PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Jack Cherry (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Easy Touch (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Cherry
vs
Touch

160 cm
28
135 lbs
6 - 11 - 0

177 cm
25
142 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Tends to cut

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 6 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jack Cherry!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Easy Touch!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Daniel Franklin and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Touch tries to clinch but Cherry is having none of it.

Cherry dives in and scores a takedown into Touch's guard.

Cherry thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Cherry slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Cherry landing strikes.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
The referee asks Cherry politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Cherry prefers to stall for the moment though.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Touch can do anything to dispel that myth.

Cherry tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Cherry has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Touch seems a little lost for a moment, as Cherry dominates the positioning.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The strikes coming from Cherry are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
Cherry sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Touch is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Cherry remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Touch is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Cherry tries to advance to mount but can't.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Touch is pushing Cherry's head away, looking to escape. Cherry manages to hold on to the position though.
Touch takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Touch wants to get back to his feet but Cherry drags him back down.

Cherry has worked his way into a potential kimura here. Touch is trying to get out of the position but his squirming has just got him deeper into trouble. Cherry yanks on the arm and Touch is forced to tap due to a very painful looking submission! Nice work by Cherry.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Jack Cherry!
A relieved looking Jack Cherry thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.