PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Johnny Pain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tazz Ebonx (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Pain has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Johnny Pain has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Pain
vs
Ebonx

180 cm
18
220 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

190 cm
20
243 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Likes ground

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Johnny Pain!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tazz Ebonx!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Russell Pearce and Columbo Gatti.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice takedown defense from Pain. No joy for Ebonx on that attempt.
Pain looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Pain shoots in for a takedown but Ebonx shows good takedown defense.
Ebonx with a poor takedown

and Pain counters with a takedown into side control.
Ebonx is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Ebonx has one of Pain's arms on lockdown, trying to prevent him from doing any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ebonx is trying to control Pain's posture but Pain avoids it.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Ebonx can do anything to dispel that myth.
Ebonx stuck in half guard on the bottom here.
Pain could do with loosing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Ebonx wants to control but Pain postures up.

That's two 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.
Ebonx is trying to improve his position.

Ebonx wants to control the position but that's not easy when your opponent is in side control! Pain seems to be going for some sort of submission here. Hard to say what - oh, it's a Brabo choke! He's got it! Ebonx is tapping! Wow, great finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Brabo Choke). Johnny Pain!