PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dilan Seddigh (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kevin Matthews (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Seddigh might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Tech Nine - Absolute Power. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Seddigh
vs
Matthews

180 cm
22
220 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

185 cm
25
210 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter striker
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Dilan Seddigh!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Kevin Matthews!
The judges for this bout are John Kavanagh, Jorge Garcia and Chad Campbell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A looping hook to the body misses from Seddigh. Matthews does a little dance to reset his feet.
Matthews throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Matthews will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Matthews swinging wildly here.
Matthews misses with a two punch combination.
Seddigh on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Matthews moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Seddigh throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Seddigh shoots in for a takedown but Matthews shows good takedown defense.
Seddigh shoots for a takedown but Matthews saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Matthews misses with a wild combination.

Seddigh closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Matthews to the mat! Matthews manages to get full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Seddigh accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Seddigh wants to control from the top but Matthews keeps moving.
Seddigh's corner is telling him to maintain position.
Seddigh trying to control the position from guard on top but Matthews is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Seddigh postures up in Matthews's guard and throws a big left but Matthews blocks it.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Matthews can do anything to dispel that myth.
Seddigh throws a big right hand that misses.
Seddigh pushes down on Matthews's leg and manages to get into half guard.

That's two 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.
Seddigh trying to control from Matthews's half guard. Matthews has other ideas though and has regained full guard.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Seddigh loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Seddigh throws and elbow that misses. Matthews uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Seddigh's guard. Nice move by Matthews!
Seddigh trying to control the position.

Matthews stands over his opponent and dives in with a flying punch! Seddigh throws up his legs and catches Matthews in a triangle! Oh this looks tight! Matthews tries to escape but he's forced to tap! Wow, fantastic work there by Seddigh! That came out of nowhere!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Dilan Seddigh!
Dilan Seddigh retains his light heavyweight title!