PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jason Martinez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Maxwell The Priest (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Maxwell The Priest is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Martinez
vs
The Priest

190 cm
25
200 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

200 cm
26
205 lbs
7 - 7 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
Knockout power

STEEL PENN'S SKIN SHOP / MONEY EXCHANGE

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Jason Martinez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Maxwell The Priest!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martinez looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Martinez falls off balance throwing a combination

and The Priest counters with a nice double leg into side control. Martinez won't be happy with that.
Martinez is looking to get back to his feet here but The Priest is keeping cool and he's managed to take Martinez's back.

Martinez defending nicely against the rear naked choke attempt.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

The Priest is persistently looking for the submission but Martinez is defending it well.

The Priest is working hard for the rear naked choke here.
Martinez is trying to break free.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Martinez manages to reverse the position and now he's in The Priest's guard. Nice work there by Martinez.
The Priest keeping moving, preventing Martinez from controlling successfully.
The Priest utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Martinez looking to sit in guard and control but The Priest gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

The Priest thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.

That's two 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.

Martinez looking for submissions from the bottom but instead The Priest passes into half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Martinez kicks off The Priest and gets to his feet.

Martinez feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Martinez scoring with some ground and pound.
The Priest keeping moving, preventing Martinez from controlling successfully.
Martinez is looking to stand up but The Priest won't let him.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Martinez looking to sit in guard and control but The Priest gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Martinez kicks The Priest off and gets to his feet.
Martinez is breathing heavily.
Martinez tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but The Priest paws at him with a jab and circles away.
The Priest circles away from the clinch attempt.
Martinez is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Martinez is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Martinez tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. The Priest manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Martinez shoots for a takedown but The Priest saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Martinez doesn't manage to clinch there - The Priest circles away.
Martinez tries to clinch but The Priest moves out of range.
Martinez tries to close the distance and clinch but The Priest swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

The Priest gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Martinez to score an easy takedown into full guard.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Martinez has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of The Priest is proving hard to escape from.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Maxwell The Priest dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

The Priest stuffs the takedown attempt from Martinez. Martinez gets slowly back to his feet.
A head kick by Martinez misses

and The Priest counters with a shoot takedown. Martinez fights it but they end up in guard.

Martinez working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. The Priest doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. The Priest manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
The Priest stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Martinez swivels though and keeps the full guard.
The Priest advances position into side control!
Martinez tries to improve position but can't.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Martinez tries to strike but it doesn't land.

That's one minute gone in the round.

The Priest working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Martinez throws a couple of punches but he's in a bad position and they don't land.
Martinez tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but The Priest wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.

The Priest wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Martinez, who protects the arm well.
Martinez wants to control but The Priest postures up.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martinez wants to get back to his feet but The Priest drags him back down.
The Priest gets to mount! Martinez was on the offensive and wasn't defending properly.
Martinez knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for The Priest on the ground.

The Priest working to secure an arm triangle but it's not happening for him just yet.
Martinez is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Maxwell The Priest has got the better of the ground game so far.
Martinez flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
The Priest works his way to his opponent's back.
Martinez has the hand control, trying to stop the rear naked choke.

Martinez defends a rear naked choke attempt by controlling one of The Priest's arms.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Martinez breaks The Priest's hooks off and manages to turn into his guard.
Martinez keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of The Priest's head.
The Priest keeping full guard, as Martinez tries to pass.
Martinez postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
The Priest tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Martinez stays in close to The Priest's body and controls the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
The Priest keeping moving, preventing Martinez from controlling successfully.
Martinez is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Martinez is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.

Martinez stands up and waves to The Priest to follow him.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Martinez misses with a series of wild punches.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Maxwell The Priest showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

Martinez scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Martinez sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. The Priest defending well though.
Martinez tries to stand and escape but The Priest actually recovers to full guard.
Martinez wants to pass the guard but The Priest is keeping the position.
Martinez trying to control the position from guard on top but The Priest is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Martinez looking to control the position here, rather than advance.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Martinez throws a strike but The Priest rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

Martinez throws his legs up looking to secure a triangle. Oh, that looks pretty tight, I gotta say! The Priest escapes and throws Martinez's legs to the side, diving into side control!
Martinez is looking for a sweep.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Martinez is trying to get back to his feet.
The Priest advances to full mount.
Martinez throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Martinez throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
The Priest avoids the attempt from Martinez to control.
Martinez tries to buck The Priest off but The Priest takes his back!

Martinez is staying cool under pressure, defending well against the rear naked choke attempt from his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Priest has the hooks in. Martinez is trying to push off one leg but he has to do so cautiously to avoid being submitted.
Martinez tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!
Martinez's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
The Priest is looking to work his way around to Martinez's back. He needs to be careful though, as he's in danger of losing this dominant position.
Martinez is in all sorts of trouble here.

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.
Martinez wants to get back to his feet.

The Priest has control of Martinez's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Martinez regains control of the situation pretty easily.
The Priest won't let Martinez get back to his feet... He wants to keep the fight where it is for now.

The Priest working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Martinez looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by The Priest! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Maxwell The Priest!