PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Howard Beale (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Saguro Takada (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Beale's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Mad As Hell. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Beale
vs
Takada

168 cm
20
148 lbs
7 - 6 - 0

165 cm
24
153 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 7 - 6 - 0, fighting out of New York, Howard Beale!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Saguro Takada!
The judges for this bout are Alyssa Summers, Reed Andrews and Chad Campbell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A nice inside leg kick there by Takada. That's going to slow Beale down.
Takada drops Beale with a right and a left! Takada comes rushing in but Beale regains his composure and manages to keep Takada in guard.

Beale is rocked!

It looks like Howard Beale has been cut.
Takada throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Beale works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Oh Beale is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Takada has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Takada stops Beale from standing up.
Beale seems to have got his legs back now.
Takada controls from within his opponent's guard.
Takada preventing the sweep.
Takada is stalling in the full guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Takada keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Beale's head.
Takada won't allow Beale to sweep him here.
Takada pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Beale is keeping the position for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Takada distracts Beale with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Takada stays in close to Beale's body and controls the position.
Beale is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Beale looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Takada is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Beale keeping moving, preventing Takada from controlling successfully.
Takada is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Takada looking to sit in guard and control but Beale gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Beale preventing the sweep.
Beale controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Takada looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Takada bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Beale's guard.
Takada looking to pass the guard.
Takada working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Takada passes Beale's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Beale is working for an escape here. He's hooked one of Takada's legs and he's managed to sneak out and take Takada's back!
Beale not allowing Takada to control his hands.
Beale trying to control momentarily.
Beale is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Takada is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Beale not allowing Takada to control his hands.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Takada controlling the position well but he knows he's in a bad spot.
Takada avoids the strikes from Beale.
Takada tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!

Beale is working for a guillotine from mount but Takada frees his head quite easily.
Takada is working to get back to half guard.
Beale avoids the attempt from Takada to control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Saguro Takada dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Howard Beale's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Beale tries to clinch but Takada is having none of it.

Beale shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Beale was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Takada tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Beale looking to control but Takada is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Takada tries to reverse the position but Beale maintains control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Beale can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Takada is looking to escape.
Takada really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Takada throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Beale landing punches.
Takada flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Takada can't escape the position.
Takada slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.

That's two 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.
Beale wants to control but Takada is keeping him busy.
Beale throwing shots but Takada is blocking nicely.
Beale blocks the strikes from Takada.
Takada gets full guard.
Takada manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Takada with good strikes from the mount here!
Takada lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Takada wants to control the pace but Beale is squirming around nicely.
Takada scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Beale?
Takada lands a big elbow.
Beale is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Takada in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Oooh a big shot lands for Takada! Beale is out! The ref dives in to save him from more punishment!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:53 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Saguro Takada!