PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Arthur Jenkins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jay Who (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Who has chosen Requiem for a tower as his entrance music. Arthur Jenkins has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Jenkins
vs
Who

186 cm
22
196 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

175 cm
22
185 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Very confident

Extremely Crazy MMA gear
Dude Drugs Tokyo

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 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Arthur Jenkins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jay Who!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, Elvis Blanc and William Peck.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jenkins scores to the head and body with a nice combination!

Who closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Jenkins to the mat! Jenkins manages to get full guard.
Jenkins is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.

Who is holding a leg here, probably looking for an ankle lock - he drops back and goes for it! Jenkins is in trouble! Is it all over??? No! Jenkins has escaped and now he's on top!
Who keeping moving, preventing Jenkins from controlling successfully.
Who is trying to keep Jenkins in close.
Jenkins wants to pass the guard but Who is keeping the position.
Jenkins wants to control from the top but Who keeps moving.
Who throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.

Who looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Who throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Who keeping busy on the bottom but Jenkins has passed one foot through into half guard.
Who trying to control from the bottom.
Jenkins prevents Who from improving his position.
Jenkins will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
Who moves into full guard.
Jenkins wants to control from the top but Who keeps moving.
Jenkins looking to sit in guard and control but Who gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Jenkins throws some sloppy strikes off his back.

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.
Who trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Who has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

Who drops back for a leg but he's not going to get it - he lets go and Jenkins dives on top into guard.
Jenkins preventing the sweep.
Who looks gassed!
Who is trying to keep Jenkins in close.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Who keeping moving, preventing Jenkins from controlling successfully.
Jenkins controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Jenkins trying to control but Who is working from the bottom.
Who trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Jenkins trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.

Who had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Jenkins is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Who Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Jenkins's back instead.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
A lull in the action here.
Who throwing sloppy strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Who keeps control of the position as Jenkins tries to break free.
Jenkins really must keep his cool here. He's controlling one of Who's hands and whilst he does that, he's got a chance of escaping the position.
Who missing with strikes.
Jenkins turns into Who and is now in his guard.
Who has momentary wrist control but Jenkins slips an elbow through the middle.
Jenkins controls from within his opponent's guard.
Jenkins pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Who is keeping the position for now.
Jenkins trying to control the position from guard on top but Who is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Jenkins gets to his feet and steps away from his opponent.

Who closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Jenkins to the mat! Jenkins manages to get full guard.
Jenkins is trying to keep Who in close.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Who won't allow Jenkins to get back to his feet.
Who trying to control but Jenkins is working from the bottom.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Jenkins is on top in guard.

Jenkins is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.

Jenkins stands up from Who's guard - Jenkins perhaps looking for a knockout.
Jenkins swats away the attempt to clinch by Who.

Jenkins shoots in and bounces Who off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Who working a defensive guard here.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Arthur Jenkins dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Who misses with a takedown attempt
letting Jenkins counter with a right hand.
Jenkins misses with a few strikes there.
Arthur Jenkins is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Who gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Jenkins counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Who's guard now.

Who is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Who not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Jenkins's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Jenkins is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Jenkins sitting in guard here, content to control.
Jenkins wants to control from the top but Who keeps moving.
Jenkins throwing strikes but missing.
Jenkins wants to pass the guard but Who is keeping the position.
Jenkins is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Who looking to control.
Jenkins has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

Who working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Jenkins doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Jenkins manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
Jenkins wanted to stand there but Who had control of the position.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Jenkins misses with a takedown

and Who counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Who.
Jenkins trying to control the position.
Jenkins thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Jenkins working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Who.
Who looking to pass the guard.
Jenkins looking for a sweep. Not yet Jenkins, not yet.
Who content to stall in guard here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Who passes easily into side control. Nice work.

Who is working for what looks like an arm triangle here. Jenkins is trying to escape and Who transitions quickly into an armbar! He's slapped it on tight and Jenkins is forced to tap! Nice work there by Who! Very nice indeed!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:29 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Jay Who!