PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thiago Barral (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Aaron Suazo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Barral
vs
Suazo

188 cm
21
185 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

188 cm
20
187 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Likes ground

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 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thiago Barral!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Aaron Suazo!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Alexandre Firmino and Thiago Cunha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Suazo throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Barral's head.
Barral swats away the attempt to clinch by Suazo.
Suazo tries to clinch up but Barral circles away and keeps his distance.

Suazo closes the distance and clinches.
Suazo creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Suazo stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.

Barral jumps guard and drags Suazo to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Suazo trying to pass the guard. He's being very persistent here but Barral manages to land a sweep and now he's on top!
Suazo wants to get back to his feet but Barral is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Barral trying to control the position from guard on top but Suazo is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

Suazo looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Barral passes into side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Suazo tries to bench press Barral off him but Barral keeps the position.
Barral in side control, just content to control the action for now.

Suazo wants to improve his position, back to half guard but Barral has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Suazo's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Suazo is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for Barral!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Thiago Barral!