PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Swe Dish (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hettie Kate (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kate is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Peanuts Theme. Hettie Kate has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Dish
vs
Kate

175 cm
19
163 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

172 cm
25
160 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Swe Dish!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Hettie Kate!
The judges for this bout are Damien Edna, John Mangel and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kate leaves Dish with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Kate tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Dish paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Dish is trying hard to land a takedown here. Kate sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Dish ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Kate moves away.
Kate is looking to clinch.
Kate is looking to clinch but Dish is avoiding it.
Kate tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Dish manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Dish tries a head kick but it misses.
Dish fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Swe Dish. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Kate looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Dish avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Dish gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Dish breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Kate turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.

Kate forces Dish back against the cage and clinches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kate putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Dish in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Kate throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dish blocks it with crossed arms.
Kate throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dish blocks it with crossed arms.
Kate gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Kate is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Kate comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Kate with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kate looking to throw knees to the head but Dish is blocking nicely.
Kate misses with a knee to the head.
Dish takes an elbow to the forehead.
Kate tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Dish avoids it.
Kate creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Kate stalls.
Dish creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Kate's defenses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kate tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kate lands a nice elbow.
Kate misses with a knee strike.
Kate looks gassed!
Dish wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Dish tries to pull guard but Kate won't allow it.

Dish works for the underhooks and manages to get a trip takedown into guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Dish slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.

Dish stands up and we're back to a striking position.
The fight stays on the outside here - Kate looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
A head kick misses from Dish.
Kate fails in his attempt to clinch.

The fight moves into the clinch position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kate gets underhooks to prevent Dish's takedown attempt.
With the fighters up against the cage, Kate throws an elbow but misses.
Nice body punch from Dish.
Kate missing with knees to the body.
Kate tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kate trying to land knees to the body.
Kate tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Dish avoids it.
Dish has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Kate tries to land a knee to the head but Dish blocks with his arms.
Kate tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
With the fighters up against the cage, Kate throws an elbow but misses.
Kate throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dish blocks it with crossed arms.
Dish takes an elbow to the temple.
Dish has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Kate is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Kate tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Dish is looking to break free of the clinch but Kate has double underhooks.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kate throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Dish tries for a takedown but Kate manages to get underhooks.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Kate just misses with a elbow thrown towards Dish's brow.
Dish looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Nice elbow from Kate.
Kate misses with a knee to the head.
Kate misses with a punch on the inside.
Dish lands a body punch in the clinch.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Knees to the body from Dish.

Dish drags the fight down to the ground.
Dish is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Still in half guard, Dish seems content to control.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.

Dish has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Kate defend it? Dish steps over the head and cranks it - Kate is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Dish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Swe Dish!