PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between William Joseph (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Melvin Guillard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Joseph's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Bloodsport - Fight to Survive . We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Joseph
vs
Guillard

175 cm
19
167 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
20
170 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

HGH Nutrients

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, William Joseph!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Melvin Guillard!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, William Peck and Elvis Blanc.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Joseph tries to clinch up but Guillard circles away and keeps his distance.
Guillard's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Guillard duly obliges.
Joseph delivers a nice body kick.
Guillard fails to land with a series of punches.
Guillard keeps the fight on the outside.
Joseph dodges the punch combination from Guillard.

Joseph moves into the clinch.
Joseph manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Joseph tries to land a knee to the head but Guillard blocks with his arms.
Joseph comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Guillard wants to get back to striking at distance but Joseph won't allow it.
Guillard avoiding damage as Joseph throws knees to the body.
Joseph is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Guillard is defending well for now.
Joseph with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Joseph tries to land a knee to the head but Guillard blocks with his arms.
Guillard takes an elbow to the forehead.
Guillard tries to break free but Joseph pushes him back against the cage.
Joseph gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Joseph stalls.
Joseph working Guillard over with knees to the body.
Joseph dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Joseph scores a nice knee to the body.
Guillard can't break the clinch.
Guillard on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Joseph misses with a knee to the head.
Joseph is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Guillard looks gassed!
Joseph stalling the fight.
Joseph with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Joseph missing with knees to the body.
Guillard wants to get back to striking at distance but Joseph won't allow it.

Joseph gets control of Guillard's arms and successfully pulls guard. Joseph will no doubt be looking for submissions off his back.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Joseph has a closed guard, preventing Guillard from standing up.
Joseph has his hands on Guillard's head, controlling the position.

Joseph is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Guillard is aware though and is defending well.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Guillard stopping the sweep attempt from Joseph.
Joseph bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Guillard's guard.
Joseph passes Guillard's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Joseph with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
Joseph wants to pass the guard but Guillard is defending well.
Guillard pushes Joseph off but Joseph dives into side control.
Guillard pushes Joseph away and creates a bit of space to escape. He's almost out here... but no, Joseph gets a good hold of his legs and remains firmly in side control.
Guillard really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Joseph. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Joseph controls the position.

Joseph thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
You can see the frustration on Guillard's face as Joseph controls the position.
Joseph advances to full mount.
Joseph looking to control and managing it successfully.
Joseph is looking to work his way around to Guillard's back. He needs to be careful though, as he's in danger of losing this dominant position.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Guillard has given up his back, trying to stand up. Not clever.
Joseph controls the action.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

William Joseph 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.

Joseph tries to bum rush Guillard with a series of wild strikes but Guillard uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Guillard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Joseph tries to clinch but Guillard is having none of it.
Joseph tries to clinch up but Guillard circles away and keeps his distance.
Guillard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Guillard looks to land a combination but Joseph avoids it well.
Guillard looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Joseph misses with a head kick.
A combination from Guillard does no damage.
Guillard misses with a straight left.
Joseph throws a series of punches but Guillard moves out of range.
Joseph throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Joseph keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Joseph tries to close the distance and clinch up but Guillard swats him away and circles back towards the center.

Joseph scores a takedown into full mount!
Guillard is breathing heavily.
Joseph controlling the pace for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Guillard is not a happy chappy… he wants out of there.
Joseph controlling from mount.
Joseph seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Guillard for as long as he can get away with.
Guillard takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Guillard wants to try and get back to his feet.

Joseph looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Guillard taking shots to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Joseph controlling from the full mount.
Joseph wants to control the pace but Guillard is squirming around nicely.
Joseph looking to control and managing it successfully.
You get the feeling that Guillard really doesn't like being in this position too much.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Joseph with the ground and pound from mount.
Joseph looking to control and managing it successfully.
Joseph trying to control but he's not successful this time.

The referee stands the fighters back up. William Joseph just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.
Joseph misses with the combination.
Guillard cracks Joseph with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
William Joseph seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Joseph throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.

Joseph gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Joseph missing with knees to the body.
Joseph leaning against his opponent.
Joseph landing knees to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Guillard looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Joseph lands a shot to the body.
Joseph lands a body punch in the clinch.
Joseph tries to land a knee to the head but Guillard blocks with his arms.
Joseph crunches a lovely knee into Guillard's ribcage.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Knees to the body from Joseph.
Joseph stalls.
Joseph crunches a lovely knee into Guillard's ribcage.
Joseph dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Joseph gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Joseph throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Guillard blocks it with crossed arms.
Guillard is trying to break the clinch but Joseph is controlling him.
Joseph misses with an elbow strike.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

William Joseph dominated that second round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. This is the final round!

Guillard throws a combination that misses
and Joseph counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Guillard throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Joseph counters by moving into the clinch.
Joseph tries to land knees in the clinch but Guillard avoids the damage to the body.
Joseph leaning against his opponent.
Joseph digs a right hand underneath Guillard's ribcage. Guillard let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Joseph lands a damaging elbow.
Guillard avoids a wild elbow strike from Joseph.
Joseph is pushing Guillard up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Joseph throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Guillards head.
Guillard takes an elbow to the forehead.
Joseph taking a breather.
Guillard takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by William Joseph.
Guillard throws the left hand but Joseph avoids the punch easily.
Joseph keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Guillard.
Guillard tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Joseph was well out of range. Poor timing from Guillard.
Joseph is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Guillard can do to turn this around?

Joseph shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Joseph thows a huge punch but Guillard dodges it nicely.
Guillard pushes Joseph off looking to stand but Joseph dives back in and keeps control.
Joseph slows the pace down in half guard.
Joseph tries to pass to full mount but Guillard defends it.
Joseph controlling the action here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Joseph seems to be looking for submissions.
Joseph controlling the action here.
Guillard is trying to stand.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Guillard won't allow Joseph to pass to mount.
Joseph is trying to control the action in half guard but Guillard is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

Guillard is defending against the submission attempts here by Joseph.
Joseph controlling the action here.

Joseph seems to be working for a kimura but Guillard defends the submission attempt.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Guillard wants to get back to his feet.
Joseph stalling.
Melvin Guillard has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

Joseph decides he's had enough of the ground and stands up.
Joseph tries to clinch but Guillard moves out of range.
Joseph tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Guillard paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Joseph has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Joseph there as he acknowledges the shot.

Joseph moves into the clinch successfully.

And that's the end of the fight!
William Joseph showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Joseph has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Dillan Fox scores the fight 30:26
Judge William Peck scores the fight 30:27
Judge Elvis Blanc scores the fight 30:26

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... William Joseph!