PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Erick Sierra (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Seifer Almasy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Almasy comes into a darkened arena with his song building. The Black Mages - Force Your Way kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! The crowd giving both fighters a great reception on their way into the arena. That's good to see.

Sierra
vs
Almasy

183 cm
24
215 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

188 cm
27
215 lbs
11 - 8 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Erick Sierra!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Seifer Almasy!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Almasy clinches up against the cage.
Almasy is looking for a takedown.
A head punch on the inside from Almasy fails to land.
Sierra working aggressively here.
Almasy prevents a body shot from Sierra.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Almasy.
Almasy landing knees to the head.

It looks like Erick Sierra has been cut.
Sierra tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Almasy avoids it.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Almasy effectively controlling the action here.
Almasy tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Sierra pushes off an throws an elbow but Almasy leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Sierra dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Almasy tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Sierra struggles to land a body shot inside as Almasy controls his hands.
Almasy avoids the elbow strike from Sierra, against the cage.
Almasy landing some nice looking knees to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Almasy lands a right hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Almasy.
Sierra misses with an elbow strike.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Almasy.
Almasy working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Almasy stalling against the cage.
Almasy lands a left hand.
Almasy with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Almasy is trying to stall.
Almasy landing knees to the head.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Sierra.
Almasy lands a good knee to the midsection. Sierra won't want to take too many of those.
Almasy content to slow the pace in the clinch.
This has been an exciting period of action!
We've been informed that Almasy has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Sierra throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Almasy blocks it with crossed arms.
Sierra trying to land knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sierra managing to block the knees to the body from Almasy.
Sierra is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Sierra takes a knee right on the jaw!
Sierra is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Almasy is keeping busy.
Almasy misses with a knee to the head.
Almasy working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Almasy trying to land knees to the body.
Sierra stalling in the clinch but Almasy improves position.

Almasy gets a nice trip takedown into half guard.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Almasy throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

Sierra looking for submissions off his back.

Sierra is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Almasy pulls his head out easily.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Almasy wants to control but Sierra is keeping him busy.
Almasy slips a nice elbow through Sierra's hands, connecting with Sierra's forehead.
Almasy is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Sierra!
Almasy lands a big shot there that rocks Sierra but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Almasy lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Almasy raining down hammerfists from mount.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Almasy postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Sierra looks a forlorn figure.

Sierra is rocked!
Sierra takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Oh Sierra is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Sierra is wriggling around trying to escape.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Sierra seems to have got his legs back now.
A big strike lands for Almasy! That's really hurt Sierra and he's turned his back - Almasy keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Almasy jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Seifer Almasy!