PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Chadwick Young (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jeff Spoon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Young
vs
Spoon

173 cm
24
279 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

198 cm
25
220 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Likes musicals

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Chadwick Young!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jeff Spoon!
The judges for this bout are Viktor Lagutenko, Igor Prikhodko and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Spoon shoots in and gets a takedown into Young's guard.
Young wants to sweep here but Spoon controlling him for the moment.
Spoon won't allow Young to get back to his feet.
Spoon trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Young utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Young tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Young wants to control here, rather than go for any submissions from the bottom. At least for now.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Young wants to stand but Spoon is controlling the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Young lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.

Spoon escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Young gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Young is fighting to break Spoon's control of his arms but Spoon is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Spoon is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Young is controlling him.
Spoon looking to control.
Young preventing the sweep.
Spoon wants to get back to his feet but Young is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Spoon wants to improve his position but instead Young has moved into half guard.
Young seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Spoon wants to control the action here but instead Young manages to pass to full mount!
Young scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Young unloading with bombs!
Spoon tries to hold on but Young postures up.
Spoon is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Young could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Spoon looks winded!
Young in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Young is landing with some decent strikes but Spoon is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

Young looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Spoon is trying to stand up.
Spoon is trying to escape the mount.
Young controlling from the full mount.
BOOM! Young connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Spoon is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Spoon is desperately trying to improve his position but Young has a good base and remains in mount.
Spoon is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Spoon is in a horrible position here. Young smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Young scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Spoon?
Young landing punches.
Young lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Young lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.

Spoon is rocked!
Spoon really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Young takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Young is in the full mount, landing strikes.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Chadwick Young 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.

Spoon stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Spoon wants it to stay on the feet.

Spoon shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Young's guard.
Young controlling Spoon's posture.
Spoon wants to stand but Young is controlling his posture from full guard.
Spoon postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Young is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Spoon has hold of Young's hands but Young slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Spoon is looking to improve his position.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Spoon can do anything to dispel that myth.
Young stalling.
Young has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Young landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Spoon is trying to get back to full guard.
Spoon is breathing heavily.
Young takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Young working Spoon over with strikes.
Young lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Spoon trying to get back to full guard but Young takes advantage of the position and moves to full mount!
Young lands a nice shot to the head.
Chadwick Young overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Young controlling the pace for now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Spoon reaches up to try and pull Young in and control his posture, but Young latches on to an arm and pivots quickly for an armbar! Spoon taps out and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:22 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Chadwick Young!