PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matt Mitrione (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tony Emms (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). On his way into the cage it seems that Matt Mitrione has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Matt Mitrione seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Mitrione
vs
Emms

195 cm
25
245 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

193 cm
19
245 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Matt Mitrione!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Tony Emms!
The judges for this bout are Hugh Johnson, Winston Howard and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Emms will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Mitrione closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Emms to the mat! Emms manages to get full guard.
Emms manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Mitrione manages to get himself to full guard.
Mitrione working a defensive guard here.
Emms prevents Mitrione from getting back to his feet.
Emms trying to control but Mitrione is working from the bottom.
Mitrione wants to sweep here but Emms controlling him for the moment.

Emms stands up from Mitrione's guard - Emms perhaps looking for a knockout.
Tony Emms seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Emms fails in his attempt to clinch.
Mitrione moves in looking to clinch but Emms pushes him off.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mitrione blocks a low kick nicely.
Emms tries to close the distance and clinch but Mitrione swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Emms loads up on a big right hand but Mitrione slips the punch.
Mitrione looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.

Emms lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Mitrione sprawling to the canvas. Emms follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Mitrione hang on?

Mitrione is rocked!

It looks like Matt Mitrione has been cut.
Mitrione is breathing heavily.
Emms is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Emms stands up out of the half guard.
Horrible takedown by Mitrione or perhaps it was just good defense by Emms which made him look bad.

Emms instigates a clinch.
Emms looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Emms slows down the pace here.
Emms softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Emms scores with a shot to the side of Mitrione's head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Emms is looking to control Mitrione's arms but Mitrione gets an underhook and turns him. Now Emms has his back to the cage.
Emms fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Emms will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Mitrione up against the cage.
Emms pushes off an throws an elbow but Mitrione leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Emms tries a body shot but Mitrione blocks it.
Knees in the clinch landing for Emms.
Mitrione blocking some punches.
A head punch on the inside from Emms fails to land.
Emms looking to slow down the pace here.
Emms is trying to slow the pace down but that's a couple of times in a row that he's tried to get underhooks and Mitrione has denied him.
A short right from Emms on the inside.
Mitrione blocking some punches.
Emms softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Emms leaning against his opponent.
With the fighters up against the cage, Emms throws an elbow but misses.
Emms looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Emms lands an uppercut.
Emms stalling in the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Emms scores with a shot to the side of Mitrione's head.

Matt Mitrione's cut is getting worse.
Emms pushes off an throws an elbow but Mitrione leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Emms softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Emms trying to control the position but instead, Mitrione has worked for underhooks and has pushed Emms into the cage.
Emms throws a head punch that misses.
Emms stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Emms misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Mitrione.
Mitrione being controlled against the cage.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Tony Emms.
Sloppy strikes from Emms. Those never looked like landing.

Emms gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Emms lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Emms lands a left hand.
Mitrione blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Emms throws an elbow but it misses.
Mitrione tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Emms smiles and moves away.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Matt Mitrione. That's going to take a lot out of him.

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.
Emms is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Mitrione steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Emms.
Emms tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Mitrione moves away from the strike by Emms.

Emms closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Emms lands in his opponent's guard.

Emms decides to stand up and beckons his opponent to follow.
Emms throws a jab but it's blocked by Mitrione.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.

Mitrione gets tackled into the cage by Emms. Emms maintains the clinch.
Emms working aggressively here.
Emms trying to control the position but instead, Mitrione has worked for underhooks and has pushed Emms into the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tony Emms dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Matt Mitrione's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

Mitrione misses with a takedown attempt
and Emms counters with a series of strikes. Mitrione will be more careful next time no doubt.
A left lands for Emms.

Matt Mitrione's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.

Emms closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Emms lands in his opponent's guard.
Emms sitting in guard, not really doing much.

Emms gets to his feet. Mitrione looking to butt scoot but the ref puts an end to that. On your feet son!
Emms lands a two punch combo.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Emms misses with a straight right.
Mitrione blocks a jab.
Emms throws a series of punches but Mitrione moves out of range.

Emms lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Mitrione sprawling to the canvas. Emms follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Mitrione hang on?
Oh Mitrione is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Emms looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Mitrione with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Emms controlling the pace.
Mitrione seems to have got his legs back now.
Emms passes the guard and advances to mount!
Mitrione really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
A nice elbow there by Emms.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Emms can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Mitrione is looking to escape.
Emms tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.

Emms has hold of an arm here, looking to extend it. He's committed to the armbar attempt here! Will he get it?! Yes! Mitrione is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:52 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Tony Emms!