PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Grease St Pierre (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lee Christmas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). St Pierre comes to the ring accompanied by Jag - Worst Nightmare. Christmas has chosen Get Up as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Grease St Pierre has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

St Pierre
vs
Christmas

175 cm
23
175 lbs
10 - 4 - 0

175 cm
23
181 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Grease St Pierre!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Lee Christmas !
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
St Pierre misses with a right hand
and Christmas counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
St Pierre uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Christmas .
St Pierre just misses with a punch to the body.
St Pierre looks to land a right hand but Christmas moved out of range.
Christmas swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
St Pierre shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Christmas as he avoids it easily.
St Pierre fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Christmas walks into a left hand.
Christmas slips under a jab.
Christmas lunges at St Pierre with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by St Pierre's hand.
St Pierre misses with a left hand
and Christmas counters with a nice leg kick.
Christmas throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
Lee Christmas is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Christmas takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Christmas ducks under a wild hook from St Pierre.
St Pierre misses with a hook. Christmas ducked under it nicely.

St Pierre shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Christmas tries to roll over but St Pierre keeps him under control.
Christmas controlling the position well.
St Pierre tries to pass the half guard into mount. Christmas knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre wants to take a breather but Christmas is having none of it.
Christmas tries to roll over but St Pierre keeps him under control.
St Pierre looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Christmas wants to control but St Pierre is keeping busy.
Christmas is trying to stand.
St Pierre wants to control but Christmas is keeping him busy.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
St Pierre throws a big shot that misses.

St Pierre drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Christmas wants to control but St Pierre postures up.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Christmas is trying to get back to his feet.
St Pierre wants to control but Christmas is keeping him busy.
Christmas is trying to get back to half guard. He's pushing on St Pierre's leg. He's managed it. Nice work.
Christmas is looking to control St Pierre's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Christmas avoid being mounted?
St Pierre has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Christmas in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Christmas is squirming around, avoiding St Pierre's attempts to control the action.
Christmas wants to try and get back to his feet.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Christmas is in all sorts of trouble here.
Christmas is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
St Pierre is in the full mount, landing strikes.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Christmas is trying desperately to improve position.
Christmas is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Christmas is desperately trying to improve his position but St Pierre has a good base and remains in mount.
Christmas regains half guard.
St Pierre moves nicely into side control.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Christmas on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Christmas can't do much from the bottom here.
St Pierre cracks Christmas with a big elbow.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.

St Pierre is trying to get an arm triangle but Christmas is defending well.
St Pierre landing strikes.
St Pierre wants to control but Christmas is keeping him busy.
Christmas is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked St Pierre off and has taken his back!

That's six minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre tries to escape the position.
St Pierre tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!
St Pierre is squirming around, avoiding Christmas 's attempts to control the action.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
St Pierre is wriggling around trying to escape.
Christmas tries to stand up but he's trapped just for the moment.
St Pierre is wriggling around trying to escape.
St Pierre manages to regain half guard. Good work.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Christmas wants to take a breather but St Pierre is having none of it.

St Pierre actively working from the bottom here.
St Pierre wants to improve his position but Christmas is controlling well.
Christmas is looking to advance position but St Pierre won't allow it.
St Pierre wants to control but Christmas is keeping busy.
St Pierre tries to get to full guard but Christmas has control of the leg.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre is refusing to be controlled, as Christmas sits in half guard.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
St Pierre is looking to improve his position.
Christmas wants to stand up but St Pierre has a hold of him and won't allow it.
Christmas wants to pass the guard but St Pierre is defending well.
St Pierre wants to get back to full guard but Christmas has mounted him!

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre tries to improve his position but instead Christmas has taken his back!
Christmas tries to keep control of the position but St Pierre is staying busy.
St Pierre trying to control the position but Christmas manages to sink in the hooks.
Christmas struggling to keep hold of the position.
Christmas trying to secure his dominant position for a moment - making sure St Pierre doesn't escape.
St Pierre is trying to break free.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Christmas avoiding St Pierre 's attempts to control his hands.
Christmas trying to control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Grease St Pierre will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! This is the final round!

St Pierre avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Christmas ducks under a wild hook from St Pierre.
Christmas lands a right hook to the body.

St Pierre gets the takedown into side control.
St Pierre wants to lay and pray for a moment but Christmas keeps working.
Christmas is trying to improve his position.
St Pierre tries to cartwheel into mount but he doesn't manage it.
St Pierre wants to lay and pray for a moment but Christmas keeps working.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Christmas is trying to control St Pierre's posture but St Pierre avoids it.
Christmas is trying to buck St Pierre off.
Christmas is not content to let St Pierre control the position.
Christmas is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.
Christmas is not content to let St Pierre control the position.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Christmas moves into full guard.
St Pierre pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Christmas is keeping the position for now.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
St Pierre passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Christmas is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Christmas can't do much from the bottom here.
St Pierre prevents Christmas from escaping the position.
St Pierre scoring with punches from side control.
St Pierre landing a few strikes.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
St Pierre trying to control the position but Christmas is working away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Christmas prevents St Pierre from improving position.
A bit of a lull in the action here.
Christmas sneaks back into half guard.
St Pierre is looking to advance position but Christmas won't allow it.
Christmas is looking to get back to full guard here but St Pierre has managed to pass to side control instead.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre has control of an arm but Christmas manages to advance to St Pierre's back!
St Pierre breaks Christmas 's hooks off and manages to turn into his guard.
Christmas working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from St Pierre.
St Pierre is pushing down on Christmas 's leg trying to pass to half guard. Christmas is fighting to maintain full guard but St Pierre has managed to sneak the leg through.
St Pierre is looking to pass Christmas 's guard but actually Christmas recovers to full guard.
Christmas controls St Pierre momentarily but St Pierre frees himself.
St Pierre trying to control but Christmas is working from the bottom.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Christmas had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. St Pierre defends it easily.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre tries to free his leg and advance position but Christmas is retaining full guard.
St Pierre trying to control but Christmas is working from the bottom.

Christmas kicks St Pierre off and gets to his feet.

St Pierre darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
St Pierre throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.

St Pierre is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Christmas has managed to free his arm - good work.

That's six minutes gone in the round.

St Pierre is working for a submission of some sort.
St Pierre wants to pass to mount but Christmas is defending the position.
St Pierre is working hard here to advance position.
Christmas blocking the ground and pound attempt from St Pierre.
St Pierre sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Christmas defending well though.
Christmas tries to roll over but St Pierre keeps him under control.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.

St Pierre is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Christmas wants to get back to his feet.
Christmas trying to control here.
Christmas moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Christmas keeping moving, preventing St Pierre from controlling successfully.
Christmas wants to sweep but no luck.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre trying to control but Christmas is working from the bottom.
Christmas keeping full guard, as St Pierre tries to pass.
St Pierre slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Christmas pushes St Pierre away and creates a bit of space to escape. He's almost out here... but no, St Pierre gets a good hold of his legs and remains firmly in side control.
St Pierre wants to control but Christmas is keeping him busy.
St Pierre tries to advance to mount but Christmas denies him.
St Pierre wants to stand but Christmas has his arm trapped.
Christmas manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
St Pierre wants to get back to full guard.
It looks like Christmas is going to stand back up.

Christmas is looking for a kimura but St Pierre is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Christmas to get the leverage.

Christmas stands up out of the half guard.
Christmas is breathing heavily.
St Pierre misses with a body shot.
St Pierre throws out a loose jab but Christmas uses good head movement to avoid it.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Christmas throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Christmas connects with the punch.

And that's the end of the fight!
Grease St Pierre showed his dominance in that final round.
I think St Pierre has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Jack Bonds scores the fight for Grease St Pierre!
Judge Percy O'Donnell scores the fight for Grease St Pierre!
Judge Frank Antenori scores the fight for Grease St Pierre!

Grease St Pierre wins by unanimous decision!
Grease St Pierre took to the mic in his post fight interview and said 'Id break Romo Silvas arm now after these game engine changes!'.