PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Bartlette James (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vivian Peters (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). James comes to the cage accompanied by radioactive. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

James
vs
Peters

188 cm
18
185 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

195 cm
26
196 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Knockout power

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 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Bartlette James!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Vivian Peters!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Albert Achterberg and Paul Aken.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

James has Peters up against the cage in a clinch.

Peters gets the body lock takedown. After a quick scramble, James regains guard.
Peters pushing down on James's thigh, trying to pass to half guard. He's managed it... Nice work.
James throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Peters thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed James's head.

Peters postures up and decides to stand up, from the half guard. The ref calls for James to stand up.

James drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
A bit of a lull in the action here.
You can see the frustration on Peters's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Peters manages to get back to half guard.
James is thwarting Peters's attempts to control the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Peters gets back to full guard.
James knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Peters on the ground.
Peters looking to control.
James wants to control from the top but Peters keeps moving.

Peters looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Peters can do anything to dispel that myth.
Peters keeping moving, preventing James from controlling successfully.
Peters wants to sweep here but James controlling him for the moment.

James avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Peters is on top in guard.
Peters is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Peters lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Peters connects with a couple of short punches.
Peters stands and throws James's legs to the side, diving into side control.
Peters working the ground and pound from side control.
Peters scores with a couple of short elbows.
James trying his best to control but Peters has mounted him.
Peters lands a nice shot to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Peters landing strikes from the mount.
Peters lands with some vicious ground and pound - can James hang on?
Peters scores with a couple of good head shots there.

James is rocked!
Peters has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
James is bucking up trying to escape but Peters cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Oh James is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Peters sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Peters loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have James scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Peters land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Peters stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Vivian Peters!