PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Volya Nikolaev (ranked 119 p4p, 14 weight class) and Caio Bottura (ranked 233 p4p, 30 weight class). Nikolaev's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Fever . Bottura has chosen Face The Pain as his entrance music. Caio Bottura acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Nikolaev
vs
Bottura

170 cm
42
165 lbs
49 - 33 - 0

173 cm
29
165 lbs
22 - 9 - 2

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Granite chin

CAGED CROW Clothings 50$

Urban Fighter
FinnFighter Nutrition (Five 160Q supps!)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 49 - 33 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Volya Nikolaev!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 9 - 2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Caio Bottura!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Phil Schofield and Steven Brown.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bottura with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Nikolaev slips a jab from Bottura.

Nikolaev shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Nikolaev showed some decent athleticism there.
Bottura trying to control but Nikolaev postures up.
Ground and pound from Nikolaev.
Nice strikes from Nikolaev there.
Bottura is trying to get back to full guard.

Nikolaev is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Nikolaev 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.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bottura gets back to full guard.

Bottura looking for a triangle here. Nikolaev is fighting it but it looks tight! Bottura pulls the arm across and this one won't last much longer! Nope, Nikolaev is tapping out - this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Caio Bottura!
Our winner, Caio Bottura, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.