takedown attempt

and Bathory counters with a shoot takedown. Soendergaard fights it but they end up in guard.

Soendergaard looking for a guillotine here but Bathory defends easily.
Bathory has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Soendergaard trying to control the position.
Bathory preventing the sweep.
Soendergaard preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Bathory scoring with punches to the head and body.
Bathory stopping the sweep attempt from Soendergaard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Soendergaard keeping moving, preventing Bathory from controlling successfully.
Bathory trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Bathory postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Bathory landing with the ground and pound.
Bathory preventing the sweep.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bathory throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Soendergaard works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Bathory distracts Soendergaard with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Bathory postures up.
Bathory works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Bathory scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Bathory looks to land a strike but Soendergaard avoids it nicely and regains full guard.
Soendergaard wants to sweep but no luck.
Soendergaard can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Bathory controls the pace.
Bathory landing some decent shots from guard.
Soendergaard utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Bathory trying to control but Soendergaard is working from the bottom.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Bathory cracks Soendergaard with a solid left hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bathory is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Soendergaard throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Soendergaard preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Bathory postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Bathory stopping the sweep attempt from Soendergaard.
Soendergaard is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Soendergaard is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Bathory pushes down on Soendergaard's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Soendergaard has hold of Bathory's hands but Bathory slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Soendergaard blocking the ground and pound attempt from Bathory.
Soendergaard is trying to get back to full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bathory throwing shots but Soendergaard is blocking nicely.
Soendergaard blocking the ground and pound attempt from Bathory.
Soendergaard has hold of Bathory's hands but Bathory slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Bathory scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Soendergaard is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Bathory working the head and body with strikes.
Bathory working Soendergaard over with strikes.
Bathory tries to pass the half guard into mount. Soendergaard knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Bathory not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
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. Bathory connects with a nice short shot to Soendergaard's temple.
Soendergaard is trying to get back to full guard.
Bathory seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bathory is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Bathory wants to free his trapped foot but Soendergaard is holding on for dear life with his legs.
Bathory 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.
Bathory landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Soendergaard is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Bathory seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Soendergaard regains full guard, whilst avoiding punches from Bathory.
Bathory working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Soendergaard controls Bathory momentarily but Bathory frees himself.

Soendergaard is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Bathory is aware though and is defending well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Eli Bathory dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Bathory bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Bathory scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Soendergaard to see if he's OK.
Soendergaard is looking to regain half guard here but Bathory keeps moving and retains side control.
Bathory lands a nice forearm strike.

Soendergaard is rocked!
Bathory looks up at the clock and then as Soendergaard takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Bathory smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Soendergaard is still in real trouble! Can Bathory finish him?
Bathory scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Soendergaard is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Bathory can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:40 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Eli Bathory!