PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Jack Sharp (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pascal Amyotte (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sharp comes to the cage accompanied by Toxic Holocaust - Nuke The Cross. Jack Sharp had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 156.8lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. Pascal Amyotte is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Sharp
vs
Amyotte

174 cm
19
165 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

165 cm
18
165 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Good knees
Good chin

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jack Sharp!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Pascal Amyotte!
The judges for this bout are Ian Loll, Gregory Folan and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sharp wants to clinch up but Amyotte keeps it at a distance.

Sharp takes the fight into the clinch.

Amyotte is trying to trip Sharp. He has hold of a leg but Sharp is hopping around, keeping his balance for the moment. Amyotte persists though and gets the takedown into guard.
Amyotte trying to control but Sharp is working from the bottom.
Amyotte stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Sharp swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Sharp is looking to stand up but Amyotte isn't so interested in that idea.
Amyotte pushes down on Sharp's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Sharp on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Amyotte missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Amyotte should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Amyotte missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sharp wants to get back to his feet.
Sharp keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Amyotte throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Amyotte works his way into side control.
The ground and pound from Amyotte seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Amyotte tries to move to mount but Sharp blocks the move with his legs.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Amyotte stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Amyotte wants it to stay on the feet.
Sharp is breathing heavily.
Sharp swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Amyotte keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Amyotte fails to land the takedown.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Sharp checks a leg kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Amyotte shoots in but Sharp avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Sharp takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Sharp throws a series of punches but Amyotte moves out of range.
Amyotte throws a low kick but Sharp avoids it.
Sharp throws a right hand that Amyotte ducks under and follows up with a left that Amyotte also avoids with ease.

Amyotte drives through with a takedown into guard.
Amyotte throwing strikes but missing.
Amyotte working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Amyotte forces his way into half guard.
Amyotte thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sharp's head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Amyotte thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sharp's head.
Amyotte scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Amyotte slips a nice elbow through Sharp's hands, connecting with Sharp's forehead.
Amyotte lands strikes from half guard.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Amyotte lands a nice short elbow.
Amyotte wants to lay and pray for a moment but Sharp keeps working.
Amyotte passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Sharp!
Amyotte scores with a couple of good head shots there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Amyotte connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Amyotte scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Amyotte working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Amyotte with shots to the head and body - Sharp looks very uncomfortable down there.
Amyotte working Sharp over with strikes here.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Amyotte landing strikes from the mount and Sharp is in trouble!
Amyotte with good strikes from the mount here!
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Amyotte scoring with strikes but Sharp is staying in there.

Sharp is rocked!
Amyotte cracks Sharp with a big head shot that has him covering up instantly! He's rolled onto his side and the referee has seen enough - this one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Pascal Amyotte!