PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Charles Booth (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andrei Williams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Booth
vs
Williams

189 cm
28
220 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

185 cm
18
200 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Decent knees
Solid chin

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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 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Charles Booth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Andrei Williams!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, James Glass and Steven Brown.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

A head kick lands from Williams that sends Booth to the canvas. Booth tries to scramble back to his feet but Williams brings him back down into side control.

It looks like Charles Booth has been cut.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Booth manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.

Booth makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!
Williams tries to clinch but Booth moves away

and Booth counters with a shoot takedown. Williams fights it but they end up in guard.
Williams keeping moving, preventing Booth from controlling successfully.
Booth passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Williams managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Booth.
Booth throws a strike aimed at the side of Williams's head but Williams avoids it well.
Williams is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Booth working the ground and pound but Williams is defending the strikes.
Booth lands a decent elbow from side control.
You can see the frustration on Williams's face as Booth controls the position.
Booth sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Williams is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Booth tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Sloppy strikes there by Booth.
Booth misses with the ground and pound.
Booth moving around in side mount but really he's just happy to control for now.
Booth postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Booth fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Williams is working to avoid the ground and pound but Booth connects with a decent elbow.
Williams is trying to escape the position but Booth is controlling the position.
Williams wants to escape from the position here - easier said than done!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Booth postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Booth working the head and body with strikes.
Williams is not content to let Booth control the position.
Booth throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Booth postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Booth throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
An elbow from Booth crashes against the mat.
Booth scores with punches from side control.
Booth looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Williams is avoiding damage well.
Booth tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Booth is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Williams will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Booth in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The ground and pound from Booth seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Booth with the ground and pound but Williams regains half guard under the barage of strikes.
Booth is trying to control. Williams wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Nice strikes from Booth there.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Booth sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Williams defending well though.
Booth not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Williams avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Booth.
Booth not landing any meaningful shots this time.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Charles Booth dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Charles Booth's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

Booth tries to bum rush Williams with a series of wild strikes but Williams uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Williams wants to clinch up but Booth keeps it at a distance.

Booth clinches up against the cage.

Williams is fighting off a takedown attempt but Booth is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Williams to the mat. Williams regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
Booth postures up in Williams's guard and throws a big left but Williams blocks it.
Booth has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Williams wants to stand up but Booth is controlling him.
Booth loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Booth throwing strikes but missing.
Williams preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Booth wants to pass the guard but Williams is keeping the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Booth trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Booth slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Booth throws an elbow but Williams slips to the side and avoids it well.
Booth looks up at the clock and then as Williams takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Booth smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Booth throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Williams dodges the ground and pound from Booth.
Williams takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
The strikes coming from Booth are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
A bit of a lull in the action. I'm sure it will pick up again soon... even if the ref has to physically pick them up and put them back on their feet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Booth working the head and body with strikes.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Booth moves into full mount!
Williams really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Booth. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Williams avoids a series of strikes thrown by Booth.
Williams is breathing heavily.
Booth fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Booth working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Booth lands a big elbow.
Booth dominating with strikes here.

Williams is rocked!
A big strike lands for Booth! That's really hurt Williams and he's turned his back - Booth keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Booth jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Charles Booth!
Charles Booth very nearly forgot to thank Broken Halo Pride Nutrition amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.