PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ready Go (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jerome Harris (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Harris has chosen The Clash - Rock the Casbah as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Go
vs
Harris

169 cm
23
177 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

186 cm
24
182 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Powerful

BUY ONE,GET TWO

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 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Ready Go!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Jerome Harris!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, Donald Grub and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Harris.
Go misses with a low kick.
Go doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Harris counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
A left lands for Harris.

It looks like Ready Go has been cut.
Harris throws a hook but Go blocks it.
Harris shoots and misses
letting Go counter with a right hand.
Go fails with the takedown

and Harris counters with a nice double leg into side control. Go won't be happy with that.

Harris is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Go knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Go is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Harris taking a breather here.
Harris tries to advance to mount but can't.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Harris wants to control but Go is keeping him busy.
Harris works to advance to full mount. Go defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Go tries to buck Harris off but he can't manage it.
Go manages to regain half guard. Good work.
Harris trying to pass the guard but Go defending well.
Harris is looking to take a break and control but Go is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Go looks like he's trying to stand up.
Harris trying to control from Go's half guard. Go has other ideas though and has regained full guard.
Go wants to get back to his feet but Harris is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Go being controlled here, momentarily.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Harris accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Harris won't allow Go to get back to his feet.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Go ducks under a wild hook from Harris.
A jab lands there for Harris.
Go defending well as Harris loads up on a big left hand.
Go takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jerome Harris dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ready Go's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Go keeps the fight on the outside.
Jerome Harris seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Harris throws a jab but it's blocked by Go.
Harris tries to clinch up.
Harris misses with a takedown

and Go counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Harris keeping control of the position.
Go prevents Harris from improving his position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Go slows the pace down in half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Go tries to pass the half guard into mount. Harris knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Harris wants to control the action here but instead Go manages to pass to full mount!
Harris working to try and regain half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Go sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Harris is trying desperately to improve position.
Go controlling from mount.
Go avoids the attempt from Harris to control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Go controlling from the full mount.
Go prevents Harris from getting the reversal.
Go controlling his opponent.
Go avoids the attempt from Harris to control.
Go trying to control but he's not successful this time.

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.
Go content just to control the position here.
Go trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Go is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Harris is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!

The referee stands the fighters back up. Ready Go just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.
Harris throws a hook but Go blocks it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ready Go dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Ready Go's cut.
That's time! Go's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight. And we move into the final round!

Harris throws a shot from downtown. Go moves away and avoids it.

Harris shoots in and bounces Go off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Harris is in close to Go's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Go keeping moving, preventing Harris from controlling successfully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris prevents Go from getting back to his feet.
Go keeping moving, preventing Harris from controlling successfully.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Harris with a body punch. A glancing blow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Go just misses with a punch to the body.
Go throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Harris's waist but Harris gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Go off to one side.
Harris tries for a takedown but Go circles away easily

and Go counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for Harris!
Harris tries to hold on but Go pushes him away.
Go takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Harris throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris is desperately trying to improve his position but Go has a good base and remains in mount.
Go controlling from mount.
Harris is trying desperately to improve position.
Go takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Harris is wriggling around trying to escape.

That's four 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.
Harris wants to control but Go is having none of it.
Harris is looking to get to half guard.
Go raining down shots from the mount!
Go controlling the position easily from mount.
Harris regains half guard.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Jerome Harris.
I think Harris has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. 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 James Atkins scores the fight 29:29
Judge Donald Grub scores the fight 28:29
Judge Sam Margolis scores the fight 29:28

The fight is ruled a draw!