PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tim Augustine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tate Perkins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Augustine comes to the cage accompanied by The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Augustine
vs
Perkins

193 cm
19
208 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

191 cm
22
205 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent knees
Solid chin

BioPharm Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tim Augustine!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tate Perkins!
The judges for this bout are Franklyn Lucas, Jorge Garcia and Reed Andrews.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Perkins moves in looking to clinch but Augustine pushes him off.
Augustine pulls out of a head kick attempt.
The fight stays on the outside here - Perkins looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Perkins tries to clinch up.
Augustine lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Perkins backs up against the cage.
Augustine avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Perkins moves into the clinch successfully.
Perkins pushes off an fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Perkins is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Augustine avoiding damage as Perkins throws knees to the body.
Augustine lands a body shot.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Perkins using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Augustine has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Perkins avoids a wild elbow strike from Augustine.
Augustine wants a takedown but no success here.
Nice body punch from Augustine.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Augustine lands a right hand.
Perkins throws a knee to the head but misses.
Perkins landing knees to the head.
Perkins with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Perkins looks gassed!
Perkins takes a shot to the head.

Augustine turns his back and goes for a hip toss. It's a bit messy but it gets the job done and Augustine manages to end up in side control.
Perkins takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
An elbow from Augustine crashes against the mat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Augustine postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Augustine working the ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Augustine throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Perkins defending against the ground and pound.
Augustine wants to lay and pray for a moment but Perkins keeps working.
Augustine is chipping away with strikes.
Sloppy strikes there by Augustine.

Augustine tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Augustine has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Augustine working the ground and pound but Perkins is defending the strikes.
Augustine throwing strikes but Perkins manages to buck up and roll into a nice reversal - now he's on top in side control!
Augustine is trying to improve his position.
Augustine is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked Perkins off and has taken his back!
Augustine missing with strikes from the back.
Augustine tries to keep control of the position but Perkins is staying busy.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Perkins fending off the submission attempt from Augustine.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Augustine throwing lazy shots from the back mount that aren't doing any damage.
Augustine is not going to allow Perkins to sit and survive in this position.
Perkins holding both Augustine 's hands and preventing any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Even with his hooks in, Augustine manages to miss with strikes from the back.
Augustine missing with strikes.
Perkins covering up well under a barage of strikes.
Perkins has his hands over his head blocking the strikes from Augustine.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Perkins has the hand control, trying to stop the rear naked choke.

Augustine is looking to finish the fight by rear naked choke. Perkins knows exactly what he's got planned though, so he's defending well. Maybe a few strikes would soften Perkins for a finish.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tim Augustine dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Augustine darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Augustine winds up and cracks Perkins with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Augustine looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Augustine not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Augustine 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.
Augustine works his foot free and advances to mount.
Augustine dominating with strikes here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Perkins wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Augustine.
Augustine landing punches.
Perkins is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Perkins is squirming around, avoiding Augustine's attempts to control the action.
Perkins really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Augustine. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Perkins holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Augustine tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Perkins is wriggling around trying to escape.
Augustine scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Perkins?

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Augustine looking to ground and pound but Perkins is blocking nicely.
BOOM! Augustine connects with a massive shot to the dome!

Augustine has control of Perkins's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Perkins regains control of the situation pretty easily.
Perkins gets back to half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Augustine is trying for a guillotine from the top but the pressure isn't in the right place so Perkins is just riding it out for now. Augustine eventually gives up the hold.
Augustine sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Perkins defending well though.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Augustine is trying to work for a kimura but Perkins is defending well.
Perkins controlling the leg, holding on to half guard.
Augustine thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Perkins's head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Augustine passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Perkins!
Augustine in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Perkins tries to buck Augustine off but he can't manage it.

Augustine is in full mount, looking to secure a guillotine but Perkins is surviving well by controlling Augustine's body position as best he can.
Augustine thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tim Augustine dominated that second round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! This is the final round!

Perkins tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Perkins tries to close the distance and clinch but Augustine swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Perkins throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Augustine throws a shot from downtown. Perkins moves away and avoids it.
Tim Augustine is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Augustine keeps the fight on the outside.
Nice defenses there by Augustine.
Augustine keeps the fight on the outside.
Perkins fails in his attempt to clinch.
Augustine throws a right hand that Perkins ducks under and follows up with a left that Perkins also avoids with ease.
Perkins tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Augustine paws at him with a jab and circles away.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Perkins tries to clinch up.
Augustine throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Perkins walks into a straight right hand from Augustine.
The fight stays on the outside here - Perkins looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Perkins tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Perkins is looking to take this fight into the clinch.

Perkins moves into the clinch.
Augustine avoiding damage as Perkins throws knees to the body.
Perkins blocks an uppercut.
Augustine misses with a short punch on the inside.
Augustine jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Perkins walks away with a smile on his face. Augustine gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
A combination from Augustine does no damage.
Perkins tries to close the distance and clinch up but Augustine swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Perkins fails in his attempt to clinch.
Perkins is looking to land body kicks.
Perkins tries to clinch up but Augustine circles away and keeps his distance.
Augustine cracks Perkins with a good jab.
Perkins fails in his attempt to clinch.
Augustine misses with the combination.
Augustine swats away the attempt to clinch by Perkins.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Perkins wants to clinch.
Perkins defending well as Augustine loads up on a big left hand.
Augustine tests Perkins's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Perkins fails in his attempt to clinch.
Perkins wants to clinch.
Augustine closes this distance looking for a takedown but Perkins circles away.
Augustine avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Augustine will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Perkins moves in looking to clinch but Augustine pushes him off.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Augustine gets a takedown into half guard.

Perkins is defending against the submission attempts here by Augustine.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

Perkins kicks Augustine off and gets back to his feet.
Perkins tries to clinch but Augustine is having none of it.
Augustine looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Perkins is fending him off so far but Augustine persists. Nope, Perkins circles away and we're back to standing.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Tim Augustine. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Perkins tries to clinch but Augustine is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Augustine misses with a few strikes there.
Perkins wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Perkins lands a lovely overhand right.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Augustine swats away the attempt to clinch by Perkins.
Perkins tries to clinch but Augustine moves out of range.
Augustine throws the left hand but Perkins avoids the punch easily.
Perkins fails in his attempt to clinch.
Perkins uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Augustine.
Tate Perkins has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Augustine swats away the attempt to clinch by Perkins.

Perkins gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Perkins holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Perkins's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Perkins taking a breather.
Perkins gets underhooks to prevent Augustine's takedown attempt.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Tate Perkins.
Well Augustine has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Franklyn Lucas scores the fight for Tim Augustine!
Judge Jorge Garcia scores the fight for Tim Augustine!
Judge Reed Andrews scores the fight for Tim Augustine!

Tim Augustine wins by unanimous decision!