PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alexi Taiga (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Starship Pain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Taiga comes to the cage accompanied by Bukkake Tsunami by Cattle Decapitation. Alexi Taiga could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Starship Pain's chin.

Taiga
vs
Pain

201 cm
23
266 lbs
8 - 3 - 1

195 cm
19
270 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

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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 8 - 3 - 1, fighting out of New York, Alexi Taiga!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Starship Pain!
The judges for this bout are Jonathan Paton, Bruno Lombardi and Jorge Garcia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Taiga closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Taiga slips a nice elbow through Pain's hands, connecting with Pain's forehead.
Taiga is keen to just control but Pain is a slippery customer.
Pain throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Taiga is looking to take a break and control but Pain is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Pain manages to get to full guard.
Pain looking to hit a scissor sweep but Taiga is one step ahead there.
Pain is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Pain has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

Pain working for a triangle but Taiga defends it easily.
Taiga preventing the sweep.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Taiga pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Pain is keeping the position for now.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Pain is trying to control the position but Taiga postures up.
Taiga wants to pass the guard but Pain is keeping the position.
Taiga passes into half guard.
The fighters are battling for position here. Pain manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
Pain keeping moving, preventing Taiga from controlling successfully.
Taiga has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Taiga won't allow Pain to sweep him here.
Pain keeping moving, preventing Taiga from controlling successfully.
Pain looking for a sweep. Not yet Pain, not yet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.

Pain throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Taiga works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Pain wants to get back to full guard.
Taiga lands strikes from half guard.
Taiga thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Pain's head.
Taiga is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Taiga looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Taiga seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Pain does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Taiga throwing shots but Pain is blocking nicely.
Taiga is just content to waste time from the top position. Pain takes advantage of the situation and regains full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Taiga looking to sit in guard and control but Pain gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Taiga avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Pain trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Taiga controls Pain momentarily but Pain frees himself.
Pain preventing the sweep.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Pain misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Pain avoids the head kick by Taiga.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch but Taiga swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Pain swings for the body but Taiga moves out of range.
Alexi Taiga seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Taiga's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Taiga duly obliges.
Pain scores with a nice strike.
Pain looks to score with a jab to the body but Taiga is just out of range.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Taiga closes the distance looking to clinch
and Pain counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Taiga throws a front kick aimed at Pain's knee but Pain avoids it well.

Taiga clinches up with Pain and pushes him back against the cage.
Pain is trying to stall.
Pain is leaning against Taiga and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Taiga missing with knees to the body.
Pain lands a body shot in the clinch.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Taiga has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Pain is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Taiga is breathing heavily.
Pain lands a left hand that snaps the head of Taiga backwards.
Pain trying to control the position but instead, Taiga has worked for underhooks and has pushed Pain into the cage.
A right hook to the body lands for Pain.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Pain managing to block the knees to the body from Taiga.

Pain has hold of one of Taiga's legs. Taiga is fighting the takedown attempt but Pain gets the trip and lands the takedown into guard.
Pain passes into half guard.
Pain working over Taiga with some ground and pound. Taiga looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Starship Pain will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Pain takes a swing at Taiga's ribcage but misses.
Taiga fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Taiga with a lazy takedown attempt
and Pain counters with a straight right hand.
Pain steps into range and cracks Taiga with a monster punch that buckles his knees! Taiga flops backwards and Pain dives into his guard looking to finish!

Taiga is rocked!

It looks like Alexi Taiga has been cut.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Taiga is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Oh Taiga is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Taiga looking to hit a scissor sweep but Pain is one step ahead there.
Taiga seems to have got his legs back now.
Pain trying to control but Taiga is working from the bottom.
Pain with a nice head shot there.
Pain is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Taiga throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Pain advances position into side control!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain in side control lands a decent elbow.
Taiga tries to bench press Pain off him but Pain keeps the position.

Pain thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Pain landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Pain scores with punches from side control.

Pain is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Taiga has escaped the position, nice work there.
Starship Pain has got the better of the ground game so far.

Pain tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.

Pain wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Taiga, who protects the arm well.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Taiga tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
Taiga wants to control but Pain postures up.
Taiga taking a bit of punishment here - Pain scoring with strikes.
Taiga misses with a strike from the bottom.
Pain lands a nice forearm strike.
Pain grinds an elbow into Taiga's temple.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Taiga is trying to improve his position.
Sloppy strikes there by Pain.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Pain tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Pain has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Pain throws a strike aimed at the side of Taiga's head but Taiga avoids it well.
Taiga is trying to work for a sweep but Pain has mounted him!
Pain controlling the pace for now.
Pain looking to finish Taiga with some ground and pound. This is bad for Taiga!
Taiga tries to hold on but Pain pushes him away.
Taiga in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Pain in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Taiga wants to control but Pain is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pain scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Pain scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Pain lands a heavy elbow.
Taiga bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Pain manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Taiga manages to get himself to full guard.
Pain works over Taiga with some ground and pound from guard.
Pain postures up and lands a big shot to Taiga's brow.
Taiga 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.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Taiga wants to improve his position but instead Pain has moved into half guard.
Pain is nestled in close to Taiga, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Starship Pain showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Alexi Taiga's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. This is the final round!

Taiga tries to clinch but Pain moves away
and Pain counters with a one-two to the body.
Taiga tries to grapple but his opponent circles
letting Pain counter with a right hand.

Pain scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Pain wants to pass to mount but Taiga is defending the position.
Pain trying to control the action but Taiga is working from the bottom.
Pain tries to pass the half guard into mount. Taiga knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Pain takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
The fighters are battling for position here. Taiga manages to regain full guard. Nice work.

Taiga is looking for a triangle here but Pain uses the submission attempt to pass into side control.
Pain throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain landing a few strikes.
Pain landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Taiga is looking for a sweep.
Pain gets to mount! Taiga was on the offensive and wasn't defending properly.
Pain lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Pain landing strikes, looking to finish!
Taiga is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Pain is landing with some decent strikes but Taiga is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Taiga tries to hold on but Pain postures up.
Pain scores with a couple of good head shots there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pain with a couple of short strikes.

Taiga is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Whack. That's a big, big shot from Pain! Taiga is out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Starship Pain!