PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rashad Evans (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pauly Dee (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Dee's choice of entrance music: Get Crazy-LMFAO. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Evans
vs
Dee

178 cm
20
205 lbs
3 - 2 - 1

185 cm
27
215 lbs
9 - 1 - 0

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Good chin

Powerful takedowns
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Hilo, Rashad Evans!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Pauly Dee!
The judges for this bout are Roger Salmon, Micheangelo Fripello and Chris Saunders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Evans misses with a hook. Dee ducked under it nicely.
Dee misses with the combination.
Dee connects with a crisp jab.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Dee, as that shot connected.

Evans gets a double leg takedown into Dee's guard.
Evans throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Dee is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Evans keeping control of the position.
Evans is refusing to be controlled, as Dee sits in half guard.
Dee working over Evans with some ground and pound. Evans looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Evans moves into full guard.
Dee trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evans tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Dee throwing strikes but missing.
Evans keeping moving, preventing Dee from controlling successfully.
Evans wants to stand and escape but Dee is having none of it.
Evans can't keep his opponent in guard - Dee advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Dee wants to lay and pray for a moment but Evans keeps working.
Dee sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Evans defending well though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Evans is not content to let Dee control the position.
Dee performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Dee is pressing down on Evans's thigh, looking to free his foot. Evans is holding on for now.
Dee not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Evans moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Dee scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Evans utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dee wants to pass the guard but Evans is keeping the position.
Dee is working Evans over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Dee accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Dee trying to control the position from guard on top but Evans is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Dee pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Evans is keeping the position for now.
Dee sitting in guard here, content to control.
Dee tries to free his leg and advance position but Evans is retaining full guard.
Evans working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Dee.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dee in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Dee landing with the ground and pound.
Dee trying to control but Evans is working from the bottom.
Dee with a nice head shot there.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dee looking to pass the guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Dee trying to control the position from guard on top but Evans is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Dee tries to free his leg and advance position but Evans is retaining full guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pauly Dee dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Evans takes one to the side of the head.
Evans wants to slow Dee down by chopping away at his legs.
Dee lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Dee tries for a takedown but Evans sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Dee's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Dee duly obliges.
Decent striking displayed by Evans there.
An inside leg kick from Evans misses.
Dee works over Evans's head and body with a nice combination.

It looks like Rashad Evans 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!
No luck for Evans with that takedown attempt.
A swing and a miss from Evans.
Dee scores with the left hand. Evans knows he should have avoided that one.
Dee keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Evans.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Evans lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Dee has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Dee and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Evans misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Dee throws out a powerful jab.
Dee misses with a jab, cross combination.
Dee throws a series of strikes that have Evans backpedaling.
The fighters circle momentarily. Dee darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Dee stuns Evans with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evans throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Dee lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.

Evans fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Dee to the ground. Evans is now in Dee's guard.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Dee bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Evans's guard.
Dee trying to control the position from guard on top but Evans is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Dee passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Evans on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Evans tries to get out of the position.
Dee controls the position from side control.
Dee tries to move into full mount but can't pass Evans's legs.
Dee throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dee scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Evans to see if he's OK.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sloppy strikes there by Dee.
The ground and pound from Dee seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Evans is trying to get back to half guard.
Dee throwing shots but missing, from side control.
You can see the frustration on Evans's face as Dee controls the position.
Evans taking punishment in the form of punches.
Evans takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Dee scoring with punches from side control.
Dee in side control, throwing shots but Evans defends.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dee throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Dee wants to control for a moment but Evans uses the opportunity to move back to half guard.
Dee tries to pass the half guard into mount. Evans knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Dee not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Evans is looking to escape.
Dee is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Dee with good strikes from the mount here!
Dee scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Evans?

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Dee postures up and connects with a big shot that has rocked Evans badly. He's trying desperately to grab hold of Dee around the waist but Dee pushes him off and unloads with more strikes, forcing the referee to jump in and save him! Dee is the winner by TKO! Dee jumps onto the cage and shouts into the camera. "We did it momma!"

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:23 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Pauly Dee!
Pauly Dee spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.