PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between BJ Penn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jake Allen (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.

Penn
vs
Allen

184 cm
22
169 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
21
175 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

Good takedowns
Brawler
Intelligent

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 St Petersburg, BJ Penn!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jake Allen!
The judges for this bout are Igor Prikhodko, Sergei Dronov and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Penn.

Allen shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Penn's guard.
Allen must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Penn trying to control the position.
Allen won't allow Penn to get back to his feet.
Allen sitting in guard, not really doing much.

Penn escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Allen gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Allen wants to stand but Penn is controlling his posture from full guard.

Allen stands up from guard. Let's bang!

That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab lands there for Penn.
Penn avoids the head kick by Allen.
Penn tries for a takedown but Allen circles away easily

and Allen counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Penn is breathing heavily.

Allen decides to stand and escape the position.

Penn gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Allen to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Penn is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Allen postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Allen not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.

Allen stands up from Penn's guard - Allen perhaps looking for a knockout.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Allen clinches.

Penn pulls guard effortlessly.
Allen scoring with some ground and pound.

Allen stands up from Penn's guard - Allen perhaps looking for a knockout.

Allen closes the distance and clinches.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Allen scores a nice knee to the body.
Allen is trying to break free.
Allen softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Penn tries to pull guard but Allen holds him up against the cage and eventually Penn drops back down to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for BJ Penn. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Allen looking for a takedown.
Allen tries to pull guard but Penn won't allow it.
Penn trying to land knees to the body.
Allen stalling.
Allen has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Penn is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Penn tries to pull guard but Allen holds him up against the cage and eventually Penn drops back down to his feet.
Penn prevents a takedown attempt there.
Allen using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Penn has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Allen is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Allen pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.

Allen lands a nice trip takedown into half guard.
Allen sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Penn trying to control here.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Allen controlling the pace.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jake Allen dominated that round.
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.

Allen throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Penn tries for a takedown but Allen circles away easily

and Allen counters with a nice double leg into side control. Penn won't be happy with that.
Allen trying to control the position but Penn is working away.
Allen moves into full mount!
Jake Allen has got the better of the ground game so far.
Allen unloading with bombs!
Penn is wriggling around trying to escape.
Allen has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Penn's face.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Penn is just holding on here. Allen manages to take his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Allen softening up his opponent with strikes here.
Penn grimaces as he takes a shot to the body.
Allen scores with strikes from the back.

Allen has managed to slip his arm under Penn's chin. This could be all over... yep, Penn is tapping out! Submission win for Allen.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Jake Allen!