PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Daniel Franks (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and dave houses (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Franks
vs
houses

172 cm
23
130 lbs
2 - 5 - 0

200 cm
24
135 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Dangerous knees
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Daniel Franks!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, dave houses!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Colin Fotheringham and James Ackerman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

houses scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Franks looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
houses not doing much here.

houses decides to stand up.

houses has taken the fight to the clinch.

houses is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. Franks can't fight it off and eventually houses manages to take the fight to the floor. Franks looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
houses controlling from the top position.

houses stands up from Franks's guard - houses perhaps looking for a knockout.

That's one minute gone in the round.
houses thuds a left hand into Franks's body.

houses shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
houses looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Franks with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
houses is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
houses performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Franks tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
houses controlling the pace.
houses takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

houses has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Franks defend it? houses steps over the head and cranks it - Franks is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for houses!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). dave houses!