PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Titan Xavier Burns (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tim Hansen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Burns comes to the cage accompanied by Conor McGregor UFC Entrance Music - Foggy Dew / Hypnotize Remix. Hansen comes into a darkened arena with his song building. AC/DC - Big Gun kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Xavier Burns
vs
Hansen

177 cm
26
150 lbs
3 - 0 - 1

178 cm
39
155 lbs
25 - 19 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Namunamu Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Titan Xavier Burns!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 25 - 19 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Tim Hansen!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, Gregory Folan and William Peck.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Burns avoids a punch combination nicely.
Burns tries to counter by moving into the clinch but Hansen manages to circle out of the way.
Hansen misses with a few strikes there.
Hansen throws a leg kick but Burns sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Hansen misses with the combination.
Burns lands a nice looking kick to the body. Hansen takes a step back to recover.
Burns tries a head kick but it misses.

Burns gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Burns with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Burns using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Hansen has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
I was talking to Burns's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
With the fighters up against the cage, Burns throws an elbow but misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Hansen has Burns pressed up against the cage. He's trying to work for a single leg takedown. Hansen pulls back from the cage and twists to the side, sending Burns tumbling to the mat - Hansen dives into Burns's guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Burns utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.

The fighters are working up against the cage. Burns manages to wriggle his way back to his feet, so the fighters are now clinched against the cage.
Hansen managing to block the knees to the body from Burns.
Burns pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Hansen takes an elbow to the temple.
Burns throws an elbow that misses.
Burns pushes off an throws an elbow but Hansen leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Burns trying to land knees to the body.
Burns throws an elbow that misses.
Burns lands a damaging elbow.
Hansen tries to score a body lock takedown but Burns shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
Burns lands with a right to the head.
Burns displaying some good clinch control by pressing Hansen up against the cage.
Burns misses with a knee strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Burns throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Burns misses with a knee strike.
Burns tries a knee to the head but Hansen blocks it.
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!
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Burns just misses with a elbow thrown towards Hansen's brow.
Hansen takes an elbow to the forehead.
Burns lands an elbow just above Hansen 's eye.
Hansen managing to block the knees to the body from Burns.
Hansen is trying to drag Burns to the mat but Burns just about manages to keep his footing. He used the cage to his advantage there.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Burns obliges.
Burns lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Burns.
Hansen on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hansen tries to break the clinch but Burns is controlling the position.
Burns lands a damaging elbow.
Hansen blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Hansen takes a knee right on the jaw!
Burns gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Hansen.
Titan Xavier Burns has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Tim Hansen.
Burns throws an elbow but it misses.
Burns gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

Hansen lands a takedown into guard.
Burns is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Hansen is controlling him.
Burns pulls Hansen in close to prevent any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Burns continues to stall.
Burns wants to get back to his feet but Hansen is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Hansen with a flurry of punches that miss.
Hansen is fighting to break Burns's control of his arms but Burns is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Hansen wants to pass the guard but Burns is keeping the position.
Hansen wants to control from the top but Burns keeps moving.

The referee has motioned to the fighters to stand back up. He just wasn't happy with the level of activity.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Titan Xavier Burns 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.

Hansen pivots, looking for a leg kick but Burns is out of range and Hansen settles back down.

Hansen gets tackled into the cage by Burns. Burns maintains the clinch.
Hansen blocks an elbow strike.
Burns throws a knee to the head but misses.
Burns throws an elbow but it misses.
Burns throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Burns takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Burns throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Hansen takes an elbow to the temple.
Burns throws an elbow that misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Burns with a knee to the head.
Burns is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Hansen is defending well for now.
Burns lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Hansen drops down looking for an ankle pick but Burns pulls his leg out and moves away.
Hansen throws a right hand that Burns ducks under and follows up with a left that Burns also avoids with ease.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hansen misses with a jab, cross combination.
Burns moves out of range as Hansen throws a body kick.
Burns is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Hansen can do to turn this around?
Hansen throws a head kick that half lands.
Hansen tried to score with a low kick but Burns checks it.

Burns moves into range and clinches up with Hansen.
Burns missing with knees to the body.
Burns prevents the takedown attempt.
Burns tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Burns scores a nice knee to the body.
Burns lands a nice elbow.
Burns misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Hansen.
Hansen drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Titan Xavier Burns has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Tim Hansen.
Hansen blocks an elbow strike from Burns.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hansen managing to block the knees to the body from Burns.
Burns unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Hansen is breathing heavily.
Burns throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Burns lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Burns lands an elbow just above Hansen 's eye.
Hansen blocks an elbow strike from Burns.
Burns throws a knee to the head but misses.
Burns looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Hansen on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Burns.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Burns just misses with a elbow thrown towards Hansen's brow.
Hansen takes an elbow to the temple.
Burns pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Hansen is looking to take this one to the mat.
Titan Xavier Burns has scored more points in the clinch so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Burns with a knee to the head.
Hansen is looking to take this one to the mat.
Burns gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Burns lands a knee to the head.

Hansen is rocked!
Burns landing knees to the body.
Hansen is still on wobbly legs! Can Burns finish him?
Hansen takes an elbow to the temple.
Hansen tries for a takedown but Burns manages to get underhooks.
Burns connects with a knee to the head.
Burns lands a nice knee to the body.
Burns lands an elbow that stopped Hansen in his tracks for a moment.
Hansen is pressed against the cage. Burns pushes back and unleashes a big elbow that really hurts Hansen! Two more big strikes from Burns and Hansen crumples to the mat and taps out furiously due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:40 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Titan Xavier Burns!
Post fight, Titan Xavier Burns stared into the camera and said 'I changed my whole life. Canada is awesome, thank you to my family..I didn't know I had family out here, but this is the best and I have my life together. Thank you everybody for helping my dream come true.'.