PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ralfus Presting (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brodie Sinclair (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sinclair has chosen as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Presting
vs
Sinclair

182 cm
27
180 lbs
10 - 5 - 1

180 cm
32
187 lbs
20 - 14 - 1

Abu Dhabi Champ
Dangerous knees
KO power

Olympic wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Fury Nutrition Inc.
LOD: Affordable Quality

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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 10 - 5 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Ralfus Presting!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 14 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Brodie Sinclair!
The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Presting manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Sinclair on his heels. He'll look to pass Sinclair's guard now, I'm sure.
Presting wants to control from the top but Sinclair keeps moving.

Sinclair working for a triangle but Presting defends it easily.

Presting drops back looking for a leg! Sinclair is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Sinclair manages to kick Presting off! Presting jumps back into Sinclair's guard.

Sinclair looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Presting looking to sit in guard and control but Sinclair gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Sinclair chips away with some ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sinclair landing with the ground and pound.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Presting is on top in guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Presting wants to control from the top but Sinclair keeps moving.

Sinclair is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Presting trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Sinclair preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

Sinclair is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Presting defends well.
Presting won't allow Sinclair to sweep him here.

Presting drops back for a leg but he's not going to get it - he lets go and Sinclair dives on top into guard.
Sinclair scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Sinclair missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sinclair passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Sinclair is chipping away with strikes.
Presting is trying to improve his position.
Sinclair scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Presting to see if he's OK.
Sinclair lands a few punches from side control.
My spies in NEXUS GYM inform me that Sinclair has been getting involved in the gym's BJJ sparring sessions. Let's see whether that pays dividends!
Presting is not content to let Sinclair control the position.
Sinclair scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Presting to see if he's OK.
Sinclair lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Presting down.
Presting is trying to improve his position.
Presting takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Sinclair in side control lands a decent elbow.
Sinclair trying to control the action but Presting is working from the bottom.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Presting is looking for a sweep.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Presting takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Presting is trying to control Sinclair's posture but Sinclair avoids it.
Sinclair wants to control for a moment but Presting uses the opportunity to move back to half guard.
Sinclair lands with a punch from half guard.
Sinclair is trying to control the action in half guard but Presting is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.

Presting looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Sinclair is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sinclair working over Presting with some ground and pound. Presting looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Presting is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Presting is trying to maintain the position but Sinclair is very close to passing his half guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sinclair looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Presting with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Sinclair lands strikes from half guard.
Sinclair lands with a punch from half guard.
Sinclair looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Presting with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Sinclair is nestled in close to Presting, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Presting is looking for a sweep. Sinclair is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Sinclair has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Nice strikes from Sinclair there.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sinclair seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Presting does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Nice strikes from Sinclair there.
Presting gets full guard.
Sinclair lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brodie Sinclair dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Presting fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.

Presting shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Sinclair is trying to stand up here but Presting is controlling him well.
Sinclair is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.

Presting wants to work for an arm triangle but Sinclair is really keeping half guard well and defending the submission attempt.

Sinclair looking for submissions from an awkward position here.

Presting is trying to work for a kimura but Sinclair is defending well.
Sinclair is looking to improve his position.

Presting has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Sinclair defend it? Presting steps over the head and cranks it - Sinclair is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Presting!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Ralfus Presting!
A relieved looking Ralfus Presting thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.