PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Chris Stone (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and BJ Penn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Penn has chosen Awesome as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Stone
vs
Penn

172 cm
28
192 lbs
21 - 7 - 0

185 cm
30
190 lbs
13 - 13 - 1

BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
World class boxer
Heavy handed

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 21 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Chris Stone!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 13 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, BJ Penn!
The judges for this bout are Patrick Alders, Aafke Stam and Daniel Blasius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Stone clinches up with Penn and pushes him back against the ropes.

Stone breaks from the clinch.
Stone throws a body kick that misses.
Chris Stone seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Stone closes the distance and clinches.

Stone pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Penn scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Stone fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Penn looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Penn looks to land a combination. Stone sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
Stone connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Stone's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Penn connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Stone scrambles back to his feet.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Stone has taken the fight to the clinch.
Stone tries a knee to the head but Penn blocks it.
Penn wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Stone using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Penn has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Penn working hard to break the clinch.

Stone escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Stone has Penn up against the ropes in a clinch.

Stone breaks the clinch.
Stone throws a head kick that misses.
Penn scores with a nice strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Stone avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Penn jabbing away but nothing is landing.
A good leg kick by Stone.
Penn takes a swing at Stone's ribcage but misses.
Stone misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Stone misses with a body shot.
Penn tests Stone's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Penn tries to close the distance and clinch up against the ropes but Stone paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Stone takes one on the button.
Stone keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Penn.
Stone throws a head kick that misses.
Stone uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Penn.
Stone fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Penn manages to avoid it.
Stone avoids the body shot from Penn.
Stone uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
A good leg kick by Stone.
Stone throws a head kick that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Stone tries a head kick but it misses.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Stone throws a head kick but Penn moves out of range.

Stone takes the fight into the clinch.
Penn is looking to take this one to the mat.
Stone using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Penn has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Penn wants to break free but Stone has control.
Penn wants to break free but Stone has control.
Stone works on Penn's body with a couple of short punches.
Penn on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Penn wants to take the fight to the mat but Stone manages to get underhooks and keep the fight in the clinch.
Stone throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Penn blocks it with crossed arms.
Penn has dropped down and is looking to force the takedown but it's defended by Stone after a bit of a struggle.
Chris Stone has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of BJ Penn.
Knees to the body from Stone.
Penn changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Stone fights it off and pushes away nicely.

Stone moves into the clinch successfully.
Stone crunches a lovely knee into Penn's ribcage.
Penn looks winded!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Stone is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Stone unloads a knee to the mid-section.

Stone breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Penn tries to keep at a distance but Stone has taken the fight into the clinch.
Penn takes a knee right on the jaw!
Stone landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Penn wants to break free but Stone has control.
Stone landing knees to the head.
Stone lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Stone keeps control of Penn as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Penn takes an elbow to the temple.
Penn has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Penn working hard to break the clinch.
Stone lands a knee to the head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Penn is trying to push Stone away but Stone has him pressed against the ropes, so he's going nowhere.
Penn has Stone pressed up against the ropes and is working for takedown. Stone manages to improve position though and keeps the fight standing.

Stone breaks the clinch.
Penn is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.

Stone gets a clinch.
Stone lands an elbow inside that Penn shrugs off.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Stone manages to pull guard. Let's see whether he can land a sub off his back.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.

Stone looking to try and escape his hips here, looking for a submission. It looks like he's going for a triangle but Penn is defending well. Stone quickly switches to an armbar and extends the arm! Penn has no choice but to tap, to a very quick submission! Wow, that was lightning fast! Stone celebrates on the ropes, with the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Chris Stone!
Chris Stone thanked the fans post fight for their support.