PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tyreke Evans (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Simon Penn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Evans
vs
Penn

196 cm
18
215 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

190 cm
20
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

[JMFC] Klinch

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Tyreke Evans!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Simon Penn!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Luis Engracia and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Penn lands a head shot.
Evans misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Evans takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Penn misses with a double jab.
Penn smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Evans on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Penn throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Penn misses with a series of wild punches.
Penn throws a hook but Evans avoids it easily.
Penn pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Nice shot lands for Penn.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Penn fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Penn leaves Evans with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Evans looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Penn is fending him off so far but Evans persists. Nope, Penn circles away and we're back to standing.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Tyreke Evans. That's going to take a lot out of him.
A telegraphed right hand from Penn misses the target.
Evans keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Evans displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Penn throws out the jab.
Evans shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Penn sprawls well. Penn wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Evans gets slowly back to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evans shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Penn but Penn pushes him off and we're back to square one.

Evans shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Penn napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Penn tries to escape but Evans is in control.
Penn is looking to reverse the position.
Penn is not content to let Evans control the position.
The referee asks Evans politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Evans prefers to stall for the moment though.
Penn manages to work his way to half guard, despite Evans's best efforts.

Evans is actively looking for submissions here but good counter grappling here from Penn as he works his way to full guard.
Evans throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Evans won't allow Penn to sweep him here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Evans prevents Penn from getting back to his feet.
Penn wants to sweep but no luck.
Evans prevents Penn from getting back to his feet.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Evans slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Evans wants to control but Penn is keeping him busy.

Evans wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Penn, who protects the arm well.

Evans tries for a kimura but Penn is defending well.
Evans is breathing heavily.

Evans tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Evans has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

Penn explodes and escapes back to his feet! Nice escape there!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Evans is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Penn misses with a two punch combination.
Penn misses with a looping right.

Evans scores a takedown into full mount!
Penn is trying to escape the mount.

Evans working for a guillotine from mount but Penn is in no mood to give up.
Evans looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Penn really trying hard to get back to half guard here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Evans trying to control but Penn is having none of it.
Evans prevents Penn from getting the reversal.
Penn is not a happy chappy… he wants out of there.
Penn is trying desperately to improve position.
Evans trying to control but Penn is having none of it.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Evans wants to finish this one by submission but Penn is holding onto his waist, trying to prevent any attacks from Evans.
Penn tries to get back to half guard but can't.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Simon Penn dominated that round.
That's time! Evans's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Penn throws out a loose jab but Evans uses good head movement to avoid it.
Evans uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Penn.
Nice defenses there by Evans.

Evans clinches up against the cage.
Penn working hard to break the clinch.
Penn is trying to break the clinch but Evans is controlling him.
Evans has Penn pressed up against the cage and is working for takedown. Penn manages to improve position though and keeps the fight standing.

Evans has dropped down and is working for a takedown. Penn is trying to keep an underhook but Evans manages to get the takedown into half guard.
Evans is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Penn!
Penn working to try and regain half guard.
Penn gets back to half guard.
Evans prevents Penn from improving his position.
Penn wants to get back to his feet.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Evans seems to be looking for submissions.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Penn keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Penn wants to get back to full guard.

Evans is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Penn is trying to stand up here but Evans is controlling him well.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Penn is breathing heavily.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Penn looks to throw the jab but Evans is out of range.
Evans throws a left and a right that both miss
enabling Penn to counter with a crisp jab.

Evans closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.

Evans looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Penn regains half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Evans is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Penn trying to control from the bottom.
Penn tries to roll over but Evans keeps him under control.
Well, if Evans is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Penn tries to get to full guard but Evans has control of the leg.
Evans wants to pass to mount but Penn is defending the position.
Penn tries to kick Evans off but Evans keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Penn is trying to get back to full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Penn misses with a looping right.
Penn scores with a body shot.
Penn fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Penn missing with a left hand there. Evans was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Evans shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Penn sprawls well. Penn wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Evans gets slowly back to his feet.

Evans looks for a takedown. He's got it. We're now in half guard.

Penn manages to escape and get back to his feet!

Evans drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Evans sitting in guard here, content to control.
Evans stops Penn from standing up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Evans drops back for a leg! It's a sloppy attempt though and Evans jumps back into guard quickly, to retain the dominant position.
Evans prevents Penn from getting back to his feet.
Tyreke Evans overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Evans sitting in guard, not really doing much.
Evans stands and throws Penn's legs to the side, diving into side control.

Evans is in a dominant position here, looking for a kimura. Penn looks calm but he's in trouble here. Evans gets his leg over his opponent's head and yanks on the arm. Penn is tapping like a morse code operator on the titanic! SOS! SOS! Evans lets go of the hold and Penn can pop his arm back in it's socket.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Tyreke Evans!