PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Roger Shanks (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and EF Hutton (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Roger Shanks looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Shanks
vs
Hutton

179 cm
22
185 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

186 cm
20
185 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Counter striker
Intelligent

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Roger Shanks!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, EF Hutton!
The judges for this bout are Donatello Bradman, Eliza Hachem and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hutton tries to clinch but Shanks moves out of range.
Jeez, both these guys look absolutely knackered already, that's not a good sign!
Hutton tries to clinch there but Shanks circles away.
Shanks looks for a takedown but Hutton sprawls well.

Shanks gets the takedown into side control.
Hutton looks to move to half guard but instead Shanks has passed into mount! Damn!
Hutton is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Hutton is squirming around, avoiding Shanks's attempts to control the action.
Hutton tries to hold on but Shanks pushes him away.
Hutton really wants to buck Shanks off and get back to his feet.
Shanks trying to control but Hutton is having none of it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Shanks takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Hutton is looking to get back to his feet - it's going to be hard from this position.
Shanks connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Hutton is wriggling around trying to escape.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Hutton is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Shanks trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Hutton is looking to improve his position but Shanks isn't that keen on the idea.
Hutton is trying to stand.
Hutton takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Hutton working to try and regain half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Shanks controlling from the full mount.
Shanks is in the full mount, landing strikes.

Shanks with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
BOOM! Shanks connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Shanks pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Hutton wants to hold on but Shanks pushes him away.
Shanks landing strikes from the mount and Hutton is in trouble!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Shanks looking to control and managing it successfully.
Hutton takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Hutton keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Shanks is landing with some decent strikes but Hutton is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Shanks looking to control and managing it successfully.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Shanks cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Roger Shanks 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.

Hutton lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.

Shanks scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Shanks trying to control from half guard but Hutton is working away.
Hutton works his way to full guard. Good work.
Shanks is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Shanks distracts Hutton with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Shanks missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Hutton pushes Shanks off and gets back to his feet.
Shanks fails with the takedown.
Shanks circles away from the clinch attempt.
Shanks looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Hutton is fending him off so far but Shanks persists. Nope, Hutton circles away and we're back to standing.

Shanks changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Hutton looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Shanks lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Hutton down.
Hutton is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.

Hutton manages to escape and get back to his feet!
Shanks shoots in and drives through. Hutton sprawls well.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Roger Shanks. That's going to take a lot out of him.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Hutton shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Shanks is squirming around, avoiding Hutton's attempts to control the action.
Shanks is looking to get to half guard.
Shanks tries to hold on but Hutton pushes him away.
Shanks can't escape the position.
Shanks is working hard here to advance position.
Hutton looking to ground and pound but Shanks is blocking nicely.
Shanks wants to control but Hutton is having none of it.
Hutton landing strikes from the mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Shanks is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Shanks is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Hutton avoids the attempt from Shanks to control.
Hutton lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Shanks really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Shanks wants to hold on but Hutton pushes him away.
Shanks taking shots to the head.

That's four 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.
Shanks avoids a series of strikes thrown by Hutton.
Roger Shanks overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

Hutton goes for an armbar but he's fallen flat on his backside there and now Shanks is on top in guard.
Hutton wants to get back to his feet but Shanks is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Shanks wants to control from the top but Hutton keeps moving.
Shanks is really struggling to control Hutton but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Shanks is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

EF Hutton showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!

Shanks gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Hutton counters with a single leg into guard. Shanks didn't expect that.
Hutton trying to control the position from guard on top but Shanks is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Shanks working a defensive guard here.
Shanks is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Hutton is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Hutton won't allow Shanks to sweep him here.
Hutton trying to control but Shanks is working from the bottom.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Hutton with a nice head shot there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Shanks pulls Hutton in close to prevent any damage.
Hutton trying to stand up but can't free himself from Shanks's guard.
Hutton wants to stand and escape but instead Shanks has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Shanks sitting in guard here, content to control.
Hutton looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

Hutton pushes Shanks off and scrambles back to his feet.
Shanks shoots and misses

and Hutton counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Shanks manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Shanks controlling the position easily from mount.
Hutton is looking to improve his position but Shanks isn't that keen on the idea.
Shanks trying to control but he's not successful this time.

The referee stands the fighters back up. Roger Shanks just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.
Hutton tries to clinch up but Shanks circles away and keeps his distance.
Hutton will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Roger Shanks is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Shanks misses with a takedown
and Hutton counters with a left and a right that stings Shanks.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Roger Shanks. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Hutton gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Shanks takes a knee right on the jaw!
Shanks managing to block the knees to the body from Hutton.
Shanks looking to stall.
Hutton misses with an elbow strike.

Hutton pulls guard effortlessly.
Hutton trying to control the position.
Hutton manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Shanks tries to hold on but Hutton postures up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Shanks blocking the ground and pound.
Shanks tries to lock up and control but Hutton gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
Shanks is trying to escape the mount.
Hutton dominating with strikes here.
Shanks is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Hutton trying to control but Shanks is having none of it.
Hutton lands a big shot there that rocks Shanks but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.

And that's the end of the fight!
EF Hutton comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Hutton has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Donatello Bradman scores the fight 28:29
Judge Eliza Hachem scores the fight 28:29
Judge Bruno Hogan scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... EF Hutton!