PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Francois La Poulet (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Roland Deschain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). La Poulet's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, "chicken dance" song. Deschain has chosen Giving In-- As made famous by Adema as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

La Poulet
vs
Deschain

186 cm
29
192 lbs
10 - 10 - 0

185 cm
26
197 lbs
10 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good knees
Very strong

ADCC Champion
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Global MMA Gear

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 10 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Francois La Poulet!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Roland Deschain!
The judges for this bout are Eddie Farnsworth, John Roberts and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A head kick by La Poulet misses
and Deschain counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps La Poulet thinking.
Deschain connects with a nice looking jab.
La Poulet throws a head kick but Deschain moves out of range.
Deschain avoids the head kick by La Poulet.
La Poulet looks to clinch
enabling Deschain to counter with a crisp jab.
La Poulet misses with a kick to the body.
Francois La Poulet seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
La Poulet throws a sloppy head kick
enabling Deschain to counter with a crisp jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
La Poulet throws a leg kick that is checked
and Deschain counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
La Poulet throws a sloppy body shot
and Deschain counters with a straight right hand.
La Poulet takes one to the side of the head.
Deschain lands a jab to La Poulet's midsection.
La Poulet throws a lazy head kick
and Deschain connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
La Poulet throws a lazy head kick
and Deschain counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
La Poulet closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
La Poulet throws a sloppy head kick

so Deschain counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Deschain throwing strikes but missing.
Deschain controls from within his opponent's guard.
Deschain keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of La Poulet's head.
Deschain throwing strikes from guard but La Poulet blocks nicely.
Deschain postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Deschain controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
La Poulet looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
La Poulet keeping moving, preventing Deschain from controlling successfully.

OK we're going to have a standup here. Roland Deschain hasn't been effective enough on the ground and the referee wants a restart.
La Poulet throws a left and a right that both miss
and La Poulet takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
La Poulet throws a lazy head kick

and Deschain decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in La Poulet's guard.
Deschain is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Deschain has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Deschain trying to control the position from guard on top but La Poulet is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Deschain trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Deschain throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as La Poulet works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Deschain trying to control but La Poulet is working from the bottom.
Deschain thows a big elbow that misses.
Deschain throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Deschain missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Deschain with a flurry of punches that miss.
Deschain makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Deschain throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as La Poulet works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
La Poulet keeping moving, preventing Deschain from controlling successfully.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Roland Deschain dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

La Poulet throws a head kick but Deschain moves out of range.
Deschain scores with a sloppy right hand. La Poulet should have avoided that one.
La Poulet throws a solid leg kick but Deschain takes the impact on his shin and smiles at La Poulet.
Deschain misses with a lunging right hand
and La Poulet counters with a low kick, right behind Deschain 's knee.
La Poulet misses with a head kick.
Deschain displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as La Poulet throws out the jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
La Poulet fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Deschain has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Roland Deschain seems to be getting the better of the standup.
La Poulet throws a head kick that misses.
Francois La Poulet is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
La Poulet lands with a thumping leg kick.
Deschain with a nice cross.
La Poulet throws a right hand that misses
and Deschain counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
La Poulet throws a lazy head kick
and Deschain cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
La Poulet pulls out of a head kick attempt.
La Poulet throws a sloppy head kick

and Deschain counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
La Poulet knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Deschain on the ground.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Deschain wants to control but La Poulet is keeping him busy.
La Poulet tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Deschain has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
Deschain controlling the position easily from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Deschain postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. La Poulet looks a forlorn figure.
Deschain lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
La Poulet is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Deschain dominating with strikes here.
La Poulet in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

La Poulet is rocked!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Deschain unloads with some vicious shots from mount and La Poulet wants out - he looks towards the referee who steps in to save him! Deschain celebrates on the cage and the crowd goes wild!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Roland Deschain!