PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Enzo The Little Italian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chuck Farley (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The Little Italian comes to the cage accompanied by la dibla. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

The Little Italian
vs
Farley

189 cm
23
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

188 cm
20
194 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Big heart

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Powerful

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 Las Vegas, Enzo The Little Italian!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Chuck Farley!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Daniel Franklin and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The Little Italian tries to clinch but Farley moves out of range.
The Little Italian misses with a hook. Farley ducked under it nicely.
Farley throws a lazy right hand but The Little Italian sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Farley throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nice sprawl there from The Little Italian as Farley shoots in.
Farley lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but The Little Italian circles away quickly and effectively.
Farley keeps the fight on the outside.
An inside leg kick lands from The Little Italian.
The Little Italian tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Farley paws at him with a jab and circles away.
The Little Italian is looking to clinch but Farley is avoiding it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Farley looks to land a combination but The Little Italian avoids it well.

The Little Italian moves into the clinch.
The Little Italian looking to throw knees to the head but Farley is blocking nicely.
The Little Italian looking to throw knees to the head but Farley is blocking nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Farley is trying to break free.
The Little Italian tries a knee to the head but Farley blocks it.
Farley is trying to break the clinch but The Little Italian has him pressed against the cage.
Farley wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but The Little Italian has him pressed against the cage.
Farley wants a takedown but no success here.
The Little Italian connects with a nasty looking knee right to Farley's face.
Farley wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
The Little Italian looks to throw an elbow but misses.
The Little Italian unloads a knee to the mid-section.
The Little Italian creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Farley's defenses.
The Little Italian with an attempt at a knee that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
The Little Italian lands a knee to the body.
The Little Italian lands a knee to the head.
The Little Italian landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The Little Italian tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
The Little Italian trying to land knees to the body.
The Little Italian with a knee to the head.
Farley has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. The Little Italian is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Enzo The Little Italian has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Chuck Farley.
The Little Italian unloads a knee to the mid-section.
The Little Italian gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
The Little Italian prevents a takedown attempt there.
Farley is trying to break the clinch but The Little Italian is controlling him.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Little Italian using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Farley wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
The Little Italian has Farley pressed against the cage, preventing Farley from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Come on The Little Italian - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
The Little Italian comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Farley is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
The Little Italian slowing the pace effectively.
The Little Italian creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Farley's defenses.
Farley blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
The Little Italian trying to land knees to the body.
Farley takes an elbow to the forehead.
Farley tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.

Farley jumps into guard, dragging The Little Italian to the mat.
Farley is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
The Little Italian knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Farley on the ground.
The Little Italian trying to control but Farley is working from the bottom.
Farley avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
The Little Italian with a flurry of punches that miss.
Farley wants to sweep but no luck.
Farley keeping moving, preventing The Little Italian from controlling successfully.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Farley holds on and takes a little breather.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Enzo The Little Italian dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Farley misses with a two punch combination.
Chuck Farley seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
The Little Italian tries to clinch but Farley moves out of range.
The Little Italian throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Farley.
Farley shoots for a double leg takedown but The Little Italian sprawls well. He's pushed Farley's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
The Little Italian is looking to clinch.
Farley throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Enzo The Little Italian is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Farley dives in and grabs The Little Italian's left leg, looking for a takedown. The Little Italian pushes down on Farley's head and hops out.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Farley misses with a few strikes there.
The Little Italian connects with a high kick.
The Little Italian is looking to clinch but Farley is avoiding it.
The Little Italian tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A decent looking cross lands there for Farley.
A head kick from The Little Italian lands but Farley takes it in his stride.
Farley avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
The Little Italian tries to clinch up but Farley circles away and keeps his distance.
The Little Italian is looking to clinch.
The Little Italian throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
Nice sprawl there from The Little Italian as Farley shoots in.
Enzo The Little Italian has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Chuck Farley.
The Little Italian tries to clinch but Farley moves out of range.
Farley misses with a double jab.
The Little Italian slips a straight right by Farley.
Farley rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but The Little Italian moves out of range and avoids them all easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The Little Italian doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
The Little Italian slips a straight right by Farley.
Farley scores with a jab. The Little Italian acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Farley works over The Little Italian's head and body with a nice combination.
The Little Italian tries to clinch up.

The Little Italian gets a clinch.
Farley blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
The Little Italian lands a good knee to the midsection. Farley won't want to take too many of those.
Farley lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, The Little Italian just misses with a elbow thrown towards Farley's brow.
Farley tries to break free but The Little Italian pushes him back against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Little Italian scores a nice knee to the body.

Farley manages to break the clinch.
The Little Italian tries to close the distance and clinch but Farley swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Farley swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Farley tries to bum rush The Little Italian with a series of wild strikes but The Little Italian uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Donk. The Little Italian catches Farley right on the button with a cross.
Farley avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Farley looks to land a combination but The Little Italian avoids it well.
Farley looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Farley swats away the attempt to clinch by The Little Italian.
Farley looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Farley jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.

Farley bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The Little Italian tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Farley wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
The Little Italian wants to get back to his feet but Farley drags him back down.
Farley is putting a hurting on The Little Italian here, landing some big shots from side control.
The Little Italian looks to move to half guard but instead Farley has passed into mount! Damn!
The Little Italian wants to control but Farley is having none of it.
Farley dominating with strikes here.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Farley is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, The Little Italian has managed to escape the submission attempt.
Farley prevents The Little Italian from getting the reversal.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Enzo The Little Italian will probably get the nod.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.

Farley shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Farley showed some decent athleticism there.
The Little Italian is looking to get back to full guard here but Farley has managed to pass to side control instead.
Farley trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The Little Italian is working to get back to half guard.
The Little Italian in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Farley has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
BOOM! Farley connects with a massive shot to the dome!
The Little Italian is in all sorts of trouble here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Farley looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Farley controlling the pace for now.

Farley is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, The Little Italian has managed to escape the submission attempt.
The Little Italian wants to hold on but Farley pushes him away.

Farley is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. The Little Italian is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. The Little Italian flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Farley anticipates the leg and manages to get behind The Little Italian and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Farley slips an arm under The Little Italian chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Farley has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Farley is squeezing on The Little Italian like an anaconda would it's prey. The Little Italian fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:59 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Chuck Farley!