PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Rene Lafayette (ranked 1862 p4p, 3945 weight class) and Dan Averescu (ranked 256 p4p, 459 weight class). Lafayette comes to the cage accompanied by Erasure - Always. Averescu has chosen Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle as his entrance music. Dan Averescu has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Lafayette
vs
Averescu

179 cm
27
170
19 - 9 - 0

185 cm
33
185
14 - 16 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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 19 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Rene Lafayette!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Dan Averescu!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Albert Achterberg and Wagner Zegers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lafayette shoots in looking for a takedown but Averescu manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Lafayette's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.
Averescu rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Lafayette counters with a nice body shot.
Lafayette shoots for a double leg takedown but Averescu sprawls well. He's pushed Lafayette's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Averescu misses with a looping right.
Averescu misses the jab.
Averescu misses with a jab, cross combination.
Lafayette tries to counter with a takedown but Averescu is quick to defend against it.
A jab from Averescu misses.
Averescu throws a series of punches but Lafayette moves out of range.
Averescu throws a right hand that misses

and Lafayette counters by moving into the clinch.
Lafayette on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Averescu wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Lafayette has him pressed against the cage.
Averescu working hard to break the clinch.
Lafayette blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lafayette lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Averescu or not.
Averescu looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Averescu slowing the pace effectively.
The referee calls for Lafayette to work.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Lafayette takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Lafayette has Averescu pushed against the cage.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Averescu.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Averescu is trying to break the clinch but Lafayette is controlling him.

Lafayette breaks from the clinch.
Lafayette fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Averescu lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Averescu throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Lafayette instigates a clinch.
Averescu stalling the fight.
Lafayette is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Averescu is defending well for now.
Lafayette goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Averescu on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Averescu has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Averescu is trying to push Lafayette away but Lafayette has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.

Lafayette breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Lafayette lands a jab to the nose.
Dan Averescu is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Averescu misses with a body shot.

Lafayette darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Averescu tries to kick Lafayette off in order to stand up. Lafayette Avoids the leg push though and dives into side control.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
The referee asks Lafayette politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Lafayette prefers to stall for the moment though.
Averescu is pushing Lafayette's head away, looking to escape. Lafayette manages to hold on to the position though.
Lafayette is staying tight to Averescu's torso, preventing him from escaping.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Averescu gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there!
Lafayette tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Averescu really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Lafayette. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Lafayette punching from mount but Averescu doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Lafayette looking to control and managing it successfully.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Rene Lafayette dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Lafayette dives in and scores a takedown into Averescu's guard.
Lafayette keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Averescu's head.
Averescu looking to control.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Averescu can do anything to dispel that myth.
Lafayette pushes down on Averescu's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Lafayette performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Lafayette is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Averescu can do to turn this around?
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Lafayette throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Lafayette perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Lafayette passes to side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lafayette slows the pace down.
Sloppy strikes there by Lafayette.
Lafayette passes to full mount! That's big trouble for Averescu!
Lafayette looking to finish with strikes here!
Lafayette tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Lafayette 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.
Lafayette looking to finish with strikes here!
Lafayette controlling the position easily from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lafayette raining down hammerfists from mount.
Averescu's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
Averescu wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Lafayette.
Lafayette controlling from mount.
Lafayette's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Lafayette unloads with some shots from mount but Averescu bucks and avoids them well.
Lafayette controlling from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Averescu is in a horrible position here. Lafayette smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.

It looks like Dan Averescu has been cut.

Lafayette looking to isolate an arm here. Averescu doesn't see it coming and as Lafayette extends the arm, he's forced to tap out! Nice submission by Lafayette!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Rene Lafayette!
Rene Lafayette tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.