PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Jason Blanche (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Philip Matthews (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Blanche
vs
Matthews

180 cm
18
180 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

180 cm
23
178 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Dangerous GnP
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jason Blanche!
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, Philip Matthews!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Blanche looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Matthews!
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.

Blanche has hold of Matthews's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and Matthews manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Matthews can't escape the position.
Matthews taking shots to the head.
Matthews bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Blanche is trying to keep Matthews in close.

Matthews drops back looking for a heel hook - he quickly realises he's not going to get it but Blanche manages to dive on top of him before he can escape and now Matthews has Blanche in his guard.
Blanche working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.

Matthews is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Blanche is aware though and is defending well.

Matthews has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Blanche can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Blanche is working Matthews over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Matthews keeping moving, preventing Blanche from controlling successfully.

Blanche avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Matthews looks gassed!
Blanche is in close to Matthews's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Blanche sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Matthews's guard.
Blanche trying to control the action but Matthews is working from the bottom.
Blanche is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Blanche lands strikes from half guard.
Blanche 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.
Matthews is looking for a sweep. Blanche is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Blanche scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Blanche takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

Blanche is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Matthews sees it coming and defends easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Matthews looking for submissions off his back.
Matthews on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Matthews taking some punishment here, with Blanche in his half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Blanche lands a nice short elbow.
Matthews moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

Matthews looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Blanche trying to control but Matthews is working from the bottom.
Blanche scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Blanche is working Matthews over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Blanche's corner. There ya go! There ya go!

Matthews has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Blanche can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Blanche trying to control but Matthews is working from the bottom.
Blanche postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Blanche trying to control the position from guard on top but Matthews is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

Matthews had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Blanche defends it easily.
Blanche working some strikes from top position.
Blanche content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.

Matthews looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Blanche has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Blanche controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Blanche landing with the ground and pound.
Blanche lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Blanche stands and throws Matthews's legs to the side, diving into side control.
Blanche is chipping away with strikes.
Blanche lands some shots froms side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Blanche moving around in side mount but really he's just happy to control for now.

Blanche looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Matthews tries to get back to half guard but can't.
A lull in the action here.
Check out the look on Blanche's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jason Blanche dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Blanche changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Matthews looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Blanche advances to mount.
Blanche looking to finish Matthews with some ground and pound. This is bad for Matthews!
Matthews is in all sorts of trouble here.
Blanche lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.

Blanche has hold of Matthews's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and Matthews manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Blanche fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Blanche is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Matthews can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Blanche unloading with bombs!
Matthews tries to reverse the position but Blanche maintains control.
Blanche postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Matthews looks a forlorn figure.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Blanche postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Matthews looks a forlorn figure.
Matthews really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Matthews taking shots to the head.
Blanche looking to control and managing it successfully.
Blanche working away from the top, dropping strikes.

Blanche working for a guillotine from mount but Matthews is in no mood to give up.
Matthews keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Matthews in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blanche wants to control the pace but Matthews is squirming around nicely.
Jason Blanche overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Matthews tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Blanche landing shots from mount.
Blanche with shots to the head and body - Matthews looks very uncomfortable down there.
Blanche with good strikes from the mount here!

Blanche working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Matthews looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Blanche! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:41 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Jason Blanche!