PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Paul Shelter (ranked 1957 p4p, 6729 weight class) and David Jones (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shelter's entrance music is Sword of Destiny. A fine choice. David Jones will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Shelter
vs
Jones

185 cm
25
240
4 - 0 - 0

195 cm
24
267
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Paul Shelter!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, David Jones!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Peter Branson and Michael Johnstone.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Jones drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Shelter is looking for a sweep.
You can see the frustration on Shelter's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
I wouldn't like to be where Shelter is right now.
Shelter manages to work his way to half guard, despite Jones's best efforts.
Jones missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Jones is trying to control the action in half guard but Shelter is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Shelter looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Shelter slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.

Shelter has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Jones doesn't defend quickly enough and Shelter has managed to lock this one up! Can Jones escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Shelter on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Paul Shelter!
Paul Shelter decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.