PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bagel Iel (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Franky Page (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Franky Page is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Iel
vs
Page

198 cm
25
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

192 cm
19
210 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big heart

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Bagel Iel!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Franky Page!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, William Gold and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Iel misses with a straight right.
Iel throws a right hand that Page ducks under and follows up with a left that Page also avoids with ease.

Page shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Iel napping and manages to drive through into side control!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Page in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Iel tries to improve position but can't.
Page working the head and body with strikes.
Iel takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Page scoring with punches and elbows.
Page controlling the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Iel wants to get back to his feet but Page drags him back down.
Page in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Iel is putting a lot of effort into getting back to his feet here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Page is putting a hurting on Iel here, landing some big shots from side control.
Page happy to just control the position for now.
Iel tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Iel takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Page is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
Page in side control lands a decent elbow.
Page landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Iel taking a bit of punishment here - Page scoring with strikes.
Page is putting a hurting on Iel here, landing some big shots from side control.
Iel tries to wriggle free to get back to his feet but he's given up his back! Oops.
Page lands with a nice looking elbow that stuns Iel.
Page is controlling his opponent, waiting for an opportunity to finish.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Page is punishing Iel with some ground and pound.
Page throwing damaging strikes from the back! Iel could be in trouble here!
I would not like to be Iel right now.
Page scores with punches from the back.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Page scores with punches from the back.
Iel is taking damage to the body and head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Franky Page dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Iel swings away with a body shot that misses

and Page counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Page lands strikes from half guard.
Page has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Page working the head and body with strikes.
Page scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Iel on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Iel tries to get out of the position.
Nice strikes from Page there.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Iel is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Page scores with a couple of nice shots.
Page content to control rather than advance.
Page working over Iel with some ground and pound. Iel looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Page working the head and body with strikes.
Page looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Iel with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Ground and pound from Page.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Page perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Iel tries to push off, looking to stand up, but Page manages to move to mount!

Page with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Iel is trying to stand.

Iel defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Page.
Page controlling his opponent.
Page landing shots from mount.
Page looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Page is working to isolate an arm here. It's a telegraphed submission attempt but he's gone for it anyway - and he's got it! Page extends the arm and Iel is forced to tap!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Franky Page!