PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Keaton Villanova (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Carl Dantes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Villanova comes to the cage accompanied by Lose Yourself-Eminem. I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!

Villanova
vs
Dantes

185 cm
18
185 lbs
0 - 5 - 1

180 cm
25
190 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Solid chin

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 0 - 5 - 1, fighting out of The Island, Keaton Villanova!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Carl Dantes!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, Winston Alpacca and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Villanova shoots and misses
and Dantes cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Dantes misses with a left hand
and Villanova counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Dantes thinking.
Villanova swinging wildly here.

Dantes gets the takedown into side control.
Villanova on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Dantes just content to control the position.
Villanova definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Dantes's corner are shouting for him to control the position and he seems happy to oblige.

Dantes working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dantes working the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dantes works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Dantes trying to control the action but Villanova is working from the bottom.
Dantes working the ground and pound.
Villanova is breathing heavily.

Dantes tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Dantes has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Dantes happy to just control the position for now.
Dantes lands a few punches from side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Dantes scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Villanova to see if he's OK.
Villanova takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Dantes controlling the position.
Dantes working the ground and pound.
Dantes grinds an elbow into Villanova's temple.
Dantes has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Dantes happy to just control the position for now.
Dantes working the head with strikes.
Villanova knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Dantes on the ground.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dantes controlling the position from side mount.
Dantes in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Villanova takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Dantes cracks Villanova with a big elbow.
Dantes has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Villanova!
A nice elbow there by Dantes.

Villanova is rocked!
Dantes loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Villanova scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Dantes land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Dantes stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Carl Dantes!