PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Josh St Claire (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Meinstopf (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Josh St Claire could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to James Meinstopf's chin.

St Claire
vs
Meinstopf

188 cm
20
195 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

186 cm
22
190 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Tends to cut

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 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Josh St Claire!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, James Meinstopf!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Paul Aken and Patrick Alders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Meinstopf showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from St Claire.
St Claire throws a series of punches but Meinstopf avoids them all with ease.

Meinstopf closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
St Claire is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

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

Meinstopf isolates an arm and boxes in a triangle. St Claire stacks Meinstopf on his neck as he steps over and passes to the side. He's now in a much more dominant position where he can look to do some serious damage. Nice move by St Claire!

St Claire decides to stand up, so the ref orders Meinstopf to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
St Claire scores with a hook.
St Claire throws a right and a left that both miss.
Meinstopf blocks a head kick by St Claire.
St Claire lands a jab-cross combination.
Meinstopf throws a combination that misses
and St Claire counters with a nice uppercut.
Josh St Claire is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Meinstopf lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Meinstopf shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts St Claire as he jumps to the side.
St Claire misses with a double jab

so Meinstopf counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
St Claire keeping moving, preventing Meinstopf from controlling successfully.
St Claire utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
St Claire keeping moving, preventing Meinstopf from controlling successfully.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Meinstopf forces his way into half guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Meinstopf missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

Meinstopf is looking for a kimura. It's pretty deep but St Claire still has the half guard so he's probably OK. Oh, St Claire has exploded into a beautiful escape there and after a quick scramble, he's ended up in side control on top! Nice work!
Meinstopf is looking to slip a leg under and get half guard but St Claire is one step ahead and moves to full mount!

That's three minutes gone in the round.

St Claire stands up from the dominant position, so we're back on the feet.
Meinstopf shoots in but St Claire avoids the takedown attempt easily.
A right-left combo lands from St Claire.

It looks like James Meinstopf has been cut.
Meinstopf looks gassed!
St Claire drops Meinstopf with a big left hand! Meinstopf is injured, injured bad! St Claire jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Josh St Claire!