PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Balan Syed (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lonnie Poon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Poon is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Jerk It Out-Caesars. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Syed
vs
Poon

184 cm
20
170 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

190 cm
22
180 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Balan Syed!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lonnie Poon!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, George Francis and Robert Twigg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Syed gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Syed tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Poon has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Poon working hard to break the clinch.
Syed fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Syed lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A shot in the inside from Syed.
Poon is trying to push Syed away but Syed has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Poon takes an elbow to the forehead.
Poon can't break the clinch.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Syed.
Syed has Poon pressed against the cage, preventing Poon from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Syed misses with a hook from the clinch.
Poon takes an elbow to the forehead.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A head punch on the inside from Syed fails to land.
Poon is trying to push Syed away but Syed has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Syed fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Syed scores with a nice hook to the head.
Poon is trying to push Syed away but Syed has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Syed lands with a short shot to the head.
Syed throws an elbow but it misses.
Poon can't break the clinch.
Syed pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Poon can't break the clinch.
Poon wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Syed swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Syed throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Syed.
Poon tries to break the clinch but Syed is controlling the position.
A shot in the inside from Syed.
Syed fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Syed lands with a light punch inside.
Poon blocks an uppercut.
Syed throws an elbow that misses.
Poon wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Syed misses with a short punch on the inside.
Poon has had enough of the clinch but Syed keeps him there for the moment.
Syed lands a hook that snaps the head of Poon backwards.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Poon.
Syed misses with a short punch on the inside.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Syed lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Syed throws a head punch that misses.
Syed misses with some punches.
Poon blocks an elbow strike.
Syed has a couple of punches blocked by Poon.
Syed has a couple of punches blocked by Poon.
Syed looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Poon blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Poon avoids the elbow strike from Syed, against the cage.
Syed scores with a nice hook to the head.
A short right from Syed on the inside.
Poon looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Poon has had enough of the clinch but Syed keeps him there for the moment.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Syed gets through Poon's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

Poon is rocked!
A head punch blocked on the inside by Poon.
Poon is still on wobbly legs! Can Syed finish him?
A head punch on the inside from Syed fails to land.
Poon seems to have recovered his senses.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Syed.
Poon blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Syed misses with the head strike.
Syed lands a nice uppercut.
Poon wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Syed gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Poon breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Syed tries to clinch but Poon is having none of it.
Syed tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Poon paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Poon swats away the attempt to clinch by Syed.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Balan Syed dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

The fight stays on the outside here - Syed looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Syed swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.

Syed closes the distance and clinches.
Poon blocking some punches.
Poon blocks the elbow strike.
Poon can't break the clinch.
Syed doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Balan Syed has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Poon blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Syed.
Poon working hard to break the clinch.
A nice right hand lands inside from Syed.
Poon's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Syed working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Nice elbow from Syed.
Poon tries to break free but Syed pushes him back against the cage.
Syed has a couple of punches blocked by Poon.
Syed lands with a right to the head.
Poon wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Syed has him pressed against the cage.
Syed lands with a light punch inside.
Poon blocking some punches.
Syed creates some distance for himselfand unleashes a massive uppercut that sends Poon's eyes rolling into the back of his head! Poon drops to his knees and Syed pours it on with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:49 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Balan Syed!