PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Arth Tour (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Charleston (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be a great matchup!

Tour
vs
Charleston

175 cm
25
152 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

171 cm
25
151 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Inexperienced

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Arth Tour!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, James Charleston!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Timothy Bukovac and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Charleston misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Nice defenses there by Charleston.
Charleston tries to clinch but fails miserably

and Tour counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Charleston's guard now.
Tour showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Tour seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Charleston for as long as he can get away with.
Tour distracts Charleston with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Tour trying to control but Charleston is working from the bottom.

Charleston has his foot on Tour's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Tour works his way back into a safe position though.
Tour is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Charleston is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Tour stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Charleston swivels though and keeps the full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tour postures up.

Tour avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

Charleston looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Tour working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Charleston's head.
Tour landing some decent shots from guard.
Tour keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Charleston's head.
Tour with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Tour trying to control but Charleston is working from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Charleston is looking for a triangle but Tour pushes his legs off easily.
Tour works over Charleston with some ground and pound from guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Tour is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Tour wants to control from the top but Charleston keeps moving.
Tour controlling from the top position.
Charleston is trying to keep Tour in close.
Tour in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Tour is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Tour scoring with some ground and pound.
Tour seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Charleston trying to control the position.
Tour passes Charleston's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Tour trying to control from Charleston's half guard. Charleston has other ideas though and has regained full guard.
Tour content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Charleston wants to sweep but no luck.
Charleston working a defensive guard here.
Tour cracks Charleston with a solid left hand.
Tour showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Tour trying to control but Charleston is working from the bottom.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Charleston is trying to keep Tour in close.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Tour's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Tour in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Tour trying to control the position from guard on top but Charleston is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
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!
Tour with a nice head shot there.
Tour postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Charleston working for submissions but it's allowed Tour to get to half guard.
Tour seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Arth Tour 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.

Tour circles away from the clinch attempt.
Tour misses the shot to the body.
Tour throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Tour just misses with a punch to the body.
Charleston is looking to clinch.
Charleston fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Tour.
Charleston misses with a low kick as Tour jumps back.
James Charleston is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Tour works Charleston's body with a nice hook.

Tour gets a takedown into half guard.
Ground and pound from Tour.
Arth Tour overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Charleston on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Charleston is looking to get full guard. It looks like he might be successful but at the last minute Tour jumps into side control!
Tour working the ground and pound from side control.
Charleston looks to move to half guard but instead Tour has passed into mount! Damn!
Tour raining down shots from the mount!
Tour cracks Charleston with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Charleston keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Tour lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Charleston hang on?
Tour landing strikes from the mount.

Charleston is rocked!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Tour landing strikes from the mount and Charleston is in trouble!
Charleston is still in real trouble! Can Tour finish him?
Tour postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Charleston in real trouble here! The ref calls for Charleston to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Arth Tour!