PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Floyd Morales (ranked 5917 p4p, 5620 weight class) and Bum Phillips (ranked 606 p4p, 588 weight class). Morales comes to the cage accompanied by Window (Where The Sea Falls Forever) - Jucifer. Floyd Morales could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Bum Phillips's chin.

Morales
vs
Phillips

190 cm
22
203
1 - 0 - 0

176 cm
22
192
2 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Good low kicks
Powerful

Akuma Wear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Floyd Morales!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Bum Phillips!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Percy O'Donnell and Frank Antenori.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Phillips throws a body punch but Morales moves out of range.
Phillips throws a poor cross that misses

and Morales counters with a takedown into side control.
Phillips is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Phillips defending against the ground and pound.
Morales controls the position.
Morales wants to lay and pray for a moment but Phillips keeps working.
Phillips is trying to get back to his feet.
Morales working the strikes but Phillips uses the opportunity to regain half guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Morales seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
Phillips is trying to stand back up but Morales is controlling him

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morales sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Morales looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Phillips is not content to let Morales control the position.
Morales sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Phillips defending well though.
Morales thows a huge punch but Phillips dodges it nicely.
Morales seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Phillips does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.

The referee has motioned to the fighters to stand back up.
Phillips closes the distance and clinches up with Morales, looking for a takedown. Phillips pushes Morales against the cage but Morales circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
It looked like Morales wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Phillips connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Morales's hands.
Morales scores with a body shot.
Sloppy strikes from Phillips. Those never looked like landing.
Phillips looks to clinch
and Morales counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Morales scores with a hook to the body. Phillips takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Morales scores with the left hand. Phillips knows he should have avoided that one.
Phillips closes this distance looking for a takedown but Morales circles away.
Morales circles away from the clinch attempt.
Morales swats away the attempt to clinch by Phillips.

Phillips decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morales is looking to improve his position.
Morales wants to control but Phillips is keeping busy.
We've been informed that Phillips has been working hard on his conditioning in the buildup to the fight.
Morales moves into full guard.
Morales is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Phillips is looking to advance position but Morales has hit a scissor sweep - now he's on top in mount!

Morales with a couple of short strikes.
Morales scoring with strikes but Phillips is staying in there.
Phillips is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Morales will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Morales landing shots from mount.
Morales landing punches.

Phillips is rocked!
Morales wants to control the pace but Phillips is squirming around nicely.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Morales is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Phillips is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Morales scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Phillips?
Morales punishing his opponent with strikes.
Morales breaks from Phillips's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Phillips is still in real trouble! Can Morales finish him?
Morales connects with a bit shot that sees Phillips covering up! More strikes from Morales and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Morales is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Floyd Morales!
A victorious Floyd Morales thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.