PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Bill Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yair Rockwell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yair Rockwell will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Love
vs
Rockwell

180 cm
23
140 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

170 cm
25
135 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Hates pizza

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Bill Love!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Yair Rockwell!
The judges for this bout are , Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Love drives through with a takedown into guard.
Love stopping the sweep attempt from Rockwell.
Love distracts Rockwell with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Love working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Rockwell's head.
Love postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Love postures up and lands a big shot to Rockwell's brow.
Love chips away with some ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Love stands up over Rockwell, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Rockwell wants to improve his position but instead Love has moved into half guard.
Love takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Rockwell is trying to stand back up but Love is controlling him
Love is nestled in close to Rockwell, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love lands with a punch from half guard.
Love looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Rockwell with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Love drops an elbow to the side of Rockwell's head.
Love scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Love winds up and cracks Rockwell with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Love working Rockwell over with strikes.
Nice strikes from Love there.
Love scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Love is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Love trying to control the pace.
Love is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rockwell is trying to control but can't.
Love is nestled in close to Rockwell, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Love working the head and body with strikes.
Love lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.

Love is trying to work for a kimura but Rockwell is defending well.
Rockwell really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Love. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Love scores with a couple of good hammerfists.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Love seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Rockwell is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Love scores with a couple of nice shots.
Rockwell has hold of Love's hands but Love slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Love winds up and cracks Rockwell with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Love lands strikes from half guard.
Love drops an elbow to the side of Rockwell's head.
Love winds up and cracks Rockwell with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Rockwell regains full guard. Nicely done.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love lands a couple of digs.
Love lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Rockwell looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Love puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Rockwell looks winded!
Rockwell is trying to control but Love passes into side control!
Love cracks Rockwell with a big elbow.

Love wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Rockwell, who protects the arm well.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Rockwell is working to avoid the ground and pound but Love connects with a decent elbow.
Love lands a few punches from side control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bill Love dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Love misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Rockwell.
Love is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Rockwell can do to turn this around?
Rockwell pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Rockwell throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Love avoids the head kick by Rockwell.
Rockwell scores with a head kick.
Love avoids the head kick by Rockwell.
Love throws a big counter combination but Rockwell scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.
Rockwell rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Love moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Love avoids the head kick by Rockwell.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Rockwell misses with the combination.
Rockwell misses with a few strikes there.
Rockwell is breathing heavily.

Love shoots in with a lovely double leg takedown. Rockwell manages to land in full guard to minimise the damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love connects with a couple of short punches.
Love chips away with some ground and pound.
Love stands up over Rockwell, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Love really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Love content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Love with a nice head shot there.
Love working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Love working some strikes from top position.
Love lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Love stands up over Rockwell, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Love 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.
Rockwell wants to control but Love passes easily into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Ground and pound from Love.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Love connects with a nice short shot to Rockwell's temple.
Bill Love overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Love drops an elbow to the side of Rockwell's head.
Nice strikes from Love there.
Love is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Love seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ground and pound from Love.
Ground and pound from Love.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Love working Rockwell over with strikes.
Love lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Rockwell on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Love working the head and body with strikes.
Nice strikes from Love there.
Love scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Love working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Love lands a nice short elbow.
Rockwell has hold of Love's hands but Love slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love is nestled in close to Rockwell, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.

Love in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Rockwell tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Love!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Bill Love!