PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between David Unitas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sergio Morales (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Morales has chosen Fugees Ready or Not as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Unitas
vs
Morales

190 cm
21
215 lbs
5 - 7 - 0

190 cm
26
205 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, David Unitas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Sergio Morales!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Jonathan Paton and Alyssa Summers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morales motions for Unitas to come forward. Morales throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Unitas shoots for a takedown but Morales saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Unitas takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Unitas throws a low kick but Morales avoids it.
Unitas avoids the body shot from Morales.
Some wild striking there from Morales.

Unitas bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Unitas wants to lay and pray for a moment but Morales keeps working.
Morales manages to get back to half guard.
Morales avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Unitas.
Unitas with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
Morales wants to control but Unitas is keeping busy and won't allow it.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Morales might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Unitas kaven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Unitas connects with a nice short shot to Morales's temple.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Unitas is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Morales wants to control but Unitas is keeping busy.
Unitas not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Unitas is looking to take a break and control but Morales is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Morales keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Unitas seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

Unitas seems to be looking for submissions.
Unitas 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.

Unitas is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.

Unitas is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Morales wants to control but Unitas is keeping busy and won't allow it.
Unitas thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Unitas is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Morales has managed to free his arm - good work.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morales is refusing to be controlled, as Unitas sits in half guard.
Morales wants to improve his position but Unitas is controlling well.
Morales wants to control but Unitas is keeping busy.
Morales is not content to let Unitas control the position.

Unitas is working for a kimura but Morales is defending it quite comfortably.

Unitas seems to be working for a kimura but Morales defends the submission attempt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Unitas thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Morales's head.
Morales trying to control from the bottom.
Morales is looking to escape.

Unitas is working for a kimura but Morales is defending it quite comfortably.

Unitas is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Unitas throwing shots but Morales is blocking nicely.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

David Unitas dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Unitas misses with an uppercut
and Morales counters with an outside leg kick.
Morales misses with a body kick.
Unitas closes this distance looking for a takedown but Morales circles away.
Morales keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Horrible takedown by Unitas or perhaps it was just good defense by Morales which made him look bad.
A cross from Unitas lands.
Unitas lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Unitas takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Morales checks a low kick from Unitas.
Morales tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Morales scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Morales throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Morales is looking to slow Unitas down with leg kicks.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Morales.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Morales, right into the meat.
Nice body kick there by Morales.
Morales lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Morales, right into the meat.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Morales throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sergio Morales seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Unitas takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Morales throws a nice head kick!

It looks like David Unitas has been cut.
Morales fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Unitas has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Unitas stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Morales.
Morales goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Morales throws a sloppy head kick and Unitas moves out of range easily.
Morales lands a right hook to the body.
Unitas doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Unitas takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Morales lands with a right hand.
Morales is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Unitas rather than just go for the knockout.
Morales lands a front kick.
Morales throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Morales swinging wildly here.
Morales lands with a thumping leg kick.
Unitas on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Morales. Morales obviously looking to wear him down.
Unitas has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Unitas misses with a straight right.
Unitas blocks a head kick by Morales.
Unitas fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Morales scores with a push kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morales dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Unitas. That did some damage!
An inside leg kick lands from Morales.
Morales connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Unitas avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Morales connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Morales changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Morales throws a one two combo.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Morales lands a head kick. Unitas smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
Morales pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Morales scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Morales throws a head kick that misses.
Unitas takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Unitas blocks a head kick by Morales.
Unitas misses with an uppercut.
A head kick misses from Morales.
Morales leaves Unitas with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for David Unitas. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Morales throws a leg kick that misses.
Morales misses with a double jab.
Unitas wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Morales connects with a body shot.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Unitas takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Morales throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Unitas.
Morales throws a sloppy head kick and Unitas moves out of range easily.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sergio Morales showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on David Unitas's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action. This is the final round!

Unitas throws a poor cross that misses
and Morales counters with a nice body shot.

Unitas looks for a takedown. He's got it. We're now in half guard.
Unitas seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Morales does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Unitas is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Morales is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Unitas lands a nice short elbow.
Morales gets back to full guard.
Unitas wants to control from the top but Morales keeps moving.
Morales pulls Unitas in close to prevent any damage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Unitas is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morales not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Unitas sitting in guard, not really doing much.
Unitas trying to control the position from guard on top but Morales is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Morales has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Unitas will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Morales throws a leg kick that misses.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Morales, right into the meat.
Unitas throws a series of punches but Morales moves out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Unitas throws a series of punches but Morales moves out of range.
Sergio Morales seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Morales plants his feet and lands a nice head kick!
David Unitas is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Morales looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Unitas will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Unitas fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Morales manages to avoid it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Morales throws a right hand that Unitas ducks under and follows up with a left that Unitas also avoids with ease.
Morales throws a head kick but Unitas moves out of range.
Morales looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Morales throws a nice outside leg kick.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Morales.
Morales falls off balance throwing a combination

and Unitas decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Morales's guard.
Morales wants to sweep but no luck.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Unitas throwing strikes from guard but Morales blocks nicely.
Unitas throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Morales preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Unitas trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Morales working a defensive guard but Unitas manages to pass into side control anyway.

Unitas working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.

Unitas goes for an armbar here - this could be all over! But no, Morales has escaped beautifully and is now on top in side control! Oh, that's unlucky for Unitas but great work by Morales.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Unitas wants to escape from the position here - easier said than done!
Unitas is trying to control Morales's posture but Morales avoids it.
Unitas tries to buck Morales off but Morales is having none of it.
Unitas is in a bad spot here and he knows it... just holding on for now.
Morales tries to score with some ground and pound. Unitas controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Morales moving around in side mount but really he's just happy to control for now.

And that's the end of the fight!
David Unitas showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Unitas has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. 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 John Roberts scores the fight 28:28
Judge Jonathan Paton scores the fight 28:28
Judge Alyssa Summers scores the fight 28:28

The fight is ruled a draw!