PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Double Espresso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and lee stone (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Espresso
vs
stone

190 cm
19
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
18
212 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Intelligent

Non-Stop Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Double Espresso!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, lee stone!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Steven Brown and Donald Grub.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

stone feints and as Espresso raises his hands in defense, stone changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Espresso throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
stone preventing the sweep.
Espresso lands an upkick as stone stands over him.
Espresso tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Espresso keeping moving, preventing stone from controlling successfully.

stone decides to stand up and beckons his opponent to follow.

Espresso scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
stone is looking for a sweep.
stone is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Espresso wants to lay and pray for a moment but stone keeps working.

stone throws Espresso to one side and escapes!
stone fails with the takedown

and Espresso counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Espresso looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks stone with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
stone tries to get to full guard but Espresso has control of the leg.
Espresso 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.
stone wants to get back to his feet.
Ground and pound from Espresso.
Espresso 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.
Espresso 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.
stone won't allow Espresso to pass to mount.
Espresso slips a nice elbow through stone's hands, connecting with stone's forehead.
stone wants to get back to full guard.
stone looks gassed!

stone looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Espresso looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks stone with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Espresso controlling the action here.
Espresso drops an elbow to the side of stone's head.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
stone has hold of Espresso's hands but Espresso slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Espresso stops stone from getting back to his feet.
Ground and pound from Espresso.
stone tries to kick Espresso off but Espresso keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Espresso landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Espresso landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Espresso trying to control from half guard but stone is working away.
stone on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Espresso trying to control the pace.
Espresso is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Espresso working stone over with strikes.
stone is in trouble now - Espresso has advanced to mount!
Espresso landing shots from mount.
Espresso working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Espresso postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. stone looks a forlorn figure.
Espresso will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
BOOM! Espresso connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Espresso lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Espresso cracks stone with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
stone is in a horrible position here. Espresso smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Espresso has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of stone's face.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Espresso lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
stone taking shots to the head.
Espresso in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Espresso dominating with strikes here.

stone is rocked!
Espresso punishing his opponent with strikes.
stone is bucking up trying to escape but Espresso cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
stone is still in real trouble! Can Espresso finish him?
Espresso breaks from stone's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Espresso tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Espresso lands a big elbow - stone is in trouble! More strikes from the mount and stone is forced to tap out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Double Espresso!