PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dan Sinclair (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and D Botwin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sinclair
vs
Botwin

186 cm
22
205 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

188 cm
19
210 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Improved boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

S.W.A.T.

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dan Sinclair!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, D Botwin!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Chris Downing and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Botwin showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Sinclair.
Sinclair tries to bum rush Botwin with a series of wild strikes but Botwin uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Sinclair throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sinclair changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Botwin tries to avoid it but Sinclair manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Botwin to the ground. Botwin escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Sinclair misses with a series of wild punches.
A combination from Sinclair does no damage.
Botwin slips a straight right by Sinclair.
Nice sprawl there from Sinclair as Botwin shoots in.
Sinclair closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Botwin throws a right and a left that Sinclair avoids nicely.
Nice sprawl there from Sinclair as Botwin shoots in.
Sinclair will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Botwin moves away from the strike by Sinclair.
Botwin throws a right and a left that Sinclair avoids nicely.
Sinclair falls off balance throwing a combination
and Botwin counters with a three punch combo that has Sinclair backing up. Sinclair nods at Botwin to acknowledge the strikes.
Sinclair moves out of range of the body kick from Botwin.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Botwin throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Botwin shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Botwin was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Sinclair is breathing heavily.
Sinclair is controlling an arm, preventing Botwin from taking his back. Although keeping him in mount is no better to be honest.

Botwin is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, Sinclair has managed to escape the submission attempt.
Sinclair is squirming around, avoiding Botwin's attempts to control the action.
Botwin avoids the attempt from Sinclair to control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Botwin throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Botwin lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Botwin tries to control but Sinclair wriggling away.
Sinclair tries to hold on but Botwin pushes him away.
Botwin punching from mount but Sinclair doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Botwin throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Sinclair because Botwin loaded up on that one.
Sinclair is squirming around, avoiding Botwin's attempts to control the action.

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

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Botwin tries to control but Sinclair wriggling away.
Sinclair tries to hold on but Botwin pushes him away.
Sinclair tries to control Botwin's body but Botwin pushes him off. Sinclair squirms to his side and now Botwin has his back!
Sinclair holding on to Botwin's left wrist, preventing the choke.
Sinclair tries to escape the position.

That's four 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.
Sinclair staying busy and making it hard for Botwin to control.
Sinclair breaks Botwin's hooks off and manages to turn into his guard.
Sinclair preventing the sweep.

Sinclair gets to his feet and steps away from his opponent.
Sinclair does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Botwin misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Sinclair.
Sinclair swinging wilding here.

Botwin gets the takedown into side control.
Botwin 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.
Sinclair prevents Botwin from improving position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

D Botwin 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.

Sinclair goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Sinclair throws a right hand that Botwin ducks under and follows up with a left that Botwin also avoids with ease.
A low kick from Sinclair misses

and Botwin decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Sinclair's guard.
Botwin throws a strike but Sinclair rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
Sinclair has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Botwin controls Sinclair momentarily but Sinclair frees himself.

Botwin had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Sinclair is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Botwin Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Sinclair's back instead.

Sinclair showing good submission defense here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Botwin has the hooks in. Sinclair is trying to push off one leg but he has to do so cautiously to avoid being submitted.

Botwin looking for the choke from the back.
Botwin is breathing heavily.
Sinclair rolls, trying to escape but Botwin keeps control of the position.

Botwin is looking to finish the fight by rear naked choke. Sinclair knows exactly what he's got planned though, so he's defending well. Maybe a few strikes would soften Sinclair for a finish.
Sinclair is trying to stand back up.
Botwin missing with strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.

Botwin is working hard for the rear naked choke here.
Sinclair trying to control but he's just got himself in more trouble.
Botwin throwing lazy shots from the back mount that aren't doing any damage.

Botwin is working for the rear naked choke. He has one arm under the chin but Sinclair has hold of the other arm. A bit of a stalemate here.
Sinclair trying to control the action but Botwin just sinks the hooks in.
Botwin misses with a punch to the head.

Botwin working for the choke.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sinclair looking very determined here, making life difficult for Botwin.

Sinclair fending off the submission attempt from Botwin.
Watch the back of the head! Comes the shout from the referee towards Botwin.
A lull in the action here.
Sinclair trying to control but not successfully.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Sinclair controlling the position well but he knows he's in a bad position.
Sinclair trying to control the hands but Botwin breaks the grip.
Botwin throwing sloppy strikes.

Botwin is working for the rear naked choke. He has one arm under the chin but Sinclair has hold of the other arm. A bit of a stalemate here.
Botwin controlling well, preventing Sinclair from escaping the position.
Sinclair trying to control the action but Botwin just sinks the hooks in.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

D Botwin showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

Botwin feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Botwin trying to control the position from guard on top but Sinclair is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Sinclair being controlled here, momentarily.
Sinclair is trying to keep Botwin in close.
Botwin throws a big right hand that misses.
Sinclair 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.
Botwin trying to control the position from guard on top but Sinclair is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sinclair working a defensive guard here.
Botwin wants to control from the top but Sinclair keeps moving.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Sinclair throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Botwin shoots in and drives through. Sinclair sprawls well.
Sinclair throws a series of punches but Botwin moves out of range.
Botwin misses with a combination
and Sinclair counters with a straight right hand.
Botwin fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Sinclair throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Botwin changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Sinclair tries to avoid it but Botwin manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Sinclair to the ground. Sinclair escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Sinclair swings for the body but Botwin moves out of range.
Dan Sinclair is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Sinclair looks to land a combination. Botwin sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sinclair falls off balance throwing a combination

and Botwin counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Botwin prevents Sinclair from improving his position.

Botwin is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.

Botwin seems to be working for a kimura but Sinclair defends the submission attempt.

Sinclair makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!
Botwin is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Sinclair.
This has been an exciting period of action!
No joy there for Sinclair, who threw a few shots but didn't land.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Botwin looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Botwin shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Sinclair but Sinclair pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Dan Sinclair has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of D Botwin.
Sinclair scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Botwin doesn't seem bothered though.
Botwin shoots in but no luck this time.
Botwin misses with a double jab
and Sinclair counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.

Botwin closes the distance and clinches.
Sinclair is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Sinclair wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.

Botwin escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Sinclair falls off balance throwing a combination

and Botwin counters with a nice double leg into side control. Sinclair won't be happy with that.
Botwin controlling the position.
Botwin misses with the ground and pound.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sinclair is trying to control Botwin's posture but Botwin avoids it.
Sinclair sneaks back into half guard.
Dan Sinclair has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

Botwin is working for a kimura but Sinclair is defending it quite comfortably.
Sinclair is trying to control but Botwin manages to pass to mount!
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Sinclair tries to lock up and control but Botwin gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.

And that's the end of the fight!
D Botwin comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I've got Botwin winning every round here. Surely the decision will go his way and he'll pick up a well deserved decision victory. 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 Daniel Franklin scores the fight 27:30
Judge Chris Downing scores the fight 27:30
Judge Frank Dennis scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... D Botwin!