PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between TJ Welsh (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Perry White (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Welsh comes to the cage accompanied by Lets Have A War. TJ Welsh has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Welsh
vs
White

190 cm
30
199 lbs
16 - 17 - 1

189 cm
24
195 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

Powerful takedowns
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 16 - 17 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, TJ Welsh!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Perry White!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Gregory Folan and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Welsh gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows White to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Welsh is pulling down on White's head to control his posture.

Welsh wriggles free and stands up.

Welsh closes the distance and clinches.

Welsh's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

Welsh has White up against the cage in a clinch.

White has Welsh pressed up against the cage. He's trying to work for a single leg takedown. White pulls back from the cage and twists to the side, sending Welsh tumbling to the mat - White dives into Welsh's guard.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
White trying to move into half guard but instead Welsh has managed to sweep!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Welsh preventing the sweep.

Welsh stands and steps away. White gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
White takes a jab right on the kisser.

Welsh gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Welsh pulls White in close to prevent any damage.
Welsh seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
Welsh keeping moving, preventing White from controlling successfully.
Welsh looking to hit a scissor sweep but White is one step ahead there.
Welsh keeping full guard, as White tries to pass.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
White preventing the sweep.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Welsh holds on and takes a little breather.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
White trying to control but Welsh is working from the bottom.

The referee has motioned to the fighters to stand back up. He just wasn't happy with the level of activity.
White circles away from the clinch attempt.
White keeps the fight on the outside.

Welsh gets the takedown into side control.
White gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!

Welsh wants to finish this one by submission but White is holding onto his waist, trying to prevent any attacks from Welsh.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Welsh looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.

Welsh stands up from the dominant position, so we're back on the feet.

Welsh shoots in looking for a single leg takedown. White is trying to defend but Welsh finishes it well and ends up in half guard. Let's see if he can advance position further.
Welsh is figuring out what he wants to do next.
White felt the need to train up his defensive grappling in the buildup to the fight. Presumably he was expecting to be in a difficult position like this, so let's see if he can get out of it.
White wants to get back to full guard.
Welsh keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.

Welsh is working for a submission of some sort.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
White moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

Welsh stands up from White's guard - Welsh perhaps looking for a knockout.

Welsh scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
White is trying to improve his position.

Welsh decides to stand back up. Welsh steps back and let's White get back to his feet.

White closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
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!
White missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

TJ Welsh dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Welsh fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with White, pushing him back against the cage.
A hook to the body from Welsh.
Welsh working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Welsh unloads a knee to the mid-section. White lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Knees in the clinch landing for Welsh.
Welsh lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Welsh with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Welsh unloads a knee to the mid-section. White lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Welsh connects with a nasty looking knee right to White's face.

It looks like Perry White has been cut.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Welsh takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Welsh unloads a knee to the mid-section. White lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Welsh landing knees to the head.
Welsh landing knees to the body.
White is breathing heavily.
Welsh unloads a knee to the mid-section.

That's one minute gone in the round.
White being controlled against the cage.
Welsh working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.

Welsh's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

Welsh drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.

Welsh stands up and beckons White to his feet.
Welsh is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that White can do to turn this around?

Welsh shoots in for a takedown and gets it.

White is rocked!

Welsh is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! White is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). TJ Welsh!
TJ Welsh spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.