PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Ash Camble (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ernesto Panado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Panado's choice of entrance music: Lorde - Team . Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Camble
vs
Panado

199 cm
24
198 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

185 cm
32
195 lbs
14 - 11 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Good gas tank

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 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Ash Camble!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ernesto Panado!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Emerson Jorge and Matheus Silva.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Panado gets the takedown into side control.
Camble prevents Panado from moving into mount.
Camble is trying to control Panado's posture but Panado avoids it.
Camble is in a bad position, trying to hold on for dear life but he is really struggling to maintain any sort of control.
Camble is looking for a sweep.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Panado tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Panado has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Camble is looking to reverse the position.
Camble wants to control but Panado postures up.

Panado is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Camble knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
In the pre-fight buildup videos we saw Panado working his ground and pound in the gym. He isn't landing a great percentage of his ground strikes so far though.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Camble is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Panado asserts his dominance and retains side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Camble struggling a bit here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Panado looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Camble prevents Panado from improving position.
Camble manages to work his way to half guard, despite Panado's best efforts.
Camble trying to control here.
Camble is in a tricky position but he's been working on his transitions down at Fight Factory, so we'll see if he gets out of it.
Camble manages to get to full guard.
Camble can't keep his opponent in guard - Panado advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Panado passes to full mount!
Camble is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Camble is working to get back to half guard.

Panado is working to isolate an arm here. It's a telegraphed submission attempt but he's gone for it anyway - and he's got it! Panado extends the arm and Camble is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ernesto Panado!
Ernesto Panado thanked the fans post fight for their support.