PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Hazan Ali (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Julio Luis Cesar Moreira Dos Santos De Souza Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ali's entrance music is LL Cool J - Mama' Said Knock You Out. A fine choice. The crowd seem to be enjoying Dos Santos De Souza Silva's choice of entrance music: Darude - Sandstorm. This should be a great matchup!

Ali
vs
Luis Cesar Moreira Dos Santos De Souza Silva

183 cm
24
183 lbs
23 - 5 - 0

179 cm
23
183 lbs
10 - 10 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Very quick

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Fossington & Blythe: Gentlemen's Fight Attire
Bloodsport Nutrition

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 23 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Hazan Ali!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 10 - 1, fighting out of London, Julio Luis Cesar Moreira Dos Santos De Souza Silva!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Richard Clark and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ali avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries for a takedown but Ali sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Ali slaps away a takedown attempt from Dos Santos De Souza Silva, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Ali throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Ali scores with a hook to the body. Dos Santos De Souza Silva takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Ali misses with a kick to the body.
Ali misses with a wild body shot.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva shoots in but no luck this time.
Hazan Ali has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Julio Luis Cesar Moreira Dos Santos De Souza Silva.
Ali tries to land a front kick but Dos Santos De Souza Silva steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva moves out of range as Ali strikes.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva misses with a jab, cross combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A left lands for Ali.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva missing with a left hand there. Ali was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Ali punishes Dos Santos De Souza Silva's body with a nice straight punch.
Ali misses with a body shot.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is trying hard to land a takedown here. Ali sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva looks gassed!
Dos Santos De Souza Silva misses with a shot to the body
and Ali counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Dos Santos De Souza Silva closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ali fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Dos Santos De Souza Silva has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Ali throws a hook but Dos Santos De Souza Silva blocks it.
Ali moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is trying desperately to land a takedown but Ali is having absolutely none of it. This is turning into a bit of a nightmare for Dos Santos De Souza Silva.
Ali dips down and scores with a jab to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ali throws out a powerful jab.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva takes one on the chin but seems OK.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Ali.

Ali moves into the clinch.
Ali stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Ali is working Dos Santos De Souza Silva over against the cage.
Nice body punch from Ali.
Good body shot from Ali.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to pull guard but Ali holds him up against the cage and eventually Dos Santos De Souza Silva drops back down to his feet.
Ali lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Ali stalling against the cage.
Ali scores with a shot to the side of Dos Santos De Souza Silva's head.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries for a takedown but Ali manages to get underhooks.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Ali just stands there and leans against the cage.
Ali works on Dos Santos De Souza Silva's body with a couple of short punches.
Good body shot from Ali.
Ali taking a breather.
Ali lands an uppercut.
A nice left hand lands by Ali.
Ali lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to pull guard but Ali holds him up against the cage and eventually Dos Santos De Souza Silva drops back down to his feet.
Ali scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Ali misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Dos Santos De Souza Silva.
Ali is struggling to control the position.
Ali tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Ali lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Dos Santos De Souza Silva or not.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Ali lands a body shot.
Ali lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Ali cracks Dos Santos De Souza Silva with a nice body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A nice right hand lands inside from Ali.
Ali tries to work over Dos Santos De Souza Silva's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

Ali has Dos Santos De Souza Silva pressed up against the cage. He's trying to work for a single leg takedown. Ali pulls back from the cage and twists to the side, sending Dos Santos De Souza Silva tumbling to the mat - Ali dives into Dos Santos De Souza Silva's guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The referee claps his hands together and tells the fighters to work.
Ali works over Dos Santos De Souza Silva with some ground and pound from guard.
Ali is stalling in the full guard.
Ali working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Ali keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Dos Santos De Souza Silva's head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Ali wants to control from the top but Dos Santos De Souza Silva keeps moving.
Ali working some strikes from top position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hazan Ali dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Ali with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Dos Santos De Souza Silva to score with a decent uppercut.
A head kick misses from Ali.
Ali feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Dos Santos De Souza Silva's calf.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva checks a leg kick nicely.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Ali goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Ali smiles and moves away.
Ali ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Ali throws a head kick that misses.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva avoids the body shot from Ali.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ali shoots in looking for a takedown but Dos Santos De Souza Silva manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Ali's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva throws out a loose jab but Ali uses good head movement to avoid it.

Ali changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Dos Santos De Souza Silva looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Ali has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is trying to get back to his feet.
Ali scoring with punches and elbows.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is breathing heavily.
Ali cracks Dos Santos De Souza Silva with a big right hand but Dos Santos De Souza Silva just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Ali in particular looking to stall.

Ali is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dos Santos De Souza Silva works his way to full guard. Good work.
Ali working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva keeping moving, preventing Ali from controlling successfully.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Ali landing some decent shots from guard.
Ali distracts Dos Santos De Souza Silva with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Ali lands a couple of decent looking shots.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is looking for a triangle here but Ali uses the submission attempt to pass into side control.
Ali is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Dos Santos De Souza Silva can do to turn this around?
Dos Santos De Souza Silva wants to get back to his feet but Ali drags him back down.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ali working away.
Ali lands a nice forearm strike.
Hazan Ali overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is trying to control Ali's posture but Ali avoids it.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to improve position but can't.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Ali lands some shots froms side control.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to buck Ali off but Ali is having none of it.

Ali is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Dos Santos De Souza Silva is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.
Ali scores with punches from side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
The referee asks Ali politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Ali prefers to stall for the moment though.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Ali wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Ali works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Ali lands a few punches from side control.
Ali landing strikes.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva wants to get back to his feet but Ali drags him back down.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Ali working the head and body with strikes.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is rocked!

Ali working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to escape but Ali is in control.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Dos Santos De Souza Silva on the wrong end of some ground and pound.

Ali tries for a kimura but Dos Santos De Souza Silva is defending well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hazan Ali dominated that second round.
That's time! Ali's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight. This is the final round!

Ali goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Ali with a jab.

Ali shoots in and bounces Dos Santos De Souza Silva off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Ali lands a couple of digs.
Ali works over Dos Santos De Souza Silva with some ground and pound from guard.
Ali postures up.
Ali working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Ali throws a big right hand that misses.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ali postures up in Dos Santos De Souza Silva's guard and throws a big left but Dos Santos De Souza Silva blocks it.
Ali stands up over Dos Santos De Souza Silva, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Ali postures up in Dos Santos De Souza Silva's guard and throws a big left but Dos Santos De Souza Silva blocks it.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva has his foot on Ali's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Ali works his way back into a safe position though.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva working for a triangle but Ali defends it easily.
Ali distracts Dos Santos De Souza Silva with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Ali chips away with some ground and pound.
Ali is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva wants to get back to his feet but Ali is in a dominant position and won't allow it.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Ali is aware though and is defending well.
Hazan Ali is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ali showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Ali has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Hazan Ali has forced the referee to step in and bring the fight back to the feet.
Ali connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ali lands with a nice body punch.
Ali fails with a takedown attempt.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Ali lands a head kick. Dos Santos De Souza Silva smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Ali sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Ali tries to work over Dos Santos De Souza Silva's front leg with a kick but Dos Santos De Souza Silva checks it.

Ali throws a loose over hand right and dives in with a double leg takedown. Dos Santos De Souza Silva tries to sprawl but it's too late and the fighters hit the mat. Ali is in Dos Santos De Souza Silva's guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva wants to sweep here but Ali controlling him for the moment.

Dos Santos De Souza Silva is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Ali is aware though and is defending well.
Ali seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.
Julio Luis Cesar Moreira Dos Santos De Souza Silva has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Dos Santos De Souza Silva striking off his back but it's not causing Ali any problems.
Ali is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.

And that's the end of the fight!
Hazan Ali showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Ali 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 Bishop scores the fight for Hazan Ali!
Judge Richard Clark scores the fight for Hazan Ali!
Judge Paul Tew scores the fight for Hazan Ali!

Hazan Ali wins by unanimous decision!