PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Gabe Shade (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sergio Martinez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Shade
vs
Martinez

175 cm
23
159 lbs
6 - 3 - 0

190 cm
22
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Very strong

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Powerful

Shango Designs

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Gabe Shade!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Sergio Martinez!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martinez ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Shade moves away.
Martinez throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Shade on the side of the head.
Martinez throws a looping overhand right but Shade ducks down to avoid it.
Shade slips a jab and a cross from Martinez.
Martinez swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Good shot there by Martinez.
Martinez moves out of range of the leg kick from Shade.
Shade showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Martinez.
Shade keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Martinez fails to land with a series of punches.
Shade moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Shade showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Martinez.
Martinez missing with a left hand there. Shade was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Martinez pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Martinez ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Shade moves away.
Martinez throws a jab when Shade was well out of range.
A combination from Martinez does no damage.
Martinez connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Martinez misses with a wild combination.
Martinez looks gassed!

That's one minute gone in the round.
A good leg kick by Shade.
Martinez blocks a low kick nicely.
Shade stalks Martinez and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Martinez's face. Martinez staggers backwards, shaken.

It looks like Sergio Martinez has been cut.
Martinez is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Shade takes one to the chin there.
Shade swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Martinez looks to throw the jab but Shade is out of range.
Martinez avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Shade lands a jab to Martinez's midsection.
Shade takes one to the side of the head.

Shade darts in and clinches Martinez up against the cage.
Shade displaying some good clinch control by pressing Martinez up against the cage.
Martinez wants to break free but Shade has control.
Shade displaying some good clinch control by pressing Martinez up against the cage.

Shade has picked Martinez up - he's going for a ride! Shade dumps his opponent to the mat with a thud and settles into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Shade slips a nice elbow through Martinez's hands, connecting with Martinez's forehead.
Shade lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Martinez wants to stand back up but Shade manages to pass into side control.
Shade controlling the position from side mount.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Martinez can do anything to dispel that myth.
Martinez dodges the ground and pound from Shade.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Shade is putting a hurting on Martinez here, landing some big shots from side control.
Shade landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Sloppy strikes there by Shade.
Shade prevents Martinez from escaping the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Shade decides to take the fight back to the feet.
Shade scores with a nice right hand.
Martinez misses with a double jab
and Shade counters with an outside leg kick.
Martinez scores with a jab to the head.
Shade dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Martinez. That did some damage!
Shade uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Martinez.

Shade clinches up with Martinez and pushes him back against the cage.
Shade putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Martinez in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Martinez has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Shade lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Come on Shade - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Martinez is trying to break the clinch but Shade is controlling him.

Martinez is fighting off a takedown attempt but Shade is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Martinez to the mat. Martinez regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
Shade is stalling in the full guard.
Shade wants to control from the top but Martinez keeps moving.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Martinez preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Shade won't allow Martinez to get back to his feet.
Shade slips nicely into half guard.
Martinez wants to get back to his feet.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Shade looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Martinez with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Martinez really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Shade. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Shade is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Ground and pound from Shade.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Gabe Shade dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Sergio Martinez's cut.
That's time! Shade's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Shade darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Martinez is trying to stand back up but Shade is controlling him
Shade is trying to control the action in half guard but Martinez is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

Shade stands up and beckons Martinez to join him on the feet.
Shade dodges the punch combination from Martinez.
Shade fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Sergio Martinez seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Shade delivers a nice body kick.
Shade misses with a wild body shot.
An inside leg kick lands from Shade.
Martinez rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Shade moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Shade misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Martinez.
Martinez has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Shade throws a push kick but Martinez slaps the foot to one side.
Martinez throws a series of punches but Shade moves out of range.
Martinez needs to keep his hands up - Shade had a free shot at his head there.
Nice defenses there by Shade.
Shade lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
A swing and a miss from Shade.
A jab from Martinez misses.
Martinez circles away from the clinch attempt.
Shade misses the jab.
Sergio Martinez is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
A big right from Martinez misses.
Nice defenses there by Shade.
Martinez looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Martinez throws a body punch but Shade moves out of range.
Martinez stuffs the takedown.
Shade fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Martinez manages to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martinez jabs at Shade's body.
Shade misses with a low kick.
Martinez lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Shade looks to score with a jab to the body but Martinez is just out of range.
Martinez throws a series of punches but Shade moves out of range.
Martinez takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Shade is looking to land body kicks.
Martinez clobbers Shade with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Shade moves away from the strike by Martinez.
Martinez chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Shade can pounce on him.
Martinez fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Shade is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
A good leg kick by Shade.
Shade is looking to clinch but Martinez is avoiding it.
Shade lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A combination from Martinez does no damage.
Shade throws a combination. Martinez tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Shade misses with a looping left.
Good standup being displayed there by Martinez as he connects with a hook.
Shade connects with a body shot.
Shade swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Martinez throws an overhand right that lands on Shade's shoulder, as Shade tries to avoid the shot.
Martinez dips to his left and cracks Shade with an uppercut!
Shade just misses with a punch to the body.
Good leg kick by Shade there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Sergio Martinez is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Martinez misses the shot to the body.
A swing and a miss from Martinez.
Martinez bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Martinez falls off balance throwing a combination
and Shade counters with a nice leg kick.
Martinez fails to land with a series of punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Shade - that will leave a mark!
Shade looks to land a body kick but Martinez moved away.
Martinez swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Shade counters with a low kick, right behind Martinez 's knee.
Martinez throws a lazy right hand but Shade sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Shade explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Nice uppercut lands for Shade. That snapped Martinez's head back.
Shade throws a low kick, looking for Martinez's leg but Martinez calmly moves out of range.
Martinez throws a jab but it's blocked by Shade.
Shade moves out of range of the strikes.
Martinez uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Shade.
Shade attempts a low kick but it misses it's target.
Martinez throws a combination that misses

and Shade moves into the clinch.
Shade stalling in the clinch.
Shade has Martinez pressed against the cage, preventing Martinez from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Shade gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Martinez tries to circle away but Shade has him pinned against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Gabe Shade dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Sergio Martinez's cut.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

Shade is looking to slow Martinez down with leg kicks.
Martinez throws a right and a left that Shade avoids nicely.
Martinez's corner calls for a 1-2. Martinez obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Shade steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Martinez.
Shade pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Shade throws an overhand right that lands on Martinez's shoulder, as Martinez tries to avoid the shot.
Martinez throws a series of punches but Shade avoids them all with ease.
Shade fakes high and shoots in for a takedown but Martinez avoids it really well and circles away.
Martinez throws a left and a right that both miss
and Shade counters with a slapping leg kick.
Martinez throws a series of punches but Shade avoids them all with ease.

Shade fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Martinez, pushing him back against the cage.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
With the fighters up against the cage, Shade throws an elbow but misses.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Shade tries to land knees in the clinch but Martinez avoids the damage to the body.
Martinez is trying to break the clinch but Shade is controlling him.
Martinez wants to get back to striking at distance but Shade won't allow it.
Shade with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Martinez wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Shade has him pressed against the cage.
Martinez can't break the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knees in the clinch landing for Shade.
Shade trying to land knees to the body.
A frustrated look appears on Martinez's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Knees to the body from Shade.
Martinez can't break the clinch.
Martinez is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.

Shade manages to pull guard.
Martinez tries to stand but Shade is controlling from the bottom.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Shade is on top in guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Shade forces his way into half guard.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Shade throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Shade not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Shade working Martinez over with strikes.

Martinez kicks off Shade and gets to his feet.
Martinez misses with a wild combination.
Shade lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Shade misses with a looping right.
Shade gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Martinez.
Martinez throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Shade.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Shade tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Martinez was well out of range. Poor timing from Shade.
Martinez misses with an uppercut. Shade saw that one coming.
Shade throws a hook but Martinez avoids it easily.

Shade clinches up against the cage.
Shade wants a takedown but no success here.
Martinez wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Martinez looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
The referee is keeping an eye on Shade - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Shade has Martinez pressed against the cage, preventing Martinez from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Shade digs a right hand into Martinez's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Martinez's gas tank.
Shade prevents Martinez from breaking the clinch.

Shade jumps guard and drags Martinez to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Martinez would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Martinez must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.

Martinez wants to stand up, so he's looking to wriggle free of Shade's closed guard. He's half up but Shade has locked on to an arm! Uh oh! Shade pivots and extends the arm, Martinez falls face first to the mat and taps??... does he?? YES! He's tapping! Excellent counter grappling there by Shade! Well done that man!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:18 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Gabe Shade!