PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thiago Infamous (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kallen Laupati (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Infamous's entrance music is Jadakiss - Pain And Torture. A fine choice. Laupati has chosen im fat as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Infamous
vs
Laupati

175 cm
24
180 lbs
7 - 6 - 0

157 cm
19
180 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin

EFC Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Thiago Infamous!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Kallen Laupati!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Infamous lands an overhand right.

Laupati scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Infamous on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Laupati not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
The fighters are battling for position here. Infamous manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
Infamous manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Infamous sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Laupati keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Laupati throwing hammer fists to the chest of Infamous. What's that going to do exactly?
Infamous looking to control and managing it successfully.
Laupati in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Infamous will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Laupati is trying to escape the mount.
Laupati throwing hammer fists to the chest of Infamous. What's that going to do exactly?
Laupati throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Laupati swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Infamous controlling his opponent.
Laupati is desperately trying to improve his position but Infamous has a good base and remains in mount.
Laupati really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Infamous. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Infamous postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Laupati looks a forlorn figure.
Infamous controlling the pace for now.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Infamous trying to control but he's not successful this time.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Infamous controlling the position easily from mount.
Laupati really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Laupati slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.
Laupati looks gassed!
Laupati flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Infamous keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
Infamous passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Laupati!
Laupati is looking to get to half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Infamous working for a submission but Laupati is keeping him at bay.
Laupati is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Infamous controlling his opponent.
Infamous punishing his opponent with strikes.
Laupati is trying desperately to improve position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Infamous controlling the pace for now.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Laupati can do anything to dispel that myth.
Infamous raining down shots from the mount!
Laupati is wriggling around trying to escape.
Laupati throwing hammer fists to the chest of Infamous. What's that going to do exactly?
Infamous working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Infamous takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

The referee stands the fighters back up. Thiago Infamous just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.
Laupati is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thiago Infamous dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Infamous lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Infamous scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Infamous connects with a good right hand that stumbles Laupati. Laupati circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
Infamous catches Laupati with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Infamous tries to score with a low kick but Laupati moves his leg out of the way.
Infamous misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Laupati takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
A left and a right from Infamous both land. Nice combination.
Infamous scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Laupati closes the distance and clinches up with Infamous, looking for a takedown. Laupati pushes Infamous against the cage but Infamous circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Laupati is breathing heavily.
Infamous is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Laupati takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Infamous cracks Laupati with an open hand slap.

Infamous shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Infamous winds up and cracks Laupati with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Infamous content to control rather than advance.
Infamous blocks the strikes from Laupati.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Infamous is controlling the pace.
Infamous's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Laupati punching from the bottom.
Laupati missing with punches from the bottom.
Laupati is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Laupati wants to get back to full guard but Infamous has passed into side control.
Infamous sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Infamous is working close to his opponent, looking to work a submission by the looks of things. Oh, he's managed to get a guillotine from mount as his opponent reached up! That looks tiiiiight! Will he tap? YES, he's tapped! Impressive submission by Infamous!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:37 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Thiago Infamous!