PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Ryan Sims (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joshua Redding (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sims's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Linkin Park - Bleed it Out. Redding has chosen Alive as his entrance music. Ryan Sims had a look across the ring there at his opponent. He definitely means business

Sims
vs
Redding

179 cm
20
191 lbs
6 - 3 - 0

194 cm
26
190 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Very quick

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Intelligent

Sun-Tzu

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 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Ryan Sims!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joshua Redding!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Valeri Chadov and Vladimir Khabensky.

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.

Sims takes the fight into the clinch.
Sims creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Sims misses with an elbow over the top.
Redding fails to pull the fight into his guard.

Redding drags the fight down to the ground.
Redding working a defensive guard here.
Redding tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Redding is trying to control the position but Sims postures up.
Redding manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Sims manages to get himself to full guard.

Sims tries to land a sweep but no joy.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Redding throwing strikes from guard but Sims blocks nicely.
Sims is trying to control the position but Redding postures up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Redding advances to half guard.
Sims is not content to let Redding control the position.
Redding is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
Sims pushes Redding off looking to stand but Redding dives back in and keeps control.
Redding lands strikes from half guard.
Redding looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Redding not doing much here.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Redding trying to mount his opponent but Sims defends it.
Nice strikes from Redding there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Redding lands with a punch from half guard.
Sims on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Sims tries to get out of the position.
Sims is looking to improve his position.
Redding is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Redding working Sims over with strikes.
Redding looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Sims with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Redding thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sims's head.
Ground and pound from Redding.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Redding lands a nice short elbow.
Sims has hold of Redding's hands but Redding slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Redding thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sims's head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Redding tries to pass the half guard into mount. Sims knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sims blocking the ground and pound attempt from Redding.
Redding has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Redding sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Sims defending well though.
Sims avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Redding.
Redding wants to take a breather but Sims is having none of it.
We've been informed that Redding has been working hard on his conditioning in the buildup to the fight.
Sims tries to roll over but Redding keeps him under control.
Redding is trying to control. Sims wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Redding wants to free his trapped foot but Sims is holding on for dear life with his legs.
Redding lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Sims is staying active underneath Redding, who seems content to just control the action from this position.
Sims knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Redding on the ground.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sims trying to control here.

Redding is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! Sims is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Joshua Redding!
Joshua Redding thanked the fans post fight for their support.