PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between John Christmas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Barril Salvador (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Christmas comes to the cage accompanied by Enea Vollare Mezzo. Barril Salvador has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Christmas
vs
Salvador

175 cm
24
196 lbs
6 - 5 - 0

188 cm
24
196 lbs
7 - 14 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Decent elbows
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
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 6 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, John Christmas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 14 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Barril Salvador!
The judges for this bout are Igor Prikhodko, Fedor Mirinova and Viktor Lagutenko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Salvador fails with the takedown

and Christmas counters with a takedown into side control.
Christmas grinds an elbow into Salvador's temple.
Christmas wants to lay and pray for a moment but Salvador keeps working.
Christmas landing a few strikes.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Salvador tries to escape but Christmas is in control.
Christmas working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
A lull in the action here.
Salvador is pushing Christmas's head away, looking to escape. Christmas manages to hold on to the position though.
Christmas is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
Christmas trying to control the position but Salvador is working away.
Salvador is trying to escape the position but Christmas is controlling the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Christmas tries to move into full mount but can't pass Salvador's legs.
Christmas moving around in side mount but really he's just happy to control for now.
Salvador is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Christmas asserts his dominance and retains side control.
Christmas lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Salvador down.
Salvador can't do much from the bottom here.
Christmas cracks Salvador with a big right hand but Salvador just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Christmas trying to control the position but Salvador is working away.
Christmas 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.
Salvador is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Christmas asserts his dominance and retains side control.
Christmas controls the position from side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Salvador is pushing Christmas's head away, looking to escape. Christmas manages to hold on to the position though.
Christmas controls the position from side control.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Salvador pushes Christmas away and creates a bit of space to escape. He's almost out here... but no, Christmas gets a good hold of his legs and remains firmly in side control.
Christmas trying to control the position but Salvador is working away.

Christmas looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Salvador wants to get back to his feet.
Salvador gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
Salvador is trying to get back to his feet but can't.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Christmas has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Salvador's face.
Salvador tries to lock up and control but Christmas gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
Christmas has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Salvador's face.
Salvador is wriggling around here but as he tries to escape, Christmas has taken his back.

Christmas looking for the choke from the back.
Christmas lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Christmas is riding his opponent, not letting Salvador buck him off.
Salvador can't escape the position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Christmas wants to control but Salvador is keeping busy.
Salvador looking to stop the rear naked choke attempt by controlling the hands.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Salvador defends a rear naked choke attempt by controlling one of Christmas's arms.
A bit of a pause in the action here. Christmas controlling the positon.
Salvador wants to get back to his feet.
Christmas tries to get the hooks in deep but Salvador pushed the leg off.
Salvador looking to stop the rear naked choke attempt by controlling the hands.
You know, I was talking to some of our celebrities at ringside tonight and they were split right down the middle on who was going to win this fight.
Salvador is in bad spot here.
Salvador is in a world of trouble here. He's outmatched on the ground here and he'd better get Christmas off his back sharpish unless he wants to be submitted.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Christmas scores with a nice shot to the head of his opponent. Salvador is looking for a way out.
Christmas has the hooks sunk in and you can see the will to fight slowly draining out of Salvador's body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

John Christmas dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Christmas gets a double leg takedown into Salvador's guard.

Salvador is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Christmas defends well.
Christmas pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Salvador is keeping the position for now.
Christmas trying to control the position from guard on top but Salvador is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Christmas advances position into side control!

Christmas has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Salvador is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Christmas yanks on the arm and Salvador is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Christmas.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). John Christmas!
An out of breath John Christmas thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.