PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Etienne Boucher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kam Ba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Boucher might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0ZQpBgeFs. Etienne Boucher has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Boucher
vs
Ba

176 cm
25
135 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
25
130 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Etienne Boucher!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Kam Ba!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Dillan Fox and Ian Loll.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Ba shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Boucher is looking for a sweep. Ba is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Boucher really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

Ba looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

Ba wants to work for an arm triangle but Boucher is really keeping half guard well and defending the submission attempt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Boucher is trying to maintain the position but Ba is very close to passing his half guard.

Boucher looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Boucher trying to control here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.

Ba is working for a submission of some sort.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Boucher throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Boucher trying to control here.
Boucher is looking for a sweep. Ba is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Boucher looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

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

Boucher has hold of a guillotine but he's not going to be able to crank on it really with only half guard, so it's no trouble for Ba. Oh but Boucher has got full guard now! Oh boy! This one could be over very soon! Ba goes limp - he's gone! Boucher jumps up and celebrates with the crowd - fantastic submission finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Etienne Boucher!
Our winner, Etienne Boucher, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.