PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Karl Matthews (ranked 5073 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dapeek Gurung (ranked 5213 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Matthews
vs
Gurung

185 cm
18
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

177 cm
24
146 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Big heart

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Karl Matthews!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Dapeek Gurung!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, Donald Grub and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gurung throws a sloppy head kick and Matthews moves out of range easily.

Matthews fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Gurung to the ground. Matthews is now in Gurung's guard.
Matthews trying to control but Gurung is working from the bottom.
Matthews not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.
Gurung will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Matthews with a nice head shot there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Gurung is on top in guard.

Gurung controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Matthews throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Matthews has a closed guard, preventing Gurung from standing up.
Gurung's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Gurung makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Gurung throws a strike but Matthews rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.

Matthews trying to control the position from guard on top but Gurung is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

Matthews is posturing up here but Gurung has hold of an arm and he's gone for an armbar! Matthews tries to roll out but it's too tight and Matthews has to tap! Slick submission there by Gurung!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Dapeek Gurung!