PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Dante Evangelisti (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Forever War (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). War has chosen War Ensemble as his entrance music. Dante Evangelisti has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Evangelisti
vs
War

183 cm
23
178 lbs
12 - 2 - 0

186 cm
23
178 lbs
13 - 4 - 2

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Convicted Trap House
Conviction

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dante Evangelisti!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 4 - 2, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Forever War!
The judges for this bout are Cecil Peabody, Robert Twigg and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Evangelisti avoids a kick to the body.
A nice leg kick lands there from War.
War looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Evangelisti fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and War has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Evangelisti throws a right and a left that War avoids nicely.
War pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! War crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Evangelisti - the referee stops the clock and War gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Evangelisti. War manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
War jabs Evangelisti right on the nose. Evangelisti blinks but takes it well.
Evangelisti takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Evangelisti bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Evangelisti on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Evangelisti dips to his left and cracks War with an uppercut!
Evangelisti checks the leg kick.
Evangelisti scores with a jab to the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Evangelisti throws an overhand right that lands on War's shoulder, as War tries to avoid the shot.
Evangelisti misses the shot to the body.
Evangelisti ducks down and throws a hook to the body but War moves away.
Evangelisti uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from War.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evangelisti throws a hook but War avoids it easily.
Evangelisti misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from War.
War throws a leg kick but Evangelisti moved away.
Evangelisti moves out of range of the body kick.
Forever War seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Evangelisti throws a poor cross that misses

and War holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Nice body punch from Evangelisti.
War swings away with an uppercut that misses.
War misses with a punch to the body.
War misses with the head strike.
War tries to throw a body punch but Evangelisti avoids it by throwing War back against the cage.
War takes an elbow to the temple.
Evangelisti is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
War lands a right hand.
War lands a shoulder strike.
War misses with a short punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
War misses with a shot to the kidneys.
War tries to work over Evangelisti's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
A right hand to the body from Evangelisti.
War lands a shoulder strike.
Evangelisti tried to land a shot to the body but connects with War's elbow.
Evangelisti takes a shot to the head.
War works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
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!
Evangelisti can't find room to land a body shot as War controls the action.
Evangelisti blocks a body shot from War.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for War.
War throws a punch but it's blocked by Evangelisti.

Evangelisti breaks the clinch.
Evangelisti rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but War moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Evangelisti misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
War is looking to clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
War connects with a right hand. Evangelisti shakes it off.
War misses with a wild combination.
A big right from Evangelisti misses.
Evangelisti throws an overhand right that lands on War's shoulder, as War tries to avoid the shot.
War catches Evangelisti with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Evangelisti misses with a jab, cross combination.
War ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Evangelisti tries a head kick but it misses.
Evangelisti just misses with a punch to the body.
War scores with a jab. Evangelisti acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
War connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
War fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Evangelisti manages to avoid it.
Evangelisti pivots, looking for a leg kick but War is out of range and Evangelisti settles back down.
War misses the body punch
enabling Evangelisti to counter with a crisp jab.
War bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
War swings away with a leg kick that misses.
War wants to slow Evangelisti down by chopping away at his legs.
War checks a low kick from Evangelisti.
Evangelisti throws a head kick that misses.
Evangelisti blocks the body kick.
War connects with a looping right hand.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Evangelisti takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
The fighters circling - War throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
War throws a leg kick but Evangelisti sees it coming and moves out of range.
War slips a jab and a cross from Evangelisti.
War pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
War misses with a body shot.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
War tries to clinch up but Evangelisti circles away and keeps his distance.
Evangelisti keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
War keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Evangelisti fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Forever War dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

War doesn't manage to clinch there - Evangelisti circles away.
Evangelisti scores with a body shot.
Good shot there by War.
Evangelisti will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
War slips a jab from Evangelisti.
War ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
A chopping leg kick lands by Evangelisti.
Evangelisti throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
War scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Evangelisti doesn't seem bothered though.
Evangelisti lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
War moves out of range as Evangelisti throws a body kick.
Evangelisti steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from War. That one must have hurt.
War checks a leg kick.
Evangelisti misses with an uppercut.
Evangelisti takes a kick to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
War throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
War misses with an uppercut.
Evangelisti scores with a leg kick.
Evangelisti throws a nice looking combination but War bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
War throws a jab when Evangelisti was well out of range.
War throws a looping overhand right but Evangelisti ducks down to avoid it.
War moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Nice body kick from War.
Evangelisti on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
A left and a right from Evangelisti both land. Nice combination.
War missing with a left hand there. Evangelisti was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Evangelisti connects with a body shot that sends War's belly button to the back.
War misses with a double jab.
War tries to move into range but Evangelisti moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Evangelisti with a body punch. A glancing blow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
War ducks under a wild hook from Evangelisti.
War swings for the body but Evangelisti moves out of range.
Evangelisti moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Evangelisti lands a leg kick that knocks War off balance momentarily.
War dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Evangelisti. That did some damage!
A solid leg kick lands there for Evangelisti.
Evangelisti throws a looping overhand right but War ducks down to avoid it.
War tries to clinch up.
A jab from War finds it's way through Evangelisti's defenses.
War connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
War fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Evangelisti looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Evangelisti takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
War keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Evangelisti is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by War.
War looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

War closes the distance and clinches.
Evangelisti throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but War blocks it with crossed arms.
Evangelisti makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.

Evangelisti manages to break the clinch.
Evangelisti misses with a leg kick.
War misses with a hook to the body
and Evangelisti counters with an inside leg kick.
Evangelisti throws a hook but War avoids it easily.
Dante Evangelisti is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
War misses the shot to the body.
War just misses with a punch to the body.
Evangelisti jabbing away but nothing is landing.
War swinging wildly here.
War moves out of range of the strikes.
Evangelisti scores with a head kick. War tried to block it but didn't get his arm up in time.
War tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Evangelisti was well out of range. Poor timing from War.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Evangelisti looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
War slips under a jab.
War motions for Evangelisti to come forward. War throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
War slips a straight right by Evangelisti.
Evangelisti lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Evangelisti cracks a nice hook into War's ribs.
Evangelisti keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Evangelisti shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. War eats them both and turns towards Evangelisti to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Forever War seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Evangelisti turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Evangelisti tries a low kick but War avoids it.
Evangelisti keeps the fight on the outside.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
No joy there for Evangelisti, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Evangelisti thows a left - swing and a miss!
War thows a left - swing and a miss!
Evangelisti digs a good hook to War's body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Dante Evangelisti will probably get the nod.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!

This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Evangelisti.
A telegraphed right hand from War misses the target.
Evangelisti has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Evangelisti there as he acknowledges the shot.
A jab from Evangelisti does it's job there.
Evangelisti tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Evangelisti throws a head kick that misses.
Nice shot by War.
War fails to land with a series of punches.
War is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
War moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.

Evangelisti gets tackled into the cage by War. War maintains the clinch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Evangelisti.
War presses Evangelisti against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
A short right hand to the side of the head by War.

That's one minute gone in the round.
War lands with a short shot to the head.
War misses with a short punch on the inside.
War pushes Evangelisti back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
War misses with some punches.
War lands a hook that snaps the head of Evangelisti backwards.
War doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
War tries to throw a body punch but Evangelisti avoids it by throwing War back against the cage.
War tries a body shot but Evangelisti blocks it.
War lands a shot to the body.
Evangelisti throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
With the fighters up against the cage, Evangelisti throws an elbow but misses.
War fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
War doesn't land with the attempted body shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
War misses with a body punch.
Evangelisti blocks a body shot from War.
Evangelisti stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
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!
With the fighters clinched against the cage, War creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Evangelisti blocks an uppercut.
Evangelisti lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Forever War has been cut.
Evangelisti crunches a lovely knee into War's ribcage.
War misses with a hook from the clinch.

Evangelisti pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
War takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Decent striking displayed by War there.
Evangelisti misses with a two punch combination.
Evangelisti uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from War.
Evangelisti misses with a two punch combination.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Evangelisti throws a leg kick that misses.
Evangelisti lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
War's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Nice shot lands for Evangelisti.
Good leg kick by War there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
War throws a left and a right that both miss
and Evangelisti counters with an inside leg kick.
Evangelisti thows a body shot but no joy.
Evangelisti throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
War lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
War takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
War keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
War looks to land a left hand but Evangelisti moved out of range nicely.
War stuns Evangelisti with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Evangelisti blocks a head kick by War.
Evangelisti checks a leg kick nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
War misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Evangelisti.
A left lands for Evangelisti.
Evangelisti uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from War.
War misses with a leg kick.
Evangelisti displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as War throws out the jab.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Evangelisti looks to land a body kick but War moved away.
Crunch! Evangelisti slams his shin into War's torso.
War punishes Evangelisti's body with a nice straight punch.
War misses with a straight left.
War tries to clinch up.
No joy there for Evangelisti, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
War lands a jab to the head.
Evangelisti looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
War throws a hook but Evangelisti blocks it.
War avoids a low kick by using good footwork.

And that's the end of the fight!
Forever War comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think War has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.

Judge Cecil Peabody scores the fight for Forever War!
Judge Robert Twigg scores the fight for Forever War!
Judge Frank Dennis scores the fight for Forever War!

Forever War wins by unanimous decision!