PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Chad Joyce (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gerardo Pacheco (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gerardo Pacheco is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Joyce
vs
Pacheco

173 cm
24
145 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

174 cm
19
152 lbs
4 - 1 - 1

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Basic striking
Heavy handed

Venom Combat Sports

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Chad Joyce!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Gerardo Pacheco!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pacheco lands a glancing blow to the side of Joyce's head.
Joyce looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Joyce keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Joyce throws an off balance right hand

and Pacheco counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Pacheco lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Joyce is trying to break free.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Pacheco.
Pacheco lands a left hand that snaps the head of Joyce backwards.

Joyce is rocked!
Joyce wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Oh Joyce is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Joyce has clasped his hands together around Pacheco's back... aaand, he's got a takedown into side control. Nicely done.
Joyce seems to have got his legs back now.
Pacheco struggling a bit here.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Pacheco tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Joyce knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Pacheco on the ground.
Pacheco manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Pacheco holds on for dear life, maintaining half guard for now.

Pacheco actively working from the bottom here.

Pacheco looking for submissions off his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Pacheco looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Pacheco manages to get to full guard.
Pacheco manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Joyce manages to get himself to full guard.

Pacheco loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Pacheco is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Pacheco is looking to work some ground and pound but Joyce has wrist control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pacheco controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
Pacheco missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Pacheco sitting in guard, not really doing much.
Pacheco loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Pacheco throwing strikes from guard but Joyce blocks nicely.
Pacheco looking to pass the guard.

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.
Pacheco works over Joyce with some ground and pound from guard.
Pacheco missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Pacheco throws a big elbow that misses.
Pacheco advances position into side control!
Pacheco just content to control the position.
Joyce avoids any damage from the ground and pound of Pacheco.
Pacheco has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Pacheco tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pacheco is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Joyce will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Pacheco scoring with punches from side control.
Pacheco landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
The referee tells the fighters to keep busy.
Joyce on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Joyce tries to get out of the position.
Let's hope that Pacheco has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Joyce dodges the ground and pound from Pacheco.
An elbow from Pacheco crashes against the mat.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Gerardo Pacheco 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.

Pacheco scores with the left hand. Joyce knows he should have avoided that one.
Pacheco scores with a jab to the body.
Pacheco lands a slapping body shot.
Joyce walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
We've been told by Joyce's head coaches at City of Angels Fight Academy that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Chad Joyce is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Pacheco cracks Joyce on the jaw with a powerful right hand and Joyce falls backwards against the cage. Pacheco follows up with more strikes that drop Joyce to his knees. Pacheco keeps the pressure on and the referee jumps in to save Joyce! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:19 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Gerardo Pacheco!
Chad Joyce was interviewed post fight and said 'I will be back better then ever'.