PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Up Yours (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Harold Benedez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yours has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Harold Benedez has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Up Yours's chin.

Yours
vs
Benedez

170 cm
33
180 lbs
7 - 10 - 0

179 cm
32
180 lbs
7 - 5 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Very strong

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 10 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Up Yours!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 5 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Harold Benedez!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Viktor Lagutenko and Vladimir Khabensky.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yours misses the body punch

and Benedez counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Benedez trying to control the position from guard on top but Yours is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Benedez tries to free his leg and advance position but Yours is retaining full guard.
Benedez prevents Yours from getting back to his feet.
Yours is breathing heavily.
Benedez missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

Benedez thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Yours is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Benedez is controlling him.
Benedez landing with the ground and pound.
Benedez postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Yours keeping moving, preventing Benedez from controlling successfully.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Benedez scoring with punches to the head and body.
Benedez postures up.
Benedez is working Yours over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yours keeping moving, preventing Benedez from controlling successfully.

Benedez decides to stand up and beckons his opponent to follow.

Benedez shoots in and bounces Yours off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Benedez is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Benedez lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Benedez in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Benedez slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Benedez works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Benedez really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Yours. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Benedez has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Benedez moves into the clinch successfully.
Benedez goes for a takedown attempt but Yours pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
Yours rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Benedez moves out of range and avoids them all easily.

Benedez forces Yours back against the cage and clinches.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Yours is fighting off a takedown attempt but Benedez is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Yours to the mat. Yours regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
Benedez lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Benedez trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Benedez cracks Yours with a solid left hand.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Benedez's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Benedez must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Yours controls Benedez momentarily but Benedez frees himself.
Benedez throwing strikes but missing.
Benedez postures up in Yours's guard and throws a big left but Yours blocks it.
Yours wants to get back to his feet but Benedez is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Benedez forces his way into half guard.

Yours is defending against the submission attempts here by Benedez.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Ground and pound from Benedez.
Benedez working Yours over with strikes.

Yours is defending against the submission attempts here by Benedez.
Benedez is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Benedez landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Benedez working over Yours with some ground and pound. Yours looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.

Benedez is working for a kimura but Yours is defending it quite comfortably.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Yours looks like he's trying to stand up.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Harold Benedez dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Benedez has a takedown stuffed.
Benedez shoots in for a takedown but Yours shows good takedown defense.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Yours tries to clinch but fails miserably

and Benedez counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for Yours!
Benedez is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Benedez working Yours over with strikes here.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Benedez cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!

Yours is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yours takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Oh Yours is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Benedez putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!

Benedez looking for a guillotine from mount but Yours is having none of it.
Benedez postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Yours in real trouble here! The ref calls for Yours to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Harold Benedez!