PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Lucky Day (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lucas Perez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lucas Perez struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 136.2lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Lucky Day has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Day
vs
Perez

177 cm
25
144 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

189 cm
25
144 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Basic striking
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Heavy handed

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Lucky Day!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Lucas Perez!
The judges for this bout are Jack Bonds, Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Day throws a right hand that misses

and Perez holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Day tries for a takedown. No joy.

Perez manages to break the clinch.
Lucky Day seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Day throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Perez's waist but Perez gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Day off to one side.

Perez closes the distance and clinches.

Perez breaks the clinch.
Nice shot lands for Day.
No joy there for Perez, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Day fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Lucky Day. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Perez shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Perez showed some decent athleticism there.
Perez not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.

Day is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Perez pulls his head out easily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Perez is looking to take a break and control but Day is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Day wants to get back to full guard.
Perez is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.

Day looking for submissions off his back.
Perez is looking to take a break and control but Day is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Nice strikes from Perez there.
Day wants to get back to full guard.

Day has guillotine here! It looks pretty tight! Could this be all over! No, Perez escapes and passes into side control at the same time. Nice work there by Perez!
Day is not content to let Perez control the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Perez misses with the ground and pound.
Day is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Day manages to work his way to half guard, despite Perez's best efforts.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Perez trying to control from half guard but Day is working away.
Perez working Day over with strikes.
Day moves into full guard.
Day might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.

Day has managed to work for a loose triangle. I think Perez should be able to defend this one pretty easily though. Oh, Day has tightened it up now! Perez should have reacted faster there - he's in big trouble and yes, he's tapped out! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Lucky Day!