PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Peter Bar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and thiago almer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bar comes to the cage accompanied by Rammstein-Asche Zu Asche . almer has a niggling injury. He would have liked to come in 100% fit but that's not always possible. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Bar
vs
almer

178 cm
19
184 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

185 cm
19
175 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Peter Bar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, thiago almer!
The judges for this bout are Frank Dennis, Cecil Peabody and Stewart Dunkirk.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bar fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Peter Bar seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
almer looks gassed!

Bar feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Bar landing some decent shots from guard.
Bar throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
almer preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Bar passes almer's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Bar is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Bar landing strikes, looking to finish!
Bar dominating with strikes here.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
almer takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Bar breaks from almer's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Bar lands a big elbow.

Bar is working for a guillotine from mount but almer frees his head quite easily.
Bar sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
almer takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Bar is landing with some decent strikes but almer is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Bar fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Bar looking to control but almer is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
BOOM! Bar connects with a massive shot to the dome!

almer defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Bar.
almer is bucking up trying to escape but Bar cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
almer takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Bar postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. almer looks a forlorn figure.
Bar trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Bar punishing his opponent with strikes.
Bar lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Bar looking for an armbar but decides to keep the dominant position instead.
Bar punishing his opponent with strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bar looking to control and managing it successfully.
almer is looking to get to half guard.
almer sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
almer blocking the ground and pound attempt from Bar.
almer trying to hold on to Bar's head to control him but Bar postures up.
Bar missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
almer is trying to maintain the position but Bar is very close to passing his half guard.
Bar working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
almer wants to control but Bar is keeping busy and won't allow it.
Bar slips a nice elbow through almer's hands, connecting with almer's forehead.
Bar thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Bar looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Bar throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as almer works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
almer is trying to keep Bar in close.
Bar trying to control the position from guard on top but almer is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Peter Bar dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

almer gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Bar tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but almer paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Bar closes this distance looking for a takedown but almer circles away.
Bar shoots in but almer avoids the takedown attempt easily.
almer feints and then cracks Bar's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Bar down.
almer misses with a jab, cross combination.
No luck for Bar with that takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Peter Bar. That's going to take a lot out of him.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

almer closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.

almer decides to take the fight back to the feet.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

Bar gets a takedown into half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bar is looking to take a break and control but almer is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Bar sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. almer defending well though.
Peter Bar overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Bar thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Bar is trying to control the action in half guard but almer is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Bar perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.

almer kicks Bar off and gets back to his feet.

almer scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bar is trying to improve his position.
Bar is not content to let almer control the position.

almer decides to stand back up. almer steps back and let's Bar get back to his feet.
almer shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Bar as he avoids it easily.
Bar moves in looking to clinch but almer pushes him off.
Bar moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
almer lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Bar backs up against the cage.
Bar catches almer with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Horrible takedown by almer or perhaps it was just good defense by Bar which made him look bad.
almer lands with a nice combination. Bar backs away looking to recover.
Bar is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Bar shoots for a takedown but almer saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
almer will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

almer gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
almer can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Bar controls the pace.
Bar has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bar lands a couple of digs.
almer is pulling down on Bar's head. It's preventing any offense from Bar, at least for the moment.
almer trying to keep a closed guard but Bar is proving a slippery customer.
Bar trying to control but almer is working from the bottom.
Bar is fighting to break almer's control of his arms but almer is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Bar throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as almer works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close second round but thiago almer will probably get the nod - 10:9.
That's time! Back to the action! This is the final round!

almer throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Bar.
Bar lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Bar misses with a head kick.
A punch combination from Bar misses.
Bar shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts almer as he jumps to the side.
Bar fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Bar doesn't succeed with the takedown

and almer counters with a takedown into side control.
almer controls the position from side control.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Bar tries to get back to half guard but can't.

That's one minute gone in the round.
almer throwing strikes but missing, from side control.

almer has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.

almer gets a takedown into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
almer seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Bar does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Bar slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
almer throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Bar works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Bar keeping moving, preventing almer from controlling successfully.
Bar is looking to sweep but instead, almer has passed into half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bar tries to roll over but almer keeps him under control.
almer wants to lay and pray for a moment but Bar keeps working.
almer slows the pace down in half guard.
Bar wants to improve his position but almer is controlling well.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
almer throwing shots but Bar is blocking nicely.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
almer stuffs the takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Peter Bar. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Bar shoots in looking for a single leg takedown. almer is trying to defend but Bar finishes it well and ends up in half guard. Let's see if he can advance position further.
almer blocking the ground and pound attempt from Bar.

almer looking for submissions off his back.

And that's the end of the fight!
thiago almer comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think almer has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. 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 Frank Dennis scores the fight 28:28
Judge Cecil Peabody scores the fight 28:28
Judge Stewart Dunkirk scores the fight 28:28

The fight is ruled a draw!