PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Trenton Clements (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dastan Drake (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Clements
vs
Drake

195 cm
20
185 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

185 cm
21
185 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good chin

Good wrestler
Basic striking
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Trenton Clements!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Dastan Drake!
The judges for this bout are Franklyn Lucas, David Schapiro and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Clements tries to clinch there but Drake circles away.
Clements waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Drake.
Drake shoots in looking for a takedown. Clements tries to sprawl out of it but Drake keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Clements manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Clements lands a head kick!

Drake scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.

Drake has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Clements is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Drake yanks on the arm and Clements is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Drake.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Dastan Drake!
Dastan Drake 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.