PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Pebble Braithweight (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ian Tunstall (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Braithweight comes to the cage accompanied by 300 violin. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Braithweight
vs
Tunstall

177 cm
24
170 lbs
10 - 5 - 0

180 cm
23
180 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

Good takedowns
Brawler
Likes ground

►Schwarzenegger Nutrition◄

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Pebble Braithweight!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Ian Tunstall!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, Daniel Bishop and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Braithweight shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.

Braithweight gets a takedown into half guard.
Tunstall is looking to improve his position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Braithweight seems to be looking for submissions.

Braithweight is actively looking for submissions here but good counter grappling here from Tunstall as he works his way to full guard.

Braithweight is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Tunstall striking off his back, scoring a few points.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tunstall throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Tunstall looking to hit a scissor sweep but Braithweight is one step ahead there.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Braithweight thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.

Braithweight drops back, looking for a kneebar! Tunstall looks panicked! The fighters roll across the mat, one looking to finish, one looking to escape. Tunstall looks to have wriggled free... Yes, he's got his leg free and he's dived into side control! Good work there from Tunstall!

Tunstall is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Braithweight has escaped the position, nice work there.

The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Tunstall is trying to get an arm triangle but Braithweight is defending well.
Braithweight on the wrong end of some ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Braithweight tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Braithweight manages to get back to half guard.
Braithweight is breathing heavily.
Tunstall frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Braithweight is looking to get to half guard.
Braithweight is working hard here to advance position.

Tunstall jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but Braithweight manages to avoid the submission attempt.
Braithweight regains half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Tunstall is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Braithweight sees it coming and defends easily.
Tunstall wants to stand but Braithweight has hold of a leg and an arm, so he's trapped for now.

Braithweight actively working from the bottom here.
Braithweight works his way to full guard. Good work.

Braithweight had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Tunstall is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Braithweight Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Tunstall's back instead.
Tunstall manages to reverse the position and now he's in Braithweight's guard. Nice work there by Tunstall.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Tunstall thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Tunstall throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Braithweight works some decent striking defense from the bottom.

Braithweight throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Tunstall works over Braithweight with some ground and pound from guard.
Tunstall would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Tunstall must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Tunstall trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.

Braithweight working for a triangle but Tunstall defends it easily.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pebble Braithweight dominated that round.
That's time! Braithweight's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Tunstall tries to clinch up.
Braithweight misses with a takedown attempt - Tunstall sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.

Braithweight 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.

Braithweight drops back for a leg! It's a sloppy attempt though and Braithweight jumps back into guard quickly, to retain the dominant position.
Tunstall lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Braithweight!
Tunstall scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Tunstall looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Tunstall dominating with strikes here.
Braithweight regains half guard.
Braithweight gets full guard.
Braithweight looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Tunstall puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Tunstall looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Pebble Braithweight overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

Braithweight looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

Tunstall is looking for a kimura but Braithweight is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Tunstall to get the leverage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Braithweight looking for submissions off his back.

Braithweight looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

Braithweight looking for submissions off his back.

Braithweight looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

Braithweight looking for subs from the bottom but Tunstall mounts him!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tunstall pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Tunstall scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Braithweight?
Braithweight gets back to half guard.

Tunstall is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.

Tunstall is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
Braithweight on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.

Braithweight looking for submissions off his back.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Tunstall seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Braithweight is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:20 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Ian Tunstall!