PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Oscar Martinez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Evander Ali (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Martinez
vs
Ali

188 cm
23
212 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

190 cm
23
220 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Prefers standup

BJJ Blue Belt
Good low kicks
Powerful

Monster MMA

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Oscar Martinez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Evander Ali!
The judges for this bout are Dean Styles, John Roberts and Reed Andrews.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martinez dodges the punch combination from Ali.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Ali.
A combination from Ali does no damage.
Ali pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Evander Ali seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Ali drops Martinez with a left and a right! Oh, Martinez is hurt - Ali dives into side control looking to finish!

Martinez is rocked!

It looks like Oscar Martinez has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Martinez looks to move to half guard but instead Ali has passed into mount! Damn!
Oh Martinez is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Ali throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Martinez because Ali loaded up on that one.
Ali content just to control the position here.
Martinez holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Ali tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Martinez seems to have got his legs back now.
Martinez tries to hold on but Ali pushes him away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Martinez tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Ali can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Martinez is looking to escape.
Ali postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Martinez bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Ali and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Evander Ali!