PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Holden Easterly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ivan Vaghi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Easterly comes to the cage accompanied by Queens of the Stone Age - Burn the Witch. Ivan Vaghi told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

Easterly
vs
Vaghi

185 cm
18
220 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

186 cm
21
205 lbs
3 - 1 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Holden Easterly!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ivan Vaghi!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Seu Braga and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Easterly gets a clinch.
Easterly trying to land knees to the body.
Easterly lands an elbow just above Vaghi 's eye.
Nice elbow from Easterly.
Easterly throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vaghi blocks it with crossed arms.
Easterly landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Vaghi misses with a hook to the ribs.
Easterly landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Easterly crunches a lovely knee into Vaghi's ribcage.
Vaghi looks gassed!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Easterly lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Easterly scores with a knee to the head.
Easterly lands a knee to the body.
Easterly works on Vaghi's body with a couple of short punches.
Easterly throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Easterly throws a knee to the head but misses.
Vaghi stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Easterly looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Easterly looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Easterly trying to land knees to the body.
Easterly throws a knee to the head but misses.
Vaghi trying to stall but Easterly improves his position.
A knee to the head by Easterly.
Vaghi managing to block the knees to the body from Easterly.
Easterly misses with a hook from the clinch.
Vaghi avoiding damage as Easterly throws knees to the body.
Easterly tries to land knees in the clinch but Vaghi avoids the damage to the body.
Easterly throws an elbow but it misses.

Vaghi has double underhooks and is working for a body lock takedown. He's got it. The fighters land in half guard but Easterly regains guard immediately.
Vaghi trying to control but Easterly is working from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Vaghi stands up from guard. Let's bang!
Vaghi closes the distance and clinches up with Easterly, looking for a takedown. Vaghi pushes Easterly against the cage but Easterly circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Vaghi slips under a jab from Easterly.
Easterly misses with a body shot.
Vaghi tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Nice shot by Easterly.
Easterly throws a right and a left that both miss.
Easterly misses with a head kick.

Easterly tries to keep at a distance but Vaghi has taken the fight into the clinch.
Easterly scores a nice knee to the body.
Easterly unloads a knee to the mid-section. Vaghi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Easterly tries a knee to the head but Vaghi blocks it.

Vaghi ties up his opponent against the cage and manages to drag the fight down to the ground. Vaghi no doubt will be looking to work submissions from his guard.
Vaghi pulls Easterly in close to prevent any damage.
Easterly throwing strikes from guard but Vaghi blocks nicely.
Vaghi tries to land a sweep but no joy.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Easterly trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Easterly postures up in Vaghi's guard and throws a big left but Vaghi blocks it.

Vaghi working for submissions but it's allowed Easterly to get to half guard.
Easterly not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Vaghi trying to control from the bottom.
Easterly has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Vaghi wants to get back to his feet.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Easterly scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Easterly throws a head kick that Vaghi semi-blocks.
Vaghi on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.

Vaghi fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Easterly, pushing him back against the cage.
Vaghi doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Vaghi blocks the elbow strike.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Vaghi.
Vaghi has had enough of the clinch but Easterly keeps him there for the moment.
Vaghi tries for a takedown but Easterly manages to get underhooks.
Vaghi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Vaghi looking to stall.
Easterly trying to land knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Easterly swings wildly with an uppercut but Vaghi uses good head movement to avoid it.
Easterly connects with a knee to the head.
Vaghi wants to stall.
Easterly misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Vaghi.
Vaghi is working for takedown but Easterly is calmly controlling the position for now.
Holden Easterly has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ivan Vaghi.
Easterly stops a takedown attempt from Vaghi.
Vaghi tries to pull guard but Easterly won't allow it.
Easterly landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Vaghi drops down looking for an ankle pick but Easterly pulls his leg out and moves away.
Vaghi moves away from the strike by Easterly.
Vaghi shoots in but Easterly avoids the takedown attempt easily.

Easterly forces Vaghi back against the cage and clinches.
Easterly lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Easterly trying to land knees to the body.
Vaghi tries to score a body lock takedown but Easterly shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
Easterly lands an elbow just above Vaghi 's eye.
Easterly unloads a knee to the mid-section. Vaghi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Easterly trying to land knees to the body.
Vaghi can't break the clinch.
Easterly unloads a knee to the mid-section. Vaghi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Easterly unloads a knee to the mid-section. Vaghi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Easterly unloads a knee to the mid-section. Vaghi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Easterly tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Easterly landing knees to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Easterly misses with a knee to the head.
Vaghi tries for a takedown. No joy.
Easterly lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Easterly lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Easterly crunches a lovely knee into Vaghi's ribcage.
Easterly landing knees to the body.
Easterly crunches a lovely knee into Vaghi's ribcage.
Easterly misses with a knee to the head.
Easterly with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Vaghi wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Vaghi manages to pull guard.

Easterly is holding a leg here, probably looking for an ankle lock - he drops back and goes for it! Vaghi is in trouble! Is it all over??? No! Vaghi has escaped and now he's on top!
Easterly keeping moving, preventing Vaghi from controlling successfully.
Easterly tries to land a sweep but no joy.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Easterly keeping moving, preventing Vaghi from controlling successfully.
Easterly looking for a sweep. Not yet Easterly, not yet.
Easterly throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Holden Easterly 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.

A punch combination from Easterly misses.
Vaghi blocks a head kick by Easterly.
Easterly throws a lazy head kick
and Vaghi counters with a low kick, right behind Easterly 's knee.
Easterly looks to land a combination. Vaghi sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
Easterly pulls out of a head kick attempt.
A head kick misses from Easterly.
Vaghi is looking to clinch.
Easterly stuffs the takedown attempt from Vaghi. Vaghi gets slowly back to his feet.
Easterly misses with the combination.
Easterly goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Vaghi fails with a takedown attempt.
Easterly fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Vaghi.
Easterly is looking to clinch but Vaghi is avoiding it.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Easterly checks a leg kick.
Easterly throws a head kick that misses.
No joy there for Easterly, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Vaghi tries a head kick but it misses.
Vaghi avoids the head kick by Easterly.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Easterly throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Easterly fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Vaghi takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Easterly circles to his right before unloading a perfect head kick! Vaghi drops to the canvas, hurt badly! Easterly follows Vaghi to the ground and unloads with a series of strikes that force the referee to step in and end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:13 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Holden Easterly!