PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Trunks Briefs (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nick Evans (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Trunks Briefs has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Briefs
vs
Evans

170 cm
25
154 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

170 cm
19
149 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

The Empire Clothing and Laundry
Speedy Supps + Laundry

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Trunks Briefs!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Nick Evans!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, Alyssa Summers and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Briefs with a jab.
Evans's coach down at Morbid Conditioning School $450 was telling us pre-fight that they have been working on Evans's balance. Obviously they view that as a key factor in the outcome of this fight.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Evans.
Briefs looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Briefs tries to clinch up.
Briefs tries to close the distance and clinch but Evans swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
A combination from Briefs does no damage.
Evans throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Briefs.
Briefs throws a sloppy head kick

and Evans counters with a nice double leg into guard.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.
Evans working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.

Evans is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.
Evans with a nice head shot there.
Evans controlling from the top position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Evans in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Evans is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Evans passes into half guard.
Evans throwing shots but Briefs is blocking nicely.
Evans throwing shots but Briefs is blocking nicely.
Briefs avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Evans.

Evans is working for a submission of some sort.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Evans has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Briefs defend it? Evans steps over the head and cranks it - Briefs is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Evans!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Nick Evans!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Nick Evans made sure he mentioned The Empire Clothing and Laundry, along with how happy he was to win his fight.