PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Tyron Lawler (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tom Smith (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Smith has chosen Five Finger Death Punch as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Lawler
vs
Smith

182 cm
26
173 lbs
2 - 6 - 0

177 cm
25
190 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Intelligent

Atlantis

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 2 - 6 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Tyron Lawler!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Tom Smith!
The judges for this bout are Dirk Anderson, Daniel Franklin and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Smith jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Smith looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Smith throws out a loose jab but Lawler uses good head movement to avoid it.
Lawler dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Lawler fails to land the takedown.
Smith is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Smith takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Lawler gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

so Smith counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Lawler avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Lawler bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Smith's guard.

Smith managing to control the position.
Let's hope that Smith has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lawler has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Lawler working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Lawler throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Lawler stopping the sweep attempt from Smith.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Smith is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Smith is still trying to improve position.
Lawler trying to control but Smith is working from the bottom.
The referee claps his hands together and tells the fighters to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Smith is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Lawler misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Smith.
A punch combination from Lawler misses.
Smith throws out a counter right but Lawler avoids it with no problem.
Smith doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Lawler shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Smith eats them both and turns towards Lawler to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Smith misses with a low kick.

Lawler changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Smith looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Lawler working the head and body with strikes.
Lawler fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Smith avoids any damage from the ground and pound of Lawler.
Lawler happy to just control the position for now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lawler misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Lawler throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Lawler trying to control the position but Smith is working away.

Lawler tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Lawler controlling the position from side mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
You can see the frustration on Smith's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Smith tries to buck Lawler off but Lawler is having none of it.
Smith is being controlled here.
Lawler scores with a couple of short elbows.
Smith managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Lawler.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Lawler lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Smith down.
Smith takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tyron Lawler dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Smith closes the distance and clinches up with Lawler, looking for a takedown. Smith pushes Lawler against the cage but Lawler circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Lawler throwing a counter right hand but Smith manages to avoid it.
Tyron Lawler is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Lawler misses with the combination.
Smith shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Lawler as he jumps to the side.

Lawler drives through with a takedown into guard.

Smith is rocked!
Lawler chips away with some ground and pound.
Smith is still in real trouble! Can Lawler finish him?
Smith is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Lawler content to stall in guard here.

Smith has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Lawler can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.

Lawler 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.
Lawler postures up from his opponent's guard, before exploding into some vicious ground and pound! Smith covers up, he's hurt! Lawler keeps throwing the strikes, glancing at the referee... Will he stop it?? One more big shot from Lawler and the ref steps in to end the fight! Lawler can't hide his delight as he celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:59 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tyron Lawler!
Tom Smith spoke after the fight, saying 'I feel real SUCKY right now...But Im a fast learner and I promise my return will be different !'.