PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between King Justus (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Louis Freese (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Justus comes to the cage accompanied by Villain. Louis Freese has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Justus
vs
Freese

190 cm
26
185 lbs
9 - 6 - 1

183 cm
27
185 lbs
8 - 5 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Brown Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, King Justus!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Louis Freese!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Elvis Blanc and Ian Loll.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Freese thows a body shot but no joy.
Freese circles away from the clinch attempt.
Justus fails in his attempt to clinch.
Justus tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Freese changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Justus tries to avoid it but Freese manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Justus to the ground. Justus escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Justus with a jab.
King Justus seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Justus will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Justus tries to clinch but Freese is having none of it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Justus doesn't manage to clinch there - Freese circles away.
Justus wants to clinch up but Freese keeps it at a distance.
Justus tries to bum rush Freese with a series of wild strikes but Freese uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Justus tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Freese paws at him with a jab and circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Justus punishes Freese's body with a nice straight punch.
Freese shoots in but Justus avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Freese circles away from the clinch attempt.
Freese takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Justus fails in his attempt to clinch.
Justus tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Freese blocks the body kick.
Justus fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Justus tries to clinch there but Freese circles away.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Justus throws a head kick but Freese moves out of range.
Justus lands a nice leg kick that just misses Freese's sensitive parts.
Justus scores with a body shot.
Freese blocks a head kick by Justus.
Justus tries to clinch but Freese moves out of range.
Justus tries to clinch up but Freese circles away and keeps his distance.
Justus throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Freese.
Freese scores with a jab. Justus acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Justus wants to clinch.
Freese avoids a kick to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Justus wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Freese keeps the fight on the outside.
Justus is looking to clinch but Freese is avoiding it.
Justus tries to clinch there but Freese circles away.
Justus tries to clinch but Freese moves out of range.
Justus fails to land with a series of punches.
Justus slips a straight right by Freese.

Freese closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Justus did well to prevent Freese getting side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Justus tries to get to full guard but Freese has control of the leg.
Justus is looking to control Freese's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Justus avoid being mounted?

Freese wants to work for an arm triangle but Justus is really keeping half guard well and defending the submission attempt.

Freese is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Freese stops Justus from getting back to his feet.
Justus gets back to full guard.

Freese is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Freese looks gassed!
Freese stopping the sweep attempt from Justus.

Freese thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

King Justus dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Justus tries to bum rush Freese with a series of wild strikes but Freese uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Justus displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Justus lands a two punch combo.
Justus lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Justus tries to clinch up.
Justus tries a head kick but it misses.
Justus fails in his attempt to clinch.
Justus wants to clinch.
Freese dodges the punch combination from Justus.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Freese circles away from the clinch attempt.
King Justus is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Freese circles away from the clinch attempt.
Justus throws a leg kick which misses Freese's front leg but catches the back leg as Freese tries to avoid it.
Justus throws a right and a left that both miss.
Freese takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Freese misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
No luck for Freese with that takedown attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Freese tries for a takedown but Justus sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Freese avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Justus is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Justus doesn't manage to clinch there - Freese circles away.
Freese looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
King Justus has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Louis Freese.
Justus missing with a left hand there. Freese was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Justus falls off balance throwing a combination

and Freese counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Justus is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.

Freese has gone for a leg lock! Justus slips out almost immediately though and dives into Freese's guard.

Justus got a little sloppy there for a moment and Freese has worked his way into a loose triangle - can he finish it?! No, Justus has managed to get both his arms back between Freese's legs - danger averted.
Freese is breathing heavily.
Justus stands and throws Freese's legs to the side, diving into side control.
Justus remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Justus works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Freese is not content to let Justus control the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Justus has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.
Justus tries to clinch up.
Justus tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Justus fails in his attempt to clinch.
Justus tries to clinch

and Freese counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Justus's guard now.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Justus pushes Freese off and scrambles back to his feet.
Justus uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Freese has time to react.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that King Justus will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! This is the final round!

Justus tries to clinch there but Freese circles away.
Justus misses with a hook to the body

and Freese counters with a nice double leg into half guard.

Freese looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.
Justus is looking to control Freese's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Justus avoid being mounted?
Justus is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Freese is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.

Freese is looking for a kimura but Justus is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Freese to get the leverage.

Freese is working for a kimura but Justus is defending it quite comfortably.
Freese takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Justus moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Justus seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Justus looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Justus trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Freese stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Justus swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Justus looking to hit a scissor sweep but Freese is one step ahead there.

Freese drops back looking for a heel hook - he quickly realises he's not going to get it but Justus manages to dive on top of him before he can escape and now Freese has Justus in his guard.
Justus is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Louis Freese has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Justus has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.

Justus gets to his feet and steps away from his opponent.
Justus tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Freese takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Justus fails in his attempt to clinch.
Freese scores with a nice strike.
Justus scores with a one two! Freese had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Justus moves in looking to clinch but Freese pushes him off.
Justus throws a combination that misses
and Freese counters with a nice uppercut.
Justus tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Freese throws a combination that misses
and Justus counters with a solid body kick.
Justus throws a head kick that half lands.
Justus tries to clinch up.
Justus tries to score with a low kick but Freese moves his leg out of the way.
Justus tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Freese paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Freese closes the distance and clinches up with Justus, looking for a takedown. Freese pushes Justus against the cage but Justus circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Justus goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Justus rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Freese moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Freese looks to land a left hand but Justus moved out of range nicely.
Freese circles away from the clinch attempt.
Justus tries to clinch but Freese moves away
enabling Freese to counter with a crisp jab.
Justus throws a sloppy head kick and Freese moves out of range easily.
Good leg kick by Justus there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Freese keeps the fight on the outside.
Justus lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.

And that's the end of the fight!
King Justus showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Justus, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Gregory Folan scores the fight 30:27
Judge Elvis Blanc scores the fight 30:27
Judge Ian Loll scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... King Justus!