PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between nate towles (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Trevor Poppins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). nate towles has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

towles
vs
Poppins

180 cm
20
175 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

185 cm
18
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

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 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, nate towles!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Trevor Poppins!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Tiny Johnson and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Poppins closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Poppins looking to stall.

Poppins is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. towles can't fight it off and eventually Poppins manages to take the fight to the floor. towles looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Poppins trying to control but towles is working from the bottom.

towles wriggles free and stands up.

towles scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
towles wants to control but Poppins is keeping him busy.

towles tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no towles has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!

Poppins wants to improve his position, back to half guard but towles has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Poppins's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Poppins is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for towles!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). nate towles!