PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Lenard Baldwin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Rotch (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rotch is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: "Swiss Made". Lenard Baldwin has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Baldwin
vs
Rotch

204 cm
18
177 lbs
2 - 5 - 0

179 cm
18
174 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Lenard Baldwin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Mike Rotch!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, Joseph Jones and Franklyn Lucas.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
We've got one fighter who appears to only be looking to counter and the other not looking particularly aggressive either, so we could be in for a dull fight.
Baldwin fails with the takedown.
Rotch is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.

Baldwin gets a double leg takedown into Rotch's guard.
Baldwin with a nice head shot there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Rotch had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Baldwin defends it easily.

Rotch looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
Baldwin lands a couple of decent looking shots.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Rotch has an active guard here but Baldwin has managed to pass into half guard.
Baldwin seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

Baldwin is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Rotch is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.

Baldwin is working for a kimura but Rotch is defending it quite comfortably.

Baldwin in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Rotch tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Baldwin!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Lenard Baldwin!
The defeated Mike Rotch had this to say: 'Fuck...I hate lose but when the oponent is the strogents we can do nothing...congratulations to the winner'.