PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Jake Cameron (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sam Synephrine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Synephrine has chosen Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire as his entrance music. I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Sam Synephrine was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Cameron
vs
Synephrine

180 cm
21
180 lbs
3 - 7 - 0

175 cm
24
171 lbs
7 - 14 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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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 3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jake Cameron!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Sam Synephrine!
The judges for this bout are Robert Douchet, Steve Smith and Ian Loll.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Cameron pushes Synephrine up against the cage in a clinch.
Synephrine is pushing Cameron up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.

Synephrine manages to break the clinch.

Synephrine clinches up with Cameron and pushes him back against the cage.
Synephrine manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.

Synephrine manages to break the clinch.
Synephrine keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

Cameron gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Synephrine to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Synephrine throws an elbow that misses. Cameron uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Synephrine's guard. Nice move by Cameron!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Synephrine throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Cameron trying to stand up but can't free himself from Synephrine's guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Synephrine wants to sweep here but Cameron controlling him for the moment.

Synephrine has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Cameron can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.

Synephrine pushes Cameron off and scrambles back to his feet.

Synephrine drives through and clinches with Cameron against the cage.

Synephrine breaks from the clinch.

Cameron clinches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Synephrine pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Synephrine shoots in but no luck this time.
Synephrine showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Cameron.

Synephrine dives in and scores a takedown into Cameron's guard.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Synephrine throws a big elbow that misses.
Cameron keeping full guard, as Synephrine tries to pass.
Synephrine postures up and lands a big shot to Cameron's brow.
Cameron is breathing heavily.
Synephrine throwing strikes from guard but Cameron blocks nicely.
Synephrine advances position into side control!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Synephrine tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.

Synephrine tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Synephrine throws a strike aimed at the side of Cameron's head but Cameron avoids it well.
Synephrine throws an elbow but Cameron slips to the side and avoids it well.
Synephrine working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Synephrine misses with the ground and pound.
The strikes coming from Synephrine are missing the target in this wave of attacks.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Synephrine throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Synephrine misses with the ground and pound.

Synephrine is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Cameron has escaped the position, nice work there.
Synephrine looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Cameron is avoiding damage well.
Synephrine throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Synephrine lands an elbow.

It looks like Jake Cameron has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Synephrine fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Synephrine wants to lay and pray for a moment but Cameron keeps working.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sam Synephrine dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Jake Cameron's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Synephrine shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Cameron blocking the ground and pound attempt from Synephrine.
Synephrine moves into full mount! Cameron won't be happy about that!
Synephrine has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Cameron avoids a series of strikes thrown by Synephrine.
Cameron is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Cameron in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Cameron wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Synephrine.

Synephrine looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cameron avoids a series of strikes thrown by Synephrine.
Synephrine postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Cameron bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Synephrine and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Sam Synephrine!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Sam Synephrine waved his t-shirt featuring Empire Threads - The Best $15 You've Ever Spent!'s logo in front of the cameras.