PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dark Matter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Blake Stevenson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dark Matter has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Matter
vs
Stevenson

185 cm
24
205 lbs
8 - 6 - 0

186 cm
25
215 lbs
7 - 10 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

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 8 - 6 - 0, fighting out of New York, Dark Matter!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 10 - 0, fighting out of New York, Blake Stevenson!
The judges for this bout are Columbo Gatti, Joseph Jones and Lou da Vinci.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Stevenson with a poor takedown

so Matter counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Matter is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.

Stevenson is looking for a triangle but Matter pushes his legs off easily.

Matter drops back, looking for a kneebar! Stevenson looks panicked! The fighters roll across the mat, one looking to finish, one looking to escape. Stevenson looks to have wriggled free... Yes, he's got his leg free and he's dived into side control! Good work there from Stevenson!
Matter gets back to half guard.

Stevenson is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Matter doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Stevenson.
The fighters are battling for position here. Matter manages to regain full guard. Nice work.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Matter is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Stevenson has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Matter is working away from the top position though.
Matter perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Matter is trying for a kimura here. Stevenson looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! Matter wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Dark Matter!