PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Chuck Pain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and war machine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). war machine told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

Pain
vs
machine

195 cm
18
285 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

185 cm
19
250 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

Koffin Inc.

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Chuck Pain!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, war machine!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pain tries to clinch but machine is having none of it.
machine tries to bum rush Pain with a series of wild strikes but Pain uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
machine tries to bum rush Pain with a series of wild strikes but Pain uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but machine paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Pain is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
machine lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Pain fails in his attempt to clinch.
Pain fails with an attempt to clinch.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up but machine swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A punch combination from machine misses.
machine circles away from the clinch attempt.
machine throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
machine fails to land with a series of punches.
machine swats away the attempt to clinch by Pain.

Pain clinches.
machine blocks an uppercut.
Pain holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Pain misses with a hook to the ribs.
Pain keeps control of machine as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Pain is trying to break the clinch but machine is controlling him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain is stalling here.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Chuck Pain.

Pain gets a clinch.
Come on Pain - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Pain lands with a short shot to the head.

Pain escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Chuck Pain seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
machine misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
A head kick misses from machine.

Pain clinches up against the cage.
Stalling in the clinch from Pain.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
machine wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
machine should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Pain stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.

Pain pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
machine throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
machine keeps the fight on the outside.
machine circles away from the clinch attempt.
Pain tries to clinch but machine is having none of it.
machine keeps the fight on the outside.
machine throws a nice looking combination but Pain bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
machine throws a series of punches but Pain moves out of range.
Pain tries to clinch but machine is having none of it.
machine misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Pain doesn't manage to clinch there - machine circles away.
The fight stays on the outside here - Pain looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
machine looks to land a combination but Pain avoids it well.
machine misses with a few strikes there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Pain is stalling here.

Pain escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
The fight stays on the outside here - Pain looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Pain clinches up with machine and pushes him back against the cage.
Pain has machine pushed against the cage.
Pain tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Pain slows down the pace here.
machine is looking to break free of the clinch but Pain has double underhooks.
machine has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
machine has Pain pressed against the cage, preventing Pain from circling away and getting back to striking at range.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A head punch on the inside from Pain fails to land.
machine is looking to break free of the clinch but Pain has double underhooks.

Pain breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but machine paws at him with a jab and circles away.
A combination from machine does no damage.
No joy there for machine, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
machine keeps the fight on the outside.
Pain tries to clinch there but machine circles away.
Pain wants to clinch up but machine keeps it at a distance.

Pain has closed the distance and engaged machine in a clinch.
Pain has machine pushed against the cage.
Pain prevents machine from breaking the clinch.
Pain taking a breather.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Chuck Pain will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Pain tries to clinch up but machine circles away and keeps his distance.
The fight stays on the outside here - Pain looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
machine misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up but machine swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but machine paws at him with a jab and circles away.

Pain moves into the clinch.
machine tries to break the clinch but Pain is controlling the position.

Pain escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Pain showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from machine.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
machine throws a body kick that misses.

Pain closes the distance and clinches.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Pain.
Pain keeps the fight in the clinch, despite machine's efforts to push away.

Pain manages to break the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
machine lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Pain circles away quickly and effectively.
machine misses with a jab, cross combination.
Pain avoids a punch combination nicely.
Pain fails with an attempt to clinch.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
Pain tries to clinch but machine moves out of range.
Pain tries to clinch up.
Some wild striking there from machine.
Pain tries to clinch up but machine circles away and keeps his distance.
Pain fails with an attempt to clinch.
machine circles away from the clinch attempt.
Pain tries to clinch there but machine circles away.
A combination from machine does no damage.
machine throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Pain tries to clinch but machine moves out of range.
machine throws a jab when Pain was well out of range.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
Pain has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pain is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch but machine swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
machine throws a series of punches but Pain avoids them all with ease.
Pain is looking to clinch.
machine circles away from the clinch attempt.
Chuck Pain is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
machine will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
Pain tries to clinch but machine is having none of it.
machine swats away the attempt to clinch by Pain.
Pain tries to clinch there but machine circles away.
Pain wants to clinch up but machine keeps it at a distance.

Pain moves into the clinch successfully.
machine being controlled against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Pain breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

The fight moves into the clinch position.

Pain breaks from the clinch.
A punch combination from machine misses.
machine circles away from the clinch attempt.
Pain wants to clinch.
machine looks to land a combination but Pain avoids it well.
A combination from machine does no damage.

Pain closes the distance and pushes machine back into the cage.

Pain breaks the clinch.
machine stuns Pain with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Pain tries to clinch up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
machine tries to bum rush Pain with a series of wild strikes but Pain uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
machine avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Pain tries to clinch but machine moves out of range.
A punch combination from machine misses.
machine swinging wilding here.

Pain closes the distance and clinches.
machine letting Pain take a breather here.

Pain pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
machine fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Pain wants to clinch.
Pain is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but machine paws at him with a jab and circles away.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

war machine showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action. This is the final round!

Some wild striking there from machine.
No joy there for machine, who threw a few shots but didn't land.

Pain clinches with his opponent.
Stalling in the clinch from Pain.
Pain misses with a punch on the inside.
Pain keeps the fight in the clinch, despite machine's efforts to push away.
machine tries to circle away but Pain has him pinned against the cage.
Pain holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Pain prevents machine from breaking the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Pain displaying some good clinch control by pressing machine up against the cage.

machine escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain fails with an attempt to clinch.
machine swats away the attempt to clinch by Pain.
A combination from machine does no damage.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch but machine swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Pain tries to clinch but machine is having none of it.
machine will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
machine looks to land a right hand but Pain moved out of range.
machine throws a series of punches but Pain moves out of range.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch but machine swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

Pain gets in close and instigates a clinch.
machine blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Pain content to slow the pace in the clinch.

Pain manages to break the clinch.
Pain wants to clinch.
Pain wants to clinch up but machine keeps it at a distance.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Pain is looking to clinch.
machine misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
machine keeps the fight on the outside.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
Pain wants to clinch.
Pain is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
machine throws out a loose jab but Pain uses good head movement to avoid it.

Pain gets a clinch.
Stalling in the clinch from Pain.
Pain gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Pain prevents machine from breaking the clinch.
Pain keeps control of machine as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Pain is stalling here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Chuck Pain.
machine looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
machine moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Pain tries to close the distance and clinch up but machine swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Pain is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Pain tries to clinch up but machine circles away and keeps his distance.
machine misses with a series of wild punches.
machine throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Pain.
machine takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Pain moves in looking to clinch but machine pushes him off.
Some wild striking there from machine.
Pain is looking to clinch but machine is avoiding it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fight stays on the outside here - Pain looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Nice uppercut lands for machine. That snapped Pain's head back.
Pain tries to clinch up but machine circles away and keeps his distance.
A combination from machine does no damage.
Pain tries to clinch there but machine circles away.
Pain doesn't manage to clinch there - machine circles away.
machine fails to land with a series of punches.
Pain tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Pain tries to clinch but machine moves out of range.

Pain moves into the clinch successfully.

Pain escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Pain gets in close and instigates a clinch.
The referee calls for Pain to work.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Pain seems to have come into the fight with the intention of avoiding any damage in the clinch, rather than actually showing any aggression.
machine tries to break the clinch but Pain is controlling the position.
Pain is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.

And that's the end of the fight!
Chuck Pain showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Pain has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Shigeki Sano scores the fight 29:29
Judge Yukihiro Yamamoto scores the fight 29:29
Judge Yukihiro Shimada scores the fight 29:28

The fight is ruled a majority draw!