PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Eric Idle (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tommy Starr (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Idle
vs
Starr

170 cm
27
206 lbs
10 - 3 - 2

182 cm
31
210 lbs
11 - 14 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

Powerful takedowns
Good kicks
Powerful

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 10 - 3 - 2, fighting out of Amsterdam, Eric Idle!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Tommy Starr!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Paul Aken and Paulsen Ambrosius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Starr misses with a takedown
and Idle counters with a nice body shot.
Starr shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Starr on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Starr shoots in but Idle avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Eric Idle has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Tommy Starr.

Starr scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.

Starr is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Idle is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.
Idle manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
Idle not doing much here.
Idle is looking to advance position but Starr won't allow it.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Starr looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Idle lands a nice short elbow.

Starr is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Idle pulls his head out easily.
Starr taking some punishment here, with Idle in his half guard.
Idle looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Starr with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Idle content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.

Starr looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

Starr looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Idle is figuring out what he wants to do next.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Starr is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Idle pulls his head out easily.
Idle is figuring out what he wants to do next.

Starr looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Starr avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Idle.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Starr manages to get to full guard.
Idle controlling from the top position.
Idle has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

Idle avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Starr throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Idle working some strikes from top position.

Starr has his foot on Idle's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Idle works his way back into a safe position though.
Starr preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Starr has momentary wrist control but Idle slips an elbow through the middle.
Idle throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.

Starr has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Idle doesn't defend quickly enough and Starr has managed to lock this one up! Can Idle escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Starr on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Tommy Starr!