PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jake Leary (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bertt Hart (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Leary comes to the cage accompanied by Your Mom Likes It. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Leary
vs
Hart

190 cm
20
200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

183 cm
22
210 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Tends to cut

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Jake Leary!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Bertt Hart!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Andrew Berry and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hart shoots in and drives through. Leary sprawls well.
Jake Leary seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Hart tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.

Leary rushes Hart and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Hart tries to land a knee to the head but Leary blocks with his arms.
Leary wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Hart on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Hart lands a knee to the body.
Hart misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Leary.
Hart dodges an elbow strike from Leary.
Hart managing to block the knees to the body from Leary.
Hart landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Leary wants to break free but Hart has control.
Hart wants to stall.
Leary wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Leary misses with a knee to the head.
Hart throws a knee to the head but misses.
Hart landing knees to the head.
Leary using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Hart has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Leary tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Hart looking to stall.
Hart looks gassed!
Hart tries a knee to the head but Leary blocks it.
Leary tries a body shot but Hart blocks it.
Hart using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Leary has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Hart throws a knee to the head but misses.
Leary looking to stall.
Hart using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Leary has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hart lands a knee to the body.
Leary cracks Hart with a nice body shot.
Leary tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Leary softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Leary.
Hart stops a takedown attempt from Leary.
Hart takes an elbow to the forehead.
Leary misses with the head strike.
Hart stalling in the clinch but Leary improves position.
Hart with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Leary looking to throw knees to the head but Hart is blocking nicely.
Knees to the body from Hart.
Hart lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Jake Leary has been cut.
Hart crunches a lovely knee into Leary's ribcage.
Hart tries a knee to the head but Leary blocks it.
Hart tries for a takedown but Leary manages to get underhooks.
Hart prevents Leary from breaking the clinch.
Leary wants to get back to striking at distance but Hart won't allow it.
Hart looking to throw knees to the head but Leary is blocking nicely.
Hart looking to stall.
Leary tries to land knees in the clinch but Hart avoids the damage to the body.
Leary lands a body punch in the clinch.
Hart trying to land knees to the body.
Hart tries to land knees in the clinch but Leary avoids the damage to the body.
Leary misses with a punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hart using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Leary has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Hart with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Leary.
Leary swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Leary on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Leary stalling the fight.
Leary gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Hart missing with knees to the body.

Leary manages to break the clinch.
Leary tries to clinch but Hart is having none of it.
Hart darts in trying to clinch
and Leary counters with an outside leg kick.

Leary shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Leary was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Leary dominating with strikes here.

It looks like Bertt Hart has been cut.

Leary goes for an armbar but he's fallen flat on his backside there and now Hart is on top in guard.
Hart passes Leary's left leg - he's now in half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hart has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Leary is in a horrible position here. Hart smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Hart avoids the attempt from Leary to control.
Leary is squirming around, avoiding Hart's attempts to control the action.
Leary tries to hold on but Hart pushes him away.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hart prevents Leary from getting the reversal.
Hart connects with a couple of good shots from mount.

Jake Leary's cut is getting worse.
Hart wants to control the pace but Leary is squirming around nicely.
Hart lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Leary hang on?

Hart is looking to secure an arm. He's managed it! He's pivoting for an armbar - that looks tight! But Leary has managed to get out of it and now he's in a dominant position. Nice work from Leary!
Hart manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Leary manages to get himself to full guard.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Leary trying to control the position.
Hart slips nicely into half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bertt Hart dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Leary closes the distance and clinches.
Hart misses with a knee to the head.
Leary missing with knees to the body.
Leary on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Leary misses with a body punch.
Hart looking to throw knees to the head but Leary is blocking nicely.
Hart tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Leary is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Hart is keeping busy.
Hart tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Hart scores with a knee to the head.
Leary with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

Leary drags the fight down to the ground.
Leary thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Hart lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Hart won't allow Leary to sweep him here.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Leary keeping moving, preventing Hart from controlling successfully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hart postures up.
Hart sitting in guard here, content to control.
Hart lands a couple of digs.
Leary controls Hart momentarily but Hart frees himself.
Hart has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Leary thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fight is doing enough on the ground.
Leary fails with an attempt to clinch.
Leary clinches but Hart breaks the clinch

and Hart counters with a takedown into side control.
Leary knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Hart on the ground.
Leary can't do much from the bottom here.
Bertt Hart has got the better of the ground game so far.
Hart working the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Leary takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Leary manages to get back to half guard.
Leary is looking to control Hart's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Leary avoid being mounted?
Hart uses his free foot to push down on Leary's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Leary.
Hart lands a big shot to the head and Leary winces in pain. He's tapped out due to strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:43 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Bertt Hart!