PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Willy Fuentes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jimmy Young (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fuentes kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Big Willy Style - Will Smith. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Fuentes
vs
Young

178 cm
21
150 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

175 cm
20
158 lbs
8 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Willy Fuentes!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jimmy Young!
The judges for this bout are Columbo Gatti, Russell Pearce and Joseph Jones.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Young cracks a nice hook into Fuentes's ribs.
Young loads up on a big right hand but Fuentes slips the punch.
Young throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Young shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Young can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Fuentes is looking to escape.
Fuentes is looking to get to half guard.
Fuentes is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Young throws some wild stikes that Fuentes manages to avoid easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fuentes is wriggling around trying to escape.
Young tries to control but Fuentes wriggling away.
Young content just to control the position here.
Fuentes can't escape the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Young with shots to the head and body - Fuentes looks very uncomfortable down there.
Young controlling the pace for now.
Fuentes wants to control but Young is having none of it.
Fuentes working to try and regain half guard.
Young breaks from Fuentes's wrist control and lands an elbow.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Young trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Young working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Young lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Fuentes hang on?
Young tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Fuentes throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Young has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fuentes wants to control but Young is having none of it.
Fuentes on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Fuentes tries to get out of the position.
Young looking to control but Fuentes is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Young sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Young trying to control but he's not successful this time.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jimmy Young 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.

Young cracks Fuentes with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
A left lands for Young.
Fuentes tries to close the distance and clinch up but Young swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Fuentes moves forwards but Young connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Young punishes Fuentes's body with a nice straight punch.

Young gets the takedown into side control.
Fuentes tries to control but Young manages to take his back.
Young is working the ground and pound here and the referee is taking a close look at Fuentes. He must escape soon or this one will be stopped.

Fuentes is rocked!

It looks like Willy Fuentes has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Young controlling from the back.
Oh Fuentes is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Young punishes Fuentes with strikes from the back mount.
Fuentes is trying to stand back up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Young struggling to keep hold of the position.
Young softening up his opponent with strikes here.
Young trying to control momentarily.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Fuentes seems to have got his legs back now.
Fuentes is defending well here and trying to improve his position.
Young gets his hooks in and is throwing strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Young lands a punch to the side of the head from the back.
Young lands a good shot there. Fuentes covers up! Young smells blood and goes for the finish - the referee warns Fuentes to improve his position but he's not intelligently defending himself and the referee has no choice but to step in and end the fight! Young jumps to his feet and celebrates the important win with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:29 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jimmy Young! Jimmy Young retains his featherweight title!
Jimmy Young really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Rebel Pride Clothing. Everything in STOCK $5 logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.