PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Sanchez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ruben Alamo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sanchez
vs
Alamo

190 cm
24
150 lbs
8 - 0 - 0

180 cm
30
150 lbs
6 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid Muay Thai
Cardio machine

Good takedowns
Brawler
Good gas tank

Alpha-Male Nutritional Supplements (q160)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Antonio Sanchez!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ruben Alamo!
The judges for this bout are , Timothy Bukovac and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Alamo shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Alamo was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Sanchez gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Sanchez is trying to get back to full guard.
Sanchez works his way to full guard. Good work.
Alamo trying to control but Sanchez is working from the bottom.
Alamo looking to sit in guard and control but Sanchez gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Sanchez avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

Alamo isolates an arm and boxes in a triangle. Sanchez stacks Alamo on his neck as he steps over and passes to the side. He's now in a much more dominant position where he can look to do some serious damage. Nice move by Sanchez!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Alamo prevents Sanchez from improving position.

Sanchez working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
You can see the frustration on Alamo's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Alamo is looking to reverse the position.
Sanchez really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

Sanchez wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Alamo, who protects the arm well.
Alamo tries to improve position but can't.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Alamo is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Alamo is not content to let Sanchez control the position.

Sanchez tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Sanchez has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Alamo wants to control but Sanchez postures up.
Alamo manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!

Alamo is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Sanchez defends it well.

Alamo looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Sanchez is defending against the submission attempts here by Alamo.
Sanchez gets back to full guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Sanchez lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.

Alamo throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ruben Alamo!
Ruben Alamo is the new featherweight champion!