PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Rob Brooks (ranked 5541 p4p, 0 weight class) and Knuckle Up (ranked 25471 p4p, 0 weight class). Rob Brooks has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Brooks
vs
Up

220 cm
24
194 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

173 cm
25
189 lbs
0 - 5 - 1

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Rob Brooks!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 5 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Knuckle Up !
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Illya Tyunina and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Brooks gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Up to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Brooks pulls Up in to control the position.
Brooks is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Brooks lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Brooks working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Brooks working Up over with strikes.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Brooks maintaining the dominant position here and is working for a kimura. He's locked it up! Up could be in real trouble here! He's trying to wriggle out but Brooks has cracked it and Up is screaming in pain - he's tapped out! Great finish by Brooks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Rob Brooks!