PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jon Aldo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Krokodil Zelenij (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Aldo's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston. Zelenij has chosen Eminem - Evil Deeds as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Aldo
vs
Zelenij

182 cm
25
204 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

191 cm
22
219 lbs
5 - 5 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big right hand

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

KINGDOM
TITAN

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jon Aldo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Krokodil Zelenij!
The judges for this bout are Dean Styles, Anthony Taglia and Steve Montenegro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Zelenij slips a jab from Aldo.
Aldo swings for the body but Zelenij moves out of range.
Aldo ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Aldo stalks Zelenij and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Zelenij's face. Zelenij staggers backwards, shaken.

Aldo darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Zelenij works his way to full guard. Good work.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Zelenij holds on and takes a little breather.
Aldo wants to stand and escape but instead Zelenij has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Aldo looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Zelenij puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Zelenij works his foot free and advances to mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zelenij sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

Zelenij jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but Aldo manages to avoid the submission attempt.
Aldo is letting Zelenij control him for a moment.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zelenij working the ground and pound from side control.

It looks like Jon Aldo has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Aldo tries to buck Zelenij off but Zelenij is having none of it.

Zelenij in side control, working for a kimura. He's got hold of an arm and he's torquing it... Aldo is tapping! That's the end of the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Krokodil Zelenij!
After the fight, Krokodil Zelenij was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.