PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Noah Qualls (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Frank The Blade (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters really staring eachother down here, as Frank The Blade enters the cage!

Qualls
vs
The Blade

178 cm
25
155 lbs
6 - 6 - 0

180 cm
25
145 lbs
6 - 3 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Noah Qualls!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Frank The Blade!
The judges for this bout are Cecil Peabody, Gwen Towbar and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The Blade lands with a nice body kick.
A decent looking body kick lands there for The Blade.
Qualls is breathing heavily.
This has been an exciting period of action!
A solid body kick from The Blade.

The Blade lands a big head kick that sends Qualls tumbling to the mat! The Blade takes a step backwards and waves Qualls back to his feet - he wants the finish!

Qualls is rocked!

It looks like Noah Qualls has been cut.
The Blade is looking to slow Qualls down with leg kicks.
Oh Qualls is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

The Blade gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Qualls seems to have got his legs back now.
The Blade throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
The Blade works on Qualls's body with a couple of short punches.
The Blade crunches a lovely knee into Qualls's ribcage.
The Blade crunches a lovely knee into Qualls's ribcage.
The Blade lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
The Blade lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
The Blade landing knees to the body.
The Blade scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Qualls takes a knee to the side of the body.
The Blade pushes Qualls back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. The Blade obliges.
The Blade with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
The Blade softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Qualls takes a knee right on the jaw!
The Blade unloads a knee to the mid-section. Qualls lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
The Blade misses with a knee to the head.
A nice glancing elbow lands by The Blade.
The Blade lands an elbow that stopped Qualls in his tracks for a moment.
The Blade lands a left hand that snaps the head of Qualls backwards.
The Blade comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
The Blade using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Blade lands a nice knee to the body.
The Blade scores a nice knee to the body.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
The Blade lands an elbow that stopped Qualls in his tracks for a moment.
The Blade lands a knee to the body.
The Blade lands a left hand that snaps the head of Qualls backwards.
A short body shot lands from The Blade as the two fighters clinch.
The Blade throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Qualls blocks it with crossed arms.
The Blade cracks Qualls with a nice body shot.
Knees to the body from The Blade.
Qualls takes a knee to the side of the body.
The Blade is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
The Blade crunches a lovely knee into Qualls's ribcage.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
The Blade with an attempt at a knee that misses.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
Qualls is trying to force a seperation but The Blade has the dominant position.
The Blade lands a body punch.
Qualls is trying to maintain a safe position but The Blade gets an underhook and turns Qualls into the cage.
Knees to the body from The Blade.
The Blade lands a body punch in the clinch.
The Blade landing knees to the head.
Qualls takes a knee right on the jaw!
Qualls wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
The Blade misses with a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The Blade lands a knee to the body.
Nice body punch from The Blade - that landed with a thud.
The Blade with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
The Blade lands a nice knee to the body.
The Blade lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Qualls.
The Blade tries to land knees in the clinch but Qualls avoids the damage to the body.
The Blade tries to land a knee to the head but Qualls blocks with his arms.
The Blade lands a good knee to the midsection. Qualls won't want to take too many of those.
The Blade lands a shot to the body.
The Blade utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
The Blade has Qualls pressed against the cage, preventing Qualls from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Qualls on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
The Blade unloads a knee to the mid-section. Qualls lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A knee to the head by The Blade.
Qualls takes a knee right on the jaw!
Qualls working hard to break the clinch.
Qualls stalling in the clinch but The Blade improves position.
The Blade lands a nice knee to the body.
The Blade lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Qualls tries to circle away but The Blade has him pinned against the cage.
The Blade lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Qualls is trying to break the clinch but The Blade is controlling him.
Qualls tries to circle away but The Blade has him pinned against the cage.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, The Blade creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Qualls lands a nice uppercut.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
The Blade missing with knees to the body.
Qualls takes a knee to the side of the body.
The Blade lands a knee to the head.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from The Blade.
Qualls tries to break free but The Blade pushes him back against the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by The Blade.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
The Blade cracks Qualls with a nice body shot.
The Blade landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The Blade tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
The Blade lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Qualls backwards.
Qualls gets through The Blade's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
The Blade scores a nice knee to the body.
Qualls working hard to break the clinch.
The Blade landing some nice looking knees to the body.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
The Blade lands a knee to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The Blade prevents Qualls from breaking the clinch.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
Come on Qualls - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
The Blade lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Qualls or not.
Knees in the clinch landing for The Blade.
Qualls is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but The Blade is keeping busy.
Qualls managing to block the knees to the body from The Blade.
Qualls misses with the head strike.
Qualls tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. The Blade smiles and moves away.
Frank The Blade is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.

The Blade clinches with his opponent.
Qualls wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
The Blade is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Qualls is defending well for now.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Qualls blocks an elbow strike.
The Blade tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Qualls avoids it.
The Blade lands a good knee to the midsection. Qualls won't want to take too many of those.
Qualls is trying to break free.
Qualls on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
The Blade lands a knee to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Frank The Blade dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Noah Qualls's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

The Blade lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
The Blade lands a nice leg kick that just misses Qualls's sensitive parts.

The Blade closes the distance and pushes Qualls back into the cage.
Qualls managing to block the knees to the body from The Blade.
The Blade missing with knees to the body.
Qualls tries to stall but The Blade uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
The Blade scores with a knee to the head.
The Blade keeps control of Qualls as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Qualls working hard to break the clinch.
The Blade tries to land knees in the clinch but Qualls avoids the damage to the body.
The Blade has Qualls pressed against the cage, preventing Qualls from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
The Blade unloads a knee to the mid-section.
The Blade working Qualls over with knees to the body.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. The Blade obliges.
The Blade lands a damaging elbow.
The Blade scores a nice knee to the body.
The Blade tries to land a knee to the head but Qualls blocks with his arms.
The Blade lands a body shot in the clinch.
Qualls tries to break the clinch but The Blade is controlling the position.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
A body shot lands from The Blade.
The Blade lands a body shot in the clinch.
The Blade unloads a knee to the mid-section. Qualls lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
The Blade lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Blade tries a knee to the head but Qualls blocks it.
The Blade landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Qualls takes an elbow to the temple.
The Blade scores with a knee to the head.
Good body shot from The Blade.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. The Blade obliges.
A knee to the head by The Blade.
The Blade scores a nice knee to the body.
The Blade working Qualls over with knees to the body.
The Blade keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Qualls's efforts to push away.
Frank The Blade seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
The Blade tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Qualls's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
With the fighters up against the cage, The Blade throws an elbow but misses.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
The Blade trying to land knees to the body.
Qualls wants to break free but The Blade has control.
The Blade gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Qualls.
The Blade with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
The Blade lands a knee to the body.
The Blade is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Qualls is defending well for now.
The Blade lands an elbow that stopped Qualls in his tracks for a moment.
Qualls is trying to break the clinch but The Blade has him pressed against the cage.
Qualls creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Qualls tries to break free but The Blade pushes him back against the cage.
The Blade tries a knee to the head but Qualls blocks it.
The Blade lands a body shot.
Qualls jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as The Blade walks away with a smile on his face. Qualls gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Qualls throws a head kick that misses.
The Blade fakes the leg kick and cracks Qualls in the body.
Qualls throws a sloppy body shot
and The Blade counters with a big head kick but Qualls shrugs it off.
The Blade throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Qualls.
Frank The Blade is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

The Blade closes the distance and pushes Qualls back into the cage.
Qualls is trying to break the clinch but The Blade has him pressed against the cage.
Qualls taking a breather.
The Blade using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Qualls avoiding damage as The Blade throws knees to the body.
The Blade missing with knees to the body.
The Blade is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.

Qualls tightens his grip and picks The Blade up, before dumping him to the ground. The Blade manages to land in guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Qualls throws and elbow that misses. The Blade uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Qualls's guard. Nice move by The Blade!
The Blade tries to stand but Qualls is controlling from the bottom.
The Blade has been the more effective fighter overall so far.

Qualls is active off his back here, looking for submissions.

Qualls throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
The Blade must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
The Blade thows a big elbow that misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Qualls doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.

Qualls looking for a triangle here. The Blade is fighting it but it looks tight! Qualls pulls the arm across and this one won't last much longer! Nope, The Blade is tapping out - this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:26 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Noah Qualls!