PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Colly Davis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chen Khan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Colly Davis could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Chen Khan's chin.

Davis
vs
Khan

170 cm
22
152 lbs
3 - 2 - 1

201 cm
20
152 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 1, fighting out of London, Colly Davis!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Chen Khan!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Colin Fotheringham and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Khan lands a head kick that stumbles Davis and the fighters go to the mat.

Davis is rocked!

It looks like Colly Davis has been cut.
Khan loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Oh Davis is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Khan wants to get up but he can't break Davis's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Davis keeping moving, preventing Khan from controlling successfully.
Khan is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Khan preventing the sweep.
Davis seems to have got his legs back now.
Davis might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Khan trying to stand up but can't free himself from Davis's guard.
Davis is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Khan is looking to escape.
Davis with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Davis looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.

Davis is working for a kimura but Khan is defending it quite comfortably.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Davis stands, ready to strike. The ref makes him back up and allows Khan to get to his feet.
Khan tries to close the distance and clinch but Davis swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Khan tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Davis avoids the head kick by Khan.
Khan tries to close the distance and clinch but Davis swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Khan wants to clinch up but Davis keeps it at a distance.
Khan is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Khan will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.

Khan fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Davis, pushing him back against the cage.
Davis takes a knee right on the jaw!
Khan looks gassed!
Khan prevents a takedown attempt there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Davis wants a takedown but no success here.
Davis is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Colly Davis. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Davis breaks the clinch.
Khan throws a head kick but Davis moves out of range.
Khan lands a high kick!
Davis shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.

Davis changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Khan looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Khan on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Davis lands some shots froms side control.
Khan is trying to get back to his feet.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.

Khan changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Davis looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Khan trying to control the action but Davis is working from the bottom.

Khan decides to stand back up.
Khan throws a sloppy head kick and Davis moves out of range easily.
Khan tries to close the distance and clinch but Davis swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Khan tries to close the distance and clinch up but Davis swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Khan lands with a slapping head kick.
Khan tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Khan is looking to clinch.
Khan throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Davis throws a wild body kick that Khan sees coming a mile off.

Davis closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Khan pushes Davis off looking to stand but Davis dives back in and keeps control.
Davis is keen to just control but Khan is a slippery customer.
Davis performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Davis prevents Khan from standing back up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Davis prevents Khan from improving his position.

Davis is trying to work for a kimura. He's got his hands clasped together - this could be trouble! No, Khan has managed to free his arm - good work.
Davis looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Davis passes the guard and advances to mount!
Davis can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Khan is looking to escape.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Khan is wriggling around trying to escape.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Chen Khan dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Colly Davis'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.

Davis avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Khan checks a low kick from Davis.
Khan tries to clinch but Davis moves out of range.
Khan scoring well with a low kick there.

Davis moves into the clinch successfully.
Khan lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Davis tries to score a body lock takedown but Khan shows good agility there to stay on his feet.

Davis gets double underhooks and manages to take the fight to the ground.
Davis slips nicely into half guard.
Khan pushes Davis off looking to stand but Davis dives back in and keeps control.
Khan has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Davis is working away from the top position though.
Davis stops Khan from getting back to his feet.

Davis is working for a kimura but Khan is defending it quite comfortably.
Davis stops Khan from getting back to his feet.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Khan is defending against the submission attempts here by Davis.

Khan looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Davis performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Khan is looking to get back to full guard here but Davis has managed to pass to side control instead.
Davis dominating with strikes here.
BOOM! Davis connects with a massive shot to the dome!

Davis looking for a guillotine from mount but Khan is having none of it.

Davis is standing up out of mount! Strange tactic there - he must really want this one on the feet!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Davis throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Davis lands a nice shot to the body.
Chen Khan seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Davis shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Khan is trying to escape but when you're mounted that's not too easy.
Khan is looking to improve his position but Davis isn't that keen on the idea.
Khan is trying to get back to his feet but can't.
Khan really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Davis. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Davis controlling his opponent.
Khan bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Khan trying to stand up but can't free himself from Davis's guard.
Khan trying to control the position from guard on top but Davis is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Davis working a defensive guard here.
Colly Davis overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Davis keeping moving, preventing Khan from controlling successfully.
Khan is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Davis looking to control.
Khan wanted to stand there but Davis had control of the position.

Davis uses the cage to get back to his feet.

Davis closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Khan to the mat! Khan manages to get full guard.
Davis preventing the sweep.
Khan keeping moving, preventing Davis from controlling successfully.
Davis chips away with some ground and pound.
Davis pushes down on Khan's leg and manages to get into half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Davis has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.

Davis is working for a guillotine from mount but Khan frees his head quite easily.
Khan squirming around on the bottom, looking to escape.
Davis unloading with bombs!
Khan is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Khan slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.
Khan is trying to maintain the position but Davis is very close to passing his half guard.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Khan gets full guard.
Khan is looking to stand back up but Davis counters by passing into half guard. Oops... bit sloppy there by Khan.
Davis wants to lay and pray for a moment but Khan keeps working.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Colly Davis dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Colly Davis's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! This is the final round!

Khan scores with a shot to the body.
Davis tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Khan scores with a head kick.

Davis pushes Khan up against the cage in a clinch.
Khan drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Davis gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Davis wants a takedown but no success here.
Khan misses with a knee strike.
Khan trying to land knees to the body.

Davis jumps guard.
Khan pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Davis is keeping the position for now.
Khan wants to stand and escape but instead Davis has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Khan is looking to stand up but Davis isn't so interested in that idea.

Khan has his foot on Davis's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Davis works his way back into a safe position though.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Davis preventing the sweep.

Khan scrambles and gets back to his feet.
Davis tries to bum rush Khan with a series of wild strikes but Khan uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Khan tries to clinch up.
Khan throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Davis.
Davis doesn't manage to clinch there - Khan circles away.
Khan connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Davis's hands.
Khan looks to score with a jab to the body but Davis is just out of range.
Khan misses with a head kick.
Davis keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Khan lands a nice leg kick that just misses Davis's sensitive parts.
Khan is looking to clinch.
Khan connects with a high kick.
Davis blocks a head kick by Khan.

Davis looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Davis sitting in guard here, content to control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Davis thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Davis pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Khan is keeping the position for now.
Davis keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Khan's head.
Khan wants to sweep here but Davis controlling him for the moment.
Khan is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Davis is trying to control but can't.
Khan throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.

Davis looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Davis actively working from the bottom here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Davis moves into full guard.
Davis pulls Khan in to control the position.

Davis has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Khan can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Khan has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Davis is proving hard to escape from.

Davis is actively looking for submissions from his back. He's worked himself a little space on the bottom and seems to be going for a triangle. No, he's switched into an armbar! That was slick! Khan rolls with it to try and escape but Davis cranks on the arm and Khan is forced to tap out! This one is aaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:52 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Colly Davis!