PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Leandro Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lamar Washington (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alves comes to the cage accompanied by Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock. Washington has chosen UFC Theme song as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Leandro Alves has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Alves
vs
Washington

195 cm
23
179 lbs
6 - 4 - 0

183 cm
31
182 lbs
15 - 9 - 1

Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Powerful

Zentrope Fighting Universe

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 6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Leandro Alves!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 9 - 1, fighting out of London, Lamar Washington!
The judges for this bout are Paul Tew, William Gold and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alves keeps the fight on the outside.
Alves connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Nice jab there from Alves.
Alves swats away the attempt to clinch by Washington.

Washington moves into the clinch.
Alves has a couple of punches blocked by Washington.
Alves tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Washington avoids it.
Washington dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.

Alves manages to pull guard. Let's see whether he can land a sub off his back.
Alves really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Washington has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Alves is proving hard to escape from.

Alves had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Washington defends it easily.
Washington won't allow Alves to sweep him here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Alves is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Washington defends well.
Washington preventing the sweep.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Washington tries to free his leg and advance position but Alves is retaining full guard.
Washington wants to control from the top but Alves keeps moving.
Washington slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Washington wants to pass the guard but Alves is keeping the position.

The ref stands the fighters back up, due to lack of action by Lamar Washington.
Washington is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Washington tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice shot by Alves.
The fight stays on the outside here - Washington looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Alves avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Washington shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Washington tries to close the distance and clinch but Alves swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Washington tries to clinch up.
Washington tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

Alves closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Washington tries to improve position but can't.
Alves passes to full mount! That's big trouble for Washington!
Washington is desperately trying to improve his position but Alves has a good base and remains in mount.
Alves content just to control the position here.
Washington really trying hard to get back to half guard here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Alves looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Alves controlling from the full mount.
Washington tries to lock up and control but Alves gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Alves blocks Washington's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Alves has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Washington's face.
Washington is looking to get to half guard.
Alves controlling from mount.
Alves will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.

Alves has isolated one of Washington's arms. Washington looking to fight him off but Alves twists into an armbar. It's tight... Will he tap?? YES, he's tapped! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Leandro Alves!
Leandro Alves tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.