PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Dwayne Dos Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Phil Taylor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). On his way into the cage it seems that Dwayne Dos Santos has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Dwayne Dos Santos seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Dos Santos
vs
Taylor

177 cm
25
178 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

181 cm
25
168 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Intelligent

BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
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 Amsterdam, Dwayne Dos Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Phil Taylor!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Albert Achterberg and Daniel Blasius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dos Santos tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

Dos Santos drives through with a takedown into guard.

Dos Santos stands up and waves to Taylor to follow him.

Taylor rushes Dos Santos and presses him up against the cage.
Dos Santos has dropped down and is looking to force the takedown but it's defended by Taylor after a bit of a struggle.
Taylor is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Dos Santos gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.

Taylor escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Taylor buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Taylor scores with a body shot.
Dos Santos has a takedown stuffed.
Dos Santos avoids the body shot from Taylor.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Dos Santos shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Dos Santos thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Taylor's head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Taylor controlling the position for now.

Taylor kicks Dos Santos off and gets back to his feet.

Dos Santos rushes Taylor and presses him up against the cage.
Taylor pushes Dos Santos back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

Dos Santos pulls guard successfully.
Dos Santos keeping moving, preventing Taylor from controlling successfully.
Taylor throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Taylor really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Dos Santos. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Taylor is posturing up here but Dos Santos has hold of an arm and he's gone for an armbar! Taylor tries to roll out but it's too tight and Taylor has to tap! Slick submission there by Dos Santos!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Dwayne Dos Santos!