PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Romualdo Dimaguiba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jimmy Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Romualdo Dimaguiba has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Dimaguiba
vs
Santos

185 cm
23
180 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

167 cm
23
175 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Determined

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 St Petersburg, Romualdo Dimaguiba!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jimmy Santos!
The judges for this bout are Igor Prikhodko, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dimaguiba fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Santos should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Santos blocks a leg kick.
Dimaguiba misses with a wild combination.
Santos takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Dimaguiba paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Dimaguiba lands a really nice looking cross but Santos seems unphased.

It looks like Jimmy Santos has been cut.
Dimaguiba wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Dimaguiba lands a jab.

Dimaguiba moves into range and throws a big uppercut. OH! Santos goes down! Can Dimaguiba finish him!?

Santos is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Santos bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Dimaguiba's guard.

Dimaguiba on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Dimaguiba tries to get out of the position.
Santos works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Santos is figuring out what he wants to do next.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos wants to pass to mount but Dimaguiba is defending the position.
Dimaguiba avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Santos.
Dimaguiba wants to get back to his feet.

Santos is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! Dimaguiba is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Jimmy Santos!