PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Blade Wolf (ranked 24830 p4p, 5358 weight class) and Robin Hood (ranked 615 p4p, 518 weight class). Robin Hood will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Wolf
vs
Hood

172 cm
19
170
0 - 3 - 0

185 cm
19
170
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

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 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Blade Wolf!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Robin Hood!
The judges for this bout are Robert Twigg, Chris Downing and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Wolf will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Hood wants to counter with a clinch but Wolf pushes him away.
Wolf fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Hood misses with the combination.
A slow jab from Wolf misses its intended target.
Wolf misses with a looping left.
Hood swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Wolf misses with a body kick.
Hood wants to counter the offense by Wolf and move into the clinch position.
Sloppy strikes from Hood. Those never looked like landing.

Hood moves into range and clinches up with Wolf.
I was talking to Wolf's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Wolf scores with an uppercut up the middle.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hood takes an elbow to the forehead.
Wolf goes for a takedown in the clinch but Hood prevents it.
Hood takes a shot to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wolf misses with the head strike.
Wolf misses with a short punch on the inside.
Wolf throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Hood stalling against the cage.
Hood blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Hood working hard to break the clinch.
Hood avoids a wild elbow strike from Wolf.

Hood breaks the clinch.

Wolf tries to keep at a distance but Hood has taken the fight into the clinch.
Wolf misses with a body punch.
Wolf swings wildly with an uppercut but Hood uses good head movement to avoid it.
Wolf swings wildly with an uppercut but Hood uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wolf misses with some punches.
Hood slows down the pace here.
Wolf swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hood drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Wolf misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Hood.
Wolf working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Wolf throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Wolf.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Wolf throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Hood.
A nice right hand lands inside from Wolf.

Wolf wants the takedown. Hood is fighting it off but Wolf persists and manages to bring the fight to the ground, ending up in Hood's guard against the cage.
Wolf trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Hood working a defensive guard here.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Wolf accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Hood throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.
Wolf loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Hood can do anything to dispel that myth.
Wolf passes into half guard.
Wolf is figuring out what he wants to do next.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wolf seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Hood for as long as he can get away with.
Hood is trying to maintain the position but Wolf is very close to passing his half guard.

Wolf is working for a submission of some sort.
Wolf content to control rather than advance.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Blade Wolf dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Good shot there by Wolf.
Wolf throws a push kick but Hood slaps the foot to one side.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Wolf.
Wolf wants to lay and pray for a moment but Hood keeps working.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hood tries to slip a leg under to move to half guard but Wolf presses down on the leg and jumps into full mount!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wolf controlling from mount.

Wolf throws some shoulder strikes here and then postures up. Oh, he's gone for an armbar! Hood has his hands clasped together but Wolf breaks the hold and Hood is forced to tap! This one is aaaaaaaaaaall over! That was lightning fast by Wolf!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Blade Wolf!