PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Savaje Bebe Chai (ranked 4191 p4p, 4044 weight class) and Jerome Blades (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Chai
vs
Blades

185 cm
18
185
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
20
178
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Savaje Bebe Chai!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jerome Blades!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Richard Clark and Donald Grub.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A nice inside leg kick there by Chai. That's going to slow Blades down.
Chai dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Blades. That did some damage!
Chai lands a leg kick that knocks Blades off balance momentarily.
Both fighters circling a little - Chai finishes the exchange with a kick to the body.
Some wild striking there from Blades.
Blades tries to close the distance and clinch but Chai swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

Blades shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Chai's guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Blades accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Blades connects with a couple of short punches.
Blades throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Chai works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Blades postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Blades in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Blades is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Chai trying to control the position.
Blades lands a couple of decent looking shots.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Blades postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Blades cracks Chai with a solid left hand.
Blades working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Blades stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Chai swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Blades missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Blades cracks Chai with a solid left hand.
Blades landing some decent shots from guard.

Blades 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.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blades advances position into side control!
Blades scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Chai to see if he's OK.
Blades in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.
Blades landing strikes.
Chai on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Blades scores with a couple of short elbows.
Chai is trying to get back to half guard.
Blades has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The ground and pound from Blades seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Blades creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Blades landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Blades slows the pace down.
Blades working the ground and pound from side control.
Blades is working Chai over with some ground and pound from side control.
Blades throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Blades is working Chai over with some ground and pound from side control.
Blades creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Blades in side control lands a decent elbow.
Chai knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Blades on the ground.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Blades lands an elbow.

Blades has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Chai is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Blades yanks on the arm and Chai is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Blades.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Jerome Blades!