PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Tyaf Daeland Puno (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Charlie Lim (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Puno's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, I'm a soldier - Tupac. Lim has chosen Kamelot - Abandoned as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Daeland Puno
vs
Lim

183 cm
26
150 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

168 cm
31
155 lbs
19 - 2 - 1

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

PED Nutrition
Perkele!

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tyaf Daeland Puno!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Charlie Lim!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fotheringham, William Gold and Andrew Berry.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lim misses with a wild body shot.
Lim throws a wild body kick that Puno sees coming a mile off.
Puno feinted with a counter takedown.
Lim misses with a body kick.
Lim lands with a cross.
Lim throws a nice inside leg kick.
Lim swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Puno takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Puno lands a jab to the nose.
Lim has done a lot of speed work in the buildup to this fight.
A big right from Lim misses.
We've been hearing reports that Puno has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Lim lands a nice shot that snaps Puno's head back.
Lim stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Puno on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Puno keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Lim jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Lim bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Lim closes the distance and clinches.
Puno tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Puno misses with some punches.
Puno struggles to land a body shot inside as Lim controls his hands.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Lim.
Puno's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Puno gets through Lim's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
A shot in the inside from Puno.
Lim softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Lim is trying to break the clinch but Puno has him pressed against the cage.
Puno tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Lim misses with the head strike.
Puno tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Puno misses with the head strike.
Puno has a couple of punches blocked by Lim.
Puno fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Lim creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Puno scores with a shot to the side of Lim's head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Lim misses with some punches.
Puno blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Puno tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Puno lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Lim throws a head punch that misses.
Puno misses with a short punch on the inside.
Lim misses with a shot to the kidneys.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Puno.
Puno blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Puno.
Puno tries a body shot but Lim blocks it.
Lim presses Puno against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Puno really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Lim lands with a short shot to the head.

Lim breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Charlie Lim is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Puno moves out of range of the leg kick from Lim.
Lim does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Puno on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Lim closes the distance looking to clinch
and Puno counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
An inside leg kick lands from Lim.
Lim ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.

Puno closes the distance and clinches.
Puno can't find room to land a body shot as Lim controls the action.
Puno struggles to land a body shot inside as Lim controls his hands.
Lim tries a body shot but Puno blocks it.
Lim softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

Lim breaks the clinch.
Puno blocks a low kick nicely.
Lim connects with a leg kick. Puno looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Puno tries to close the distance and clinch but Lim swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Nice defenses there by Puno.
Lim connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Puno closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Lim to the mat! Lim manages to get full guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Puno trying to pass the guard. He's being very persistent here but Lim manages to land a sweep and now he's on top!

Puno keeping moving, preventing Lim from controlling successfully.
Puno looking to hit a scissor sweep but Lim is one step ahead there.

Puno looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Lim passes into side control.
Puno tries to improve position but can't.
Puno is working hard here to advance position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Charlie Lim dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Puno ducks under a wild hook from Lim.
A big left from Lim misses.
Lim is looking to score with low kicks.
Lim lands with a thumping leg kick.
Puno checks a low kick from Lim.
Puno tries to counter with a takedown but Lim is quick to defend against it.
Lim tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Puno is able to avoid easily.
Puno half commits to a counter takedown before pushing away, out of range.
Lim dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Puno. That did some damage!
Puno shoots in looking for a takedown but Lim manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Puno's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.
Lim throws a quick inside leg kick.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Lim.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Lim is looking to slow Puno down with leg kicks.
Lim throws a low kick, looking for Puno's leg but Puno calmly moves out of range.
As Lim tries to get set, Puno tries to push him back and clinch up but Lim manages to avoid the attempt.
Lim misses with an uppercut

and Puno counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Puno.

Lim manages to escape and get back to his feet.
Lim has been the more effective fighter overall so far.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lim lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Lim thows a body kick. Puno tries to catch it but that hurt him.
Lim connects with a looping right hand.
Lim connects with an inside leg kick.
Puno stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Lim feints and then cracks Puno's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Puno down.

Puno clinches up with Lim and pushes him back against the cage.
Lim takes a shot to the head.
Lim blocks a body shot from Puno.
Lim lands a shoulder strike.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Lim lands with a short shot to the head.
Lim blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Lim tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Puno swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Puno cracks Lim with a nice body shot.
Puno stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A short right from Lim on the inside.

Puno drags the fight down to the ground.

Puno working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Lim doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Oh but Puno is tightening it up a little... Lim has to be careful here... He's got his foot tucked under now, this looks tight! Lim reacted too slowly and this one could be over in a matter of seconds! YES! Lim taps out! Nice BJJ there by Puno!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Tyaf Daeland Puno!