PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Neil Rollins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kama Mustafa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rollins kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Everyday Normal Guy. Mustafa comes into a darkened arena with his song building. MaMa Africa kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Rollins
vs
Mustafa

178 cm
26
170 lbs
10 - 3 - 0

185 cm
24
180 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent elbows
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Brawler
Solid chin

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 10 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Neil Rollins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kama Mustafa!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Cecil Peabody and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Rollins gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Rollins lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Kama Mustafa has been cut.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins won't allow it.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Rollins connects with a knee to the head.
Rollins scores with a knee to the head.
Mustafa is looking to break free of the clinch but Rollins has double underhooks.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Mustafa tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins lands a knee to the body.
Mustafa looks gassed!
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Mustafa takes a knee to the side of the body.
Rollins slowing the pace effectively.
Rollins keeps control of Mustafa as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Rollins landing knees to the head.
Knees in the clinch landing for Rollins.
Rollins lands a knee to the body.
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Mustafa in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Rollins lands a nice knee to the body.
Rollins scores a nice knee to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Rollins obliges.
Rollins lands a good knee to the midsection. Mustafa won't want to take too many of those.
Rollins landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Rollins lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins with a knee to the head.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Rollins slows down the pace here.
Knees in the clinch landing for Rollins.
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Mustafa takes a knee right on the jaw!
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Rollins obliges.
Rollins connects with a knee to the head.
Rollins comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Rollins crunches a lovely knee into Mustafa's ribcage.
Mustafa tries to break the clinch but Rollins is controlling the position.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Mustafa fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Neil Rollins has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Kama Mustafa.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Rollins leaning against his opponent.
Rollins connects with a knee to the head.
Rollins lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Mustafa trying to land knees to the body.
Mustafa tries to break the clinch but Rollins is controlling the position.
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins connects with a nasty looking knee right to Mustafa's face.
Rollins connects with a nasty looking knee right to Mustafa's face.
Rollins connects with a nasty looking knee right to Mustafa's face.
Mustafa is trying to break the clinch but Rollins has him pressed against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rollins landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Rollins obliges.
Mustafa fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Mustafa takes a knee to the side of the body.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Rollins just stands there and leans against the cage.
Rollins putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Mustafa in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Rollins.
Rollins creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Mustafa's defenses.
Rollins putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Mustafa in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Rollins connects with a nasty looking knee right to Mustafa's face.
Rollins blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Rollins crunches a lovely knee into Mustafa's ribcage.
Mustafa pushes off an throws an elbow but Rollins leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Mustafa tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Mustafa trying to control the position but instead, Rollins has worked for underhooks and has pushed Mustafa into the cage.
Rollins with a knee to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Mustafa wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Rollins using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Mustafa tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Rollins smiles and moves away.

Rollins clinches.
Mustafa fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Rollins using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Rollins putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Mustafa in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Mustafa takes a knee right on the jaw!
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Mustafa takes a knee to the side of the body.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Neil Rollins dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kama Mustafa's cut.
That's time! Rollins's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Rollins connects with the punch.
Rollins is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Mustafa can do to turn this around?
Rollins has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Rollins there as he acknowledges the shot.
Mustafa shoots in and drives through. Rollins sprawls well.
Rollins slaps away a takedown attempt from Mustafa, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Mustafa steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Rollins. That one must have hurt.
Rollins feints and then cracks Mustafa's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Mustafa down.

Mustafa tries to keep at a distance but Rollins has taken the fight into the clinch.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Rollins working Mustafa over with knees to the body.
Knees to the body from Rollins.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Rollins lands a nice knee to the body.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Rollins scores with a knee to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Neil Rollins has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Mustafa takes a knee to the side of the body.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Mustafa tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Rollins smiles and moves away.
Neil Rollins has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Kama Mustafa.
Rollins feints and then cracks Mustafa's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Mustafa down.
Mustafa takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Rollins fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Rollins fakes the leg kick and cracks Mustafa in the body.
Rollins is looking to slow Mustafa down with leg kicks.
Rollins turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.

Rollins clinches with his opponent.
Rollins lands a good knee to the midsection. Mustafa won't want to take too many of those.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
A knee to the head by Rollins.
Mustafa tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Mustafa's defenses.
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Rollins lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Rollins lands a nice elbow.
Rollins managing to block the knees to the body from Mustafa.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Mustafa is trying to break the clinch but Rollins has him pressed against the cage.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Rollins gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Mustafa jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Rollins walks away with a smile on his face. Mustafa gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Mustafa shoots in for a takedown but Rollins shows good takedown defense.
Rollins leaves Mustafa with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.

Rollins moves into the clinch successfully.
Rollins comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Rollins unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins won't allow it.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins holds him up against the cage and eventually Mustafa drops back down to his feet.
Rollins with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Rollins lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Rollins working Mustafa over with knees to the body.
Mustafa takes a knee to the side of the body.
A head punch on the inside from Mustafa fails to land.
Rollins lands a knee to the body.
Rollins has Mustafa pressed against the cage, preventing Mustafa from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Knees to the body from Rollins.
Rollins lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Rollins as Mustafa tries to tie him up.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Neil Rollins dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Kama Mustafa's cut.
That's time! Rollins's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight. Let's get this one finished - here comes the final round!

Rollins has closed the distance and engaged Mustafa in a clinch.
Mustafa jumps guard but Rollins stands there with Mustafa around his waist. Mustafa gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Rollins landing knees to the body.
Mustafa wants to stall.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
A knee to the head by Rollins.
Rollins putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Mustafa in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Rollins lands a nice elbow.
Mustafa takes a knee right on the jaw!
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Rollins obliges.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins scores a nice knee to the body.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Rollins stalls.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins won't allow it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Rollins comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Mustafa tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Rollins smiles and moves away.
Neil Rollins has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Kama Mustafa.
Rollins keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Mustafa takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Rollins lands a nice looking body kick.
Rollins connects with a crisp jab.
Mustafa closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Rollins fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.

Rollins moves into the clinch successfully.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Rollins lands a knee to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Rollins lands a damaging elbow.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Rollins lands a nice elbow.
Rollins with a knee to the head.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins won't allow it.
Rollins lands a knee to the body.
Rollins scores a nice knee to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Rollins lands a good knee to the midsection. Mustafa won't want to take too many of those.
Knees in the clinch landing for Rollins.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Rollins utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Rollins lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Mustafa has Rollins pressed up against the cage and is working for takedown. Rollins manages to improve position though and keeps the fight standing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mustafa jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Rollins walks away with a smile on his face. Mustafa gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Rollins throws a quick inside leg kick.

Rollins clinches.
A knee to the head by Rollins.
Mustafa is trying to stall.
Rollins lands an elbow inside.
Knees to the body from Rollins.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins lands an elbow just above Mustafa 's eye.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Rollins lands a nice elbow.
Rollins unloads a knee to the mid-section. Mustafa lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Rollins lands a nice elbow.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Rollins comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Nice elbow from Rollins.
Rollins prevents Mustafa from breaking the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Rollins stalls.
Mustafa tries to pull guard but Rollins holds him up against the cage and eventually Mustafa drops back down to his feet.
Rollins lands an elbow that stopped Mustafa in his tracks for a moment.
Rollins is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Rollins lands a nice knee to the body.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Mustafa takes an elbow to the forehead.
Knees in the clinch landing for Rollins.
Mustafa takes a knee right on the jaw!
Rollins lands a good knee to the midsection. Mustafa won't want to take too many of those.
Rollins landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Mustafa drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Rollins gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Rollins scores a nice knee to the body.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Rollins lands an elbow inside that Mustafa shrugs off.
Kama Mustafa has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Mustafa takes an elbow to the temple.
Mustafa misses with an elbow over the top.

And that's the end of the fight!
Neil Rollins showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Rollins has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... 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 Daniel Franklin scores the fight 30:24
Judge Cecil Peabody scores the fight 30:24
Judge Frank Dennis scores the fight 30:24

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Neil Rollins!