PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Vladimyr Alucard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Navorro Bowman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vladimyr Alucard has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Alucard
vs
Bowman

170 cm
22
135 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

170 cm
21
146 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter striker
Intelligent

Crippler's Corner

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Vladimyr Alucard!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Navorro Bowman!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Wesley Smith and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Excellent takedown into side control there by Bowman.
Bowman works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Bowman lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.

Bowman decides to stand back up. Bowman steps back and let's Alucard get back to his feet.
Alucard fails with the takedown

and Bowman counters with a shoot takedown. Alucard fights it but they end up in guard.
Alucard is breathing heavily.
Bowman scoring with punches to the head and body.
Bowman scores with a decent looking elbow strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bowman postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Bowman with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Bowman postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Bowman content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Bowman makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.

Bowman stands up and waves to Alucard to follow him.

Bowman scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Alucard has hold of Bowman's hands but Bowman slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Bowman working the head and body with strikes.
Bowman takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Bowman frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Bowman scoring with strikes but Alucard is staying in there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bowman landing strikes, looking to finish!
Bowman breaks from Alucard's wrist control and lands an elbow.
BOOM! Bowman connects with a massive shot to the dome!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Bowman with the ground and pound from mount.
Bowman raining down shots from the mount!

Alucard is rocked!
Bowman cracks Alucard with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Oh Alucard is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Bowman cracks Alucard with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

Bowman working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Alucard looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Bowman! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Navorro Bowman!