PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jake Noob (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Damien OQuinn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying OQuinn's choice of entrance music: King Gordy - Damian. Damien OQuinn has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Jake Noob's chin.

Noob
vs
OQuinn

200 cm
26
170 lbs
1 - 4 - 0

183 cm
22
165 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

Good takedowns
Solid boxing
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Granite chin

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 1 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Jake Noob!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Damien OQuinn!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Reed Andrews and Franklyn Lucas.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Noob swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Noob fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but OQuinn is out of range.
Noob keeps the fight on the outside.

OQuinn gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
OQuinn pressing his opponent against the cage.
OQuinn connects with a knee to the head.

It looks like Jake Noob has been cut.
Noob has a couple of punches blocked by OQuinn.
OQuinn tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Noob avoids it.
Noob takes a knee to the side of the body.
OQuinn blocking some punches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knees in the clinch landing for OQuinn.
Noob lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of OQuinn backwards.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as OQuinn takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
OQuinn's coach down at Elite MMA Gym was telling us pre-fight that they have been working on OQuinn's balance. Obviously they view that as a key factor in the outcome of this fight.
OQuinn blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
OQuinn blocks a body shot from Noob.
OQuinn unloads a knee to the mid-section.
OQuinn stalling against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Noob working aggressively here.
Knees to the body from OQuinn.
OQuinn missing with knees to the body.
OQuinn misses with a knee to the head.
Knees in the clinch landing for OQuinn.
OQuinn looking to throw knees to the head but Noob is blocking nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
OQuinn blocks an uppercut.
OQuinn is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
OQuinn blocking some punches.
Noob tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Noob really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
OQuinn is pushing Noob up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
OQuinn misses with a knee to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Knees in the clinch landing for OQuinn.
Noob swings away with an uppercut that misses.
OQuinn landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Come on OQuinn - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Noob misses with a hook from the clinch.
Noob avoiding damage as OQuinn throws knees to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Damien OQuinn dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Jake Noob's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Noob shoots in with a lovely double leg takedown. OQuinn manages to land in full guard to minimise the damage.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Noob's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
OQuinn wants to stand up but Noob is controlling him.
Noob trying to control the position from guard on top but OQuinn is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
OQuinn wants to stand and escape but Noob is having none of it.
OQuinn is wriggling around but Noob manages to pass to half guard.
Noob slips a nice elbow through OQuinn's hands, connecting with OQuinn's forehead.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Noob thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed OQuinn's head.
OQuinn is trying to stand.
OQuinn has hold of Noob's hands but Noob slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Noob trying to control from half guard but OQuinn is working away.
OQuinn is trying to escape back to his feet but Noob uses the scramble to pass into side control.

Noob has hold of OQuinn's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! OQuinn tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Noob cranks the arm and OQuinn screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from OQuinn, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Jake Noob!
Jake Noob very nearly forgot to thank Soul Supremacy Fight Gear amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.
The defeated Damien OQuinn had this to say: 'I just had back surgery, knee surgery,cracked ribs and i was so baked, but good job to my opponent'.