PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Pepper James (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chris Honeycutt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Honeycutt has chosen Riot- 2 Chainz as his entrance music. Chris Honeycutt struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.6lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Chris Honeycutt looks lathargic as he enters the arena. Wake up son, you're about to have a fight!

James
vs
Honeycutt

185 cm
25
200 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

180 cm
23
195 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Pepper James!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Chris Honeycutt!
The judges for this bout are Stewart Dunkirk, Frank Dennis and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Honeycutt scores with a jab to the body.
Honeycutt misses with a low kick.
James lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
James darts in trying to clinch

and Honeycutt counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Honeycutt looks gassed!
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!
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
James trying to control but Honeycutt postures up.
Honeycutt not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Honeycutt throwing shots but James is blocking nicely.
James wants to control but Honeycutt is keeping busy.
Honeycutt not landing any meaningful shots this time.
James is doing well to control the position and prevent Honeycutt from advancing to side control.
Honeycutt lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Honeycutt has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's one minute gone in the round.
James is looking to control Honeycutt's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can James avoid being mounted?
James is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Honeycutt scores with a couple of nice shots.
James is trying to maintain the position but Honeycutt is very close to passing his half guard.

Honeycutt is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
James keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

Honeycutt is looking for a kimura but James is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Honeycutt to get the leverage.
James misses with some strikes from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Honeycutt keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.

James makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!
James is looking to clinch.
Honeycutt keeps the fight on the outside.

Honeycutt gets a takedown 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!
James is looking to escape.
Honeycutt blocks the strikes from James.
Honeycutt throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Honeycutt not doing much here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
James is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Honeycutt stops James from getting back to his feet.
It looks like Honeycutt is going to stand back up.
Honeycutt is thwarting James's attempts to control the position.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
A jab from Honeycutt finds it's way through James's defenses.
Honeycutt thows a body shot but no joy.
James lands with a nice body punch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

James shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Honeycutt is looking to get to half guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
James trying to control but he's not successful this time.
James lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Honeycutt hang on?
James working away from the top, dropping strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

James looking for an armbar but decides to keep the dominant position instead.

Honeycutt is flailing around, obviously not happy about being mounted. James locks hold of one of his arms and spins for an armbar. He's got it! Honeycutt is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Pepper James!
Pepper James retains his middleweight title!
Our winner, Pepper James, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.