PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Poe Winnie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Billy Durant (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Poe Winnie could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Billy Durant's chin.

Winnie
vs
Durant

178 cm
26
185 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

225 cm
26
300 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter striker
Insanely flexible

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Poe Winnie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Billy Durant!
The judges for this bout are Josh West, Micheangelo Fripello and Colin Fray.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Durant tries to move into range but Winnie moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.

Durant clinches with his opponent.
Winnie avoiding damage.

Winnie has picked Durant up - he's going for a ride! Winnie dumps his opponent to the mat with a thud and settles into half guard.
Winnie throwing shots but Durant is blocking nicely.
Durant keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Durant avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Winnie.
Winnie wants to control but Durant is keeping him busy.
Winnie missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Winnie working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Winnie thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Durant's head.
Durant is refusing to be controlled, as Winnie sits in half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Durant throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Winnie throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Winnie not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Durant blocking the ground and pound attempt from Winnie.
Winnie not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Durant avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Winnie.
Winnie seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Durant does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Winnie not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Winnie wants to free his trapped foot but Durant is holding on for dear life with his legs.

Winnie is trying for a guillotine from the top but the pressure isn't in the right place so Durant is just riding it out for now. Winnie eventually gives up the hold.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Durant avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Winnie.
Winnie 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.

Winnie seems to be working for a kimura but Durant defends the submission attempt.
Winnie not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Durant keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Winnie missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Winnie thows a huge punch but Durant dodges it nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Winnie throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Winnie not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Winnie throwing shots but Durant is blocking nicely.
Winnie sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Durant defending well though.
Winnie winds up and cracks Durant with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Winnie throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Winnie missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Winnie wants to lay and pray for a moment but Durant keeps working.
Winnie missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Winnie thows a huge punch but Durant dodges it nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Durant trying to control here.
Durant keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Winnie is trying to control the action in half guard but Durant is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Winnie missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Winnie takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Durant keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

Winnie is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Durant sees it coming and defends easily.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Winnie is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Winnie sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Durant defending well though.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Poe Winnie dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Durant has managed to clinch.
Winnie just leaning against Durant, taking a breather.
Durant can't break the clinch.
Durant jumps guard but Winnie turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Durant is looking to break free of the clinch but Winnie has double underhooks.
Durant is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Winnie gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Durant tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Winnie smiles and moves away.
Poe Winnie has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Billy Durant.

Durant has taken the fight to the clinch.
Durant is trying to break the clinch but Winnie has him pressed against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Winnie has clasped his hands together around Durant's back... aaand, he's got a takedown into side control. Nicely done.
Winnie lands a decent elbow from side control.
Durant managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Winnie.
Winnie throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Durant dodges the ground and pound from Winnie.
Winnie has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Durant wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Winnie.
Winnie lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Durant is bucking up trying to escape but Winnie cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Winnie looking to control but Durant is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Durant tries to hold on but Winnie pushes him away.
Winnie pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Winnie punching from mount but Durant doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Winnie connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Winnie raining down hammerfists from mount.
Winnie is landing with some decent strikes but Durant is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

Durant is rocked!

It looks like Billy Durant has been cut.
Durant really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Winnie. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Winnie loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Durant scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Winnie land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Winnie stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Poe Winnie!
Poe Winnie decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.