PBP Commentary

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

Lawrence
vs
Castro

159 cm
18
278 lbs
1 - 4 - 0

200 cm
18
240 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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 1 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Barry Lawrence!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Alexander Castro!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Winston Howard and Steve Erwin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Castro moves in looking to clinch but Lawrence pushes him off.
Castro wants to clinch up but Lawrence keeps it at a distance.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Lawrence.
Castro wants to get back to his feet but Lawrence is dominant here and he's now got Castro's back!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Castro is trying to break free.
Castro wants to get back to his feet.
Castro is being controlled on the ground here - he must escape this position otherwise surely the end is near.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Castro tries to escape the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lawrence has the hooks sunk in and you can see the will to fight slowly draining out of Castro's body.
Lawrence avoiding Castro 's attempts to control his hands.
Castro wants to escape the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Castro keeps trying to improve his position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Lawrence gets his hooks in and is throwing strikes.

Castro is displaying good submission defense - not really looking in danger of submitting to the rear naked choke at the moment. That could change in an instant of course if Lawrence gets his way!
Lawrence not allowing Castro to control his hands.
Castro tries to roll but Lawrence sticks to his back.
Lawrence scores with strikes from the back.
Lawrence controls the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Lawrence is working hard for the rear naked choke here.
Castro trying to control but not successfully.
Lawrence lands strikes to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence controlling the position well here. Castro rolled but Lawrence kept the hooks locked in and stayed in the dominant position.

Castro is displaying good submission defense - not really looking in danger of submitting to the rear naked choke at the moment. That could change in an instant of course if Lawrence gets his way!
Castro is really stuck here.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Lawrence is controlling his opponent, waiting for an opportunity to finish.
Lawrence seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Castro for as long as he can get away with.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Barry Lawrence dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Castro misses with a head kick.
Alexander Castro seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Castro tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Lawrence manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

Castro decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.

Lawrence has one foot on Castro's thigh - he pushes off and manages to get back to his feet.

Castro scores with a takedown into Lawrence's guard.

Lawrence wriggles free and stands up.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Castro closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Lawrence gets back to half guard.
Lawrence manages to get to full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Lawrence has his foot on Castro's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Castro works his way back into a safe position though.

Lawrence throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Castro wants to stand and escape but instead Lawrence has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.

Castro is striking off his back. Lawrence thinks nothing of it though and passes easily into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lawrence keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.

Castro looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Castro tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Lawrence has advanced to mount. Uh oh.

Lawrence working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Castro looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Lawrence! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Barry Lawrence!