PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Philip Farmery (ranked 780 p4p, 106 weight class) and Pierre St George (ranked 2349 p4p, 270 weight class). Farmery's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Bad Wolves-Zombie. Philip Farmery is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Farmery
vs
St George

189 cm
24
188 lbs
12 - 1 - 0

178 cm
21
170 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Urban Fighter
KAISER Nutrition - Q160

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Philip Farmery!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Pierre St George!
The judges for this bout are Chris Dean, Hugh Johnson and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Farmery looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
St George looks to score with a jab to the body but Farmery is just out of range.
Farmery scores with a punch to the head.
Farmery lands with a kick to the ribs.
Farmery misses with a head kick.
St George takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Farmery dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
St George will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Farmery lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
We've been hearing reports that Farmery has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Farmery moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Farmery with a poor takedown
and St George counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Farmery goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.

Farmery looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Farmery wants to control from the top but St George keeps moving.
Farmery throws a big elbow that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Farmery passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Farmery scores with punches from side control.
St George seems a little lost for a moment, as Farmery dominates the positioning.
Farmery connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused St George some visible discomfort.
St George is trying to control Farmery's posture but Farmery avoids it.
Farmery advances nicely into full mount.

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

St George defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Farmery.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St George tries to reverse the position but Farmery maintains control.
Farmery putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Farmery throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
St George keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
St George avoids a series of strikes thrown by Farmery.

Farmery looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
St George really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Farmery. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Farmery lands a nice shot to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

St George defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Farmery.
Farmery landing strikes, looking to finish!

The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Farmery has hold of St George's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and St George manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Farmery is in the full mount, landing strikes.

Farmery has hold of St George's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and St George manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Farmery throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Farmery working away from the top, dropping strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
St George tries to reverse the position but Farmery maintains control.
Farmery throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
St George is working to get back to half guard.
St George is squirming around, avoiding Farmery's attempts to control the action.
St George tries to reverse the position but Farmery maintains control.
Farmery fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Farmery looking for a guillotine from mount but St George is having none of it.

St George defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Farmery.
St George taking shots to the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Philip Farmery dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Farmery scores with a crisp jab that stopped St George in his tracks.
Farmery ducks down and throws a hook to the body but St George moves away.
Farmery misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
A nice side step and St George releases a counter shot to the body, but it doesn't find it's home.
Farmery pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Farmery tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but St George was well out of range. Poor timing from Farmery.
Philip Farmery is winning the standup battle so far.
St George gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Farmery throws a left and a right that both miss
and St George counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Farmery misses with a body shot.
St George leaves Farmery with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Farmery throws a combination that misses
and St George counters with a one-two to the body.
Farmery keeps St George at a distance using the push kick.
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!
Good standup being displayed there by Farmery as he connects with a hook.
St George tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Farmery was well out of range. Poor timing from St George.
Farmery clobbers St George with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Farmery shoots in for a takedown but St George shows good takedown defense.
St George walks into a left hand.
Farmery shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts St George as he jumps to the side.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Philip Farmery. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Farmery throws a series of strikes that have St George backpedaling.

St George is rocked!
Farmery looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Farmery lands a glancing blow to the side of St George's head.
St George is still on wobbly legs! Can Farmery finish him?
Philip Farmery seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Farmery lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Farmery drops St George with a straight right hand, right on the button! Farmery follows him down to the mat and pounds him out with hammerfists until the referee jumps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Philip Farmery!
Philip Farmery decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.