PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ahmad Syaiful (ranked 2384 p4p, 1826 weight class) and David Morrell (ranked 284 p4p, 223 weight class). Morrell is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by David Morrell training. Ahmad Syaiful is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Syaiful
vs
Morrell

182 cm
19
175
3 - 1 - 0

180 cm
26
180
7 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ahmad Syaiful!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, David Morrell!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, John Kavanagh and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Syaiful swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Syaiful looks to land a left hand but Morrell moved out of range nicely.
Morrell looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Morrell comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Syaiful misses with a hook. Morrell ducked under it nicely.
Morrell just misses with a punch to the body.
Morrell defending well as Syaiful loads up on a big left hand.
Morrell jabs at Syaiful's body.
Syaiful ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Syaiful misses with a looping left.
Morrell lands a jab to the head.
Syaiful waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Morrell.
Morrell throws out a loose jab but Syaiful uses good head movement to avoid it.
Syaiful bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Morrell's head.
Syaiful lands an overhand right.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Syaiful connects with the punch.
Syaiful throws a hook but Morrell avoids it easily.
Morrell walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Morrell throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Syaiful misses with a looping left.
Syaiful throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Morrell stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Syaiful throws a lazy right hand but Morrell sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Syaiful cracks Morrell with a right hand to the side of the head.
Syaiful is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Syaiful lands a really nice looking cross but Morrell seems unphased.
Morrell misses with an uppercut.
Syaiful seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Morrell lands a jab.
Morrell thuds a left hand into Syaiful's body.
Morrell wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Morrell is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Syaiful.
Syaiful jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Nice defenses there by Syaiful.
Nice uppercut lands for Syaiful. That snapped Morrell's head back.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Syaiful throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Syaiful ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Morrell moves away.
Morrell lands with a nice body punch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Morrell dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Morrell jabs at Syaiful's body.
Syaiful is breathing heavily.
Syaiful misses with a hook. Morrell ducked under it nicely.
Morrell is clearly trying to counter these attacks from Syaiful with a body shot.
Syaiful takes a shot right to the bread basket.
A big left from Morrell misses.
Morrell swings for the body but Syaiful moves out of range.
Ahmad Syaiful seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Syaiful takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Syaiful misses with an uppercut
and Morrell counters with a stiff right hand.
Morrell swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Syaiful misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Morrell.
Syaiful ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Morrell throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Morrell fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Syaiful looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Jab, jab by Morrell - just one landing.
Morrell bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Morrell bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Morrell now looks to counter with a shot at the body.
Morrell scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.

Syaiful is rocked!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Syaiful defending well as Morrell loads up on a big left hand.
Oh Syaiful is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Morrell lands a right hook to the body.
Syaiful seems to have got his legs back now.
Syaiful avoids the body shot from Morrell.
Morrell throws out a loose jab but Syaiful uses good head movement to avoid it.
Syaiful slips a jab from Morrell.
Syaiful throwing a counter right hand but Morrell manages to avoid it.
Morrell displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Syaiful throws out the jab.
Syaiful takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Morrell connects with a single shot there.
Morrell swings widly with a right hand
letting Syaiful counter with a right hand.
Morrell punishes Syaiful's body with a nice straight punch.
Syaiful gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Morrell gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Syaiful is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). David Morrell!
A victorious David Morrell thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.