PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Perry Charcobeau (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alexander Young (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Charcobeau comes into the arena with Fortunate Son blaring out of the sound system. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Charcobeau
vs
Young

177 cm
22
161 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

180 cm
33
160 lbs
15 - 22 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Perry Charcobeau!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 22 - 0, fighting out of London, Alexander Young!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, William Gold and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Young misses with a head kick.
Young throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Young throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
A slapping leg kick lands for Charcobeau.
Charcobeau scores with the left hand. Young knows he should have avoided that one.
Charcobeau thuds a left hand into Young's body.
Young tried to score with a low kick but Charcobeau checks it.
Charcobeau slips a straight right by Young.
Young throws out a loose jab but Charcobeau uses good head movement to avoid it.
A head kick misses from Young.
Young misses with a looping right.
Young on the wrong end of a nice jab.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Young misses with a series of wild punches.
Charcobeau lands a jab to the head.
Young swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
enabling Charcobeau to counter with a crisp jab.
Charcobeau swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Charcobeau thuds his shin into the meat of Young's side.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Charcobeau works the jab nicely.
Young misses with a lunging right hand
and Charcobeau counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Young walks into a left hand.
Young misses with a double jab.
Young will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Charcobeau with a jab.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Young looks to land a combination but Charcobeau avoids it well.
Young misses with the body kick
and Charcobeau counters with a nice body kick.
Young scores with a nice head shot.
Charcobeau keeps Young at a distance using the push kick.
Charcobeau getting the better of the striking in that exchange.

Charcobeau lands a big shot that drops Young! Can he finish him?

Young is rocked!
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.
Charcobeau slows down the pace of the fight, as he sits in guard.
Young is still in real trouble! Can Charcobeau finish him?
Young seems to have recovered his senses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Charcobeau works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Charcobeau scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Charcobeau trying to advance position but Young counters by regaining guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Charcobeau postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Charcobeau trying to control the position from guard on top but Young is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Charcobeau is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Charcobeau distracts Young with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Charcobeau passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Young takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Charcobeau lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Young down.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Charcobeau has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Young!
Charcobeau lands a nice shot to the head.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Charcobeau is in the full mount, landing strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
BOOM! Charcobeau connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Charcobeau can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Young is looking to escape.
Charcobeau landing punches.
Young is not a happy chappy… he wants out of there.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Charcobeau landing strikes, looking to finish!
Charcobeau is landing with some decent strikes but Young is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Charcobeau scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Young?
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Perry Charcobeau dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

An inside leg kick lands from Charcobeau.
Charcobeau avoids the head kick by Young.
Charcobeau lands with a slapping head kick.
Alexander Young seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Young takes one to the chin there.
Young throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Charcobeau punishes Young's body with a nice straight punch.
Charcobeau scores with a one two! Young had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
A punch combination from Young misses.
Charcobeau slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Young will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Charcobeau creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Charcobeau is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Young can do to turn this around?
Charcobeau lands a hook to the side of the head.
Charcobeau digs a right hand underneath Young's ribcage. Young let out a lung full of air as it connected.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Young can't break the clinch.
Charcobeau lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Charcobeau lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Young backwards.

Charcobeau breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Alexander Young is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Charcobeau scores with a jab to the body.
Perry Charcobeau is winning the standup battle so far.
Charcobeau lands an overhand right.
Perry Charcobeau is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Young takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Young throws a combination that misses
and Charcobeau counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Young is breathing heavily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Young swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Young misses with a double jab
and Charcobeau counters with a left to the body.
Charcobeau connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Charcobeau lands with a cross.
Charcobeau steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Young.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Charcobeau drops Young with a naaaaasty hook - Young is in real trouble here! Charcobeau dives in to side control and pounds out his opponent for a TKO victory! The crowd goes nuts!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:08 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Perry Charcobeau!
After winning the bout, Perry Charcobeau thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.