PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kenji Murofushi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nate Alldren (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alldren has chosen OK State Fight Song as his entrance music. Kenji Murofushi has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Murofushi
vs
Alldren

186 cm
20
212 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

191 cm
21
223 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Global Empire MMA Gear

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 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kenji Murofushi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Nate Alldren!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Hirohito Nitta and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alldren just misses with a punch to the body.
Murofushi with a hook.
Murofushi throws the left hand but Alldren avoids the punch easily.
Murofushi misses with the combination.
Alldren swats away the attempt to clinch by Murofushi.
Murofushi throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Alldren ducks under a wild hook from Murofushi.

Alldren scores a takedown into full mount!
Alldren tries to control but Murofushi wriggling away.
Poor strikes thrown by Alldren there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Alldren connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Alldren lands a big shot there that rocks Murofushi but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Murofushi is wriggling around trying to escape.
Murofushi wants to hold on but Alldren pushes him away.
Alldren punching from mount but Murofushi doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Murofushi is trying to escape the mount.
Murofushi taking shots to the head.
Alldren landing shots from mount.
Alldren avoids the attempt from Murofushi to control.
Alldren controlling the pace for now.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Alldren cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Alldren in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Alldren tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Alldren scores with a couple of good head shots there.

Murofushi is rocked!
Alldren cracks Murofushi with a big head shot that has him covering up instantly! He's rolled onto his side and the referee has seen enough - this one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nate Alldren!
After the fight, Nate Alldren 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.