PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Travis Beach (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jon Barr (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Travis Beach has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Beach
vs
Barr

215 cm
21
145 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

225 cm
22
145 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Travis Beach!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jon Barr!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, William Peck and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Beach looks to land a combination but Barr avoids it well.

Barr clinches up with Beach and pushes him back against the cage.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Barr connects with a knee to the head.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Beach looking to throw knees to the head but Barr is blocking nicely.
Beach blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Barr unloads a knee to the mid-section. Beach lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Barr looking to throw knees to the head but Beach is blocking nicely.
Barr on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Knees to the body from Barr.
Beach throws a knee to the head but misses.
Beach wants to break free but Barr has control.
Beach misses with a knee to the head.
Beach is trying to break the clinch but Barr has him pressed against the cage.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach connects with a knee to the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Barr throws an elbow but misses.
Beach just leaning against Barr, taking a breather.
Beach with a knee to the head.
Barr creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Beach's defenses.
Barr lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Beach is breathing heavily.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr unloads a knee to the mid-section. Beach lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Barr creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Beach misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Barr.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr misses with an elbow over the top.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach blocks an elbow strike from Barr.
Barr lands a knee to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Beach lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Beach blocks the elbow strike.
Barr throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach misses with a knee to the head.
Beach lands a nice uppercut.
Beach is looking to break free of the clinch but Barr has double underhooks.
Barr misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Beach.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

Beach escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Barr moves into the clinch successfully.
Beach using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Barr has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Beach really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach looking to slow down the pace here.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Beach blocks the elbow strike.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr scores a nice knee to the body.
Beach on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

Beach escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Barr doesn't manage to clinch there - Beach circles away.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Beach wants to clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Barr looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Barr is looking to clinch.

Barr has managed to clinch.
Barr misses with a knee to the head.

Beach escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Beach doesn't manage to clinch there - Barr circles away.
Beach avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Barr with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Beach has a couple of punches blocked by Barr.
Beach takes an elbow to the forehead.
Beach throws a head punch that misses.
Barr comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Beach takes an elbow to the forehead.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Beach lands a knee to the head.
Barr landing knees to the body.
Beach throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Barr blocks it with crossed arms.
Barr looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Beach lands with a light punch inside.
Beach is trying to break free.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Barr.
Barr blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Barr with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Barr pushes off an throws an elbow but Beach leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Barr tries to land knees in the clinch but Beach avoids the damage to the body.
Beach is pushing Barr up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Barr with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Beach has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Beach trying to land knees to the body.
Barr lands a nice knee to the body.
Beach is looking to break free of the clinch but Barr has double underhooks.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Beach takes an elbow to the forehead.
Beach blocks an elbow strike from Barr.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.
Beach connects with a nasty looking knee right to Barr's face.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Beach takes an elbow to the temple.

Beach manages to break the clinch.
Barr wants to clinch up but Beach keeps it at a distance.

Beach tries to keep at a distance but Barr has taken the fight into the clinch.
Beach is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Barr lands an elbow that stopped Beach in his tracks for a moment.
Barr with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Beach throws a knee to the head but misses.
Beach missing with knees to the body.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but Barr blocks with his arms.
Barr misses with a knee to the head.
Barr avoids the elbow strike from Beach, against the cage.
Barr lands a damaging elbow.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.

Beach pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Barr tries to close the distance and clinch up but Beach swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Barr throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Beach.

Barr closes the distance and clinches.
Beach using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Barr has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.
Beach tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Beach lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Beach looking to throw knees to the head but Barr is blocking nicely.
Barr lands a damaging elbow.
Barr gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Beach using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Barr has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Barr just misses with a elbow thrown towards Beach's brow.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr avoids the elbow strike from Beach, against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jon Barr dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Barr lands a nice looking kick to the body. Beach takes a step back to recover.

Barr forces Beach back against the cage and clinches.

Beach breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Barr checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Barr is looking to clinch.
Barr doesn't manage to clinch there - Beach circles away.
Barr throws a sloppy head kick and Beach moves out of range easily.
Barr swats away the attempt to clinch by Beach.
Barr is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Beach throws a combination. Barr tries to block but a couple of punches get through.

Beach has taken the fight to the clinch.
Barr throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Barr lands a nice elbow.
Beach wants to break free but Barr has control.
Beach wants to break free but Barr has control.
Beach is looking to break free of the clinch but Barr has double underhooks.
Barr landing knees to the body.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but Barr blocks with his arms.
A knee to the head by Barr.
Barr lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Beach blocks an elbow strike from Barr.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Barr landing knees to the head.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr trying to land knees to the body.
Beach avoiding damage as Barr throws knees to the body.
Beach comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Beach looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Beach wants to get back to striking at distance but Barr won't allow it.
Barr lands an elbow inside that Beach shrugs off.
Barr throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Beach blocks it with crossed arms.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Barr.
Barr creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Beach's defenses.
Beach wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Barr using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Beach has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
With the fighters up against the cage, Barr throws an elbow but misses.
Beach misses with a knee strike.
Barr avoiding damage as Beach throws knees to the body.
Barr crunches a lovely knee into Beach's ribcage.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Beach has had enough of the clinch but Barr keeps him there for the moment.
Barr lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Beach misses with a knee to the head.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Barr keeps control of Beach as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Barr lands an elbow inside.
Beach throws a knee to the head but misses.
Beach softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Barr pushes off an throws an elbow but Beach leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Beach is pushing Barr up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Beach throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Barr blocks it with crossed arms.
Barr unloads a knee to the mid-section. Beach lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Barr lands an elbow that stopped Beach in his tracks for a moment.
Barr lands a nice elbow.
Barr looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Barr blocks an elbow strike.
Beach misses with a knee to the head.
Nice elbow from Barr.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr misses with an elbow strike.

Beach manages to break the clinch.
Beach tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Barr paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Barr.
Barr lands a head kick. Beach smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
Beach is looking to clinch.

Beach forces Barr back against the cage and clinches.
Barr tries to land knees in the clinch but Beach avoids the damage to the body.
Beach looks to throw an elbow but misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Barr connects with a nasty looking knee right to Beach's face.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Beach is trying to break free.
Barr throws a knee to the head but misses.
Barr throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Barr misses with a knee to the head.
Beach pressing his opponent against the cage.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Beach is looking to control Barr's arms but Barr gets an underhook and turns him. Now Beach has his back to the cage.
Beach blocks the elbow strike.
Beach tries a knee to the head but Barr blocks it.
Beach wants to break the clinch but can't.
Barr comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Barr prevents Beach from breaking the clinch.
Barr lands a damaging elbow.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr lands an elbow just above Beach 's eye.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Beach wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Barr has him pressed against the cage.
A knee to the head by Beach.
Barr looking to throw knees to the head but Beach is blocking nicely.
Barr takes an elbow to the forehead.
Barr unloads a knee to the mid-section. Beach lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Beach lands a nice uppercut.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but Barr blocks with his arms.
Beach misses with a knee strike.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Barr misses with a knee to the head.
Beach trying to land knees to the body.
Beach lands an elbow inside that Barr shrugs off.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach tries a knee to the head but Barr blocks it.

Beach escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Beach tries a head kick but it misses.
Beach fails with an attempt to clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Barr looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Barr doesn't manage to clinch there - Beach circles away.
Beach misses with the combination.

Barr clinches with his opponent.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Barr lands an elbow inside that Beach shrugs off.
Barr lands a damaging elbow.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr misses with a knee strike.

Beach breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Travis Beach dominated that second round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action. This is the final round!

Beach's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Beach duly obliges.
Barr lands a high kick!

Barr has closed the distance and engaged Beach in a clinch.
Barr lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Beach wants to break the clinch but can't.
Barr lands an elbow just above Beach 's eye.
Beach wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Beach misses with a knee strike.
Beach takes a knee right on the jaw!
Beach tries to land knees in the clinch but Barr avoids the damage to the body.
Beach misses with a knee to the head.
Beach tries to land knees in the clinch but Barr avoids the damage to the body.
Barr creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Beach's defenses.
Beach wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Barr has him pressed against the cage.
Beach is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Barr looking to throw knees to the head but Beach is blocking nicely.
Beach stalling in the clinch but Barr improves position.
Barr with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Beach throws an elbow but it misses.
Beach blocks an elbow strike from Barr.
Beach blocks an elbow strike.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but Barr blocks with his arms.
Beach swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Barr connects with a nasty looking knee right to Beach's face.
Barr lands a knee to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Beach throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr tries a knee to the head but Beach blocks it.
Barr scores with a knee to the head.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr lands a knee to the body.
Barr misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Beach.
Beach tries to land knees in the clinch but Barr avoids the damage to the body.
Beach throws a punch but it's blocked by Barr.
Beach blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Barr keeps control of Beach as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Barr scores with a knee to the head.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but Beach blocks with his arms.
Barr with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Beach misses with a knee strike.
Barr throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Beach blocks it with crossed arms.
Beach connects with a nasty looking knee right to Barr's face.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

Beach breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Barr tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

Barr clinches with his opponent.
Beach using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Barr has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

Beach manages to break the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.

Barr clinches up against the cage.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Barr as Beach tries to tie him up.
Barr using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Beach has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Barr connects with a knee to the head.
Barr throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Beach blocks it with crossed arms.
Barr scores with a knee to the head.
Beach tries a knee to the head but Barr blocks it.
Barr throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Beach blocks it with crossed arms.
Barr throws an elbow that misses.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Beach throws a knee to the head but misses.
Barr lands an elbow that stopped Beach in his tracks for a moment.
Beach looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Beach throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Barr lands a nice elbow.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Beach tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Barr looking to throw knees to the head but Beach is blocking nicely.
Beach avoiding damage as Barr throws knees to the body.
Beach wants to break the clinch but can't.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Barr missing with knees to the body.
Barr using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Beach has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Barr looks to throw an elbow but misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Barr crunches a lovely knee into Beach's ribcage.
Barr prevents Beach from breaking the clinch.
Barr tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Barr looking to throw knees to the head but Beach is blocking nicely.
Beach tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

Beach breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Barr circles away from the clinch attempt.

Barr gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Beach misses with an elbow strike.
Beach blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Barr misses with a knee to the head.
Beach lands an elbow just above Barr 's eye.
Barr lands an elbow inside that Beach shrugs off.
Beach can't break the clinch.
Beach is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Barr blocks the elbow strike.
Barr lands an elbow just above Beach 's eye.
Barr with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Beach looking to throw knees to the head but Barr is blocking nicely.
Beach avoiding damage as Barr throws knees to the body.
Barr lands an elbow that stopped Beach in his tracks for a moment.
Beach wants to break the clinch but can't.
Barr with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Barr misses with a knee strike.
Beach is looking to break free of the clinch but Barr has double underhooks.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Knees in the clinch landing for Barr.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Beach with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Barr throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Beach avoiding damage.
Beach blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

Beach breaks the clinch.
Barr tries to close the distance and clinch but Beach swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Barr throws a sloppy head kick and Beach moves out of range easily.
Barr keeps the fight on the outside.

Barr gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Barr tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Beach throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Barr blocks it with crossed arms.

Beach escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Beach tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Barr paws at him with a jab and circles away.

Barr forces Beach back against the cage and clinches.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Beach looking to throw knees to the head but Barr is blocking nicely.
A knee to the head by Barr.
Barr keeps control of Beach as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Barr creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Beach with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Beach with a knee to the head.
Barr connects with a nasty looking knee right to Beach's face.

And that's the end of the fight!
Jon Barr comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Barr has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Dillan Fox scores the fight 28:29
Judge William Peck scores the fight 28:29
Judge Trevor Gratis scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jon Barr!