PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Romeo Bray (ranked 23882 p4p, 0 weight class) and Keon Fazeli (ranked 6304 p4p, 0 weight class). Fazeli has chosen Diamonds Dancing as his entrance music. Romeo Bray has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Bray
vs
Fazeli

221 cm
19
151 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

180 cm
19
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Romeo Bray!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Keon Fazeli!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Summer Carpenter and Topper Green.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Fazeli shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Fazeli was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Fazeli is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Bray will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Bray is trying to control Fazeli's posture but Fazeli avoids it.

Fazeli working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Bray really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Bray prevents Fazeli from improving position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Fazeli advances to mount.
Bray tries to get back to half guard but can't.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fazeli content just to control the position here.
Bray is in all sorts of trouble here.
Bray wants to hold on but Fazeli pushes him away.
Fazeli fails to take his opponent's back.

Bray defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Fazeli.
Bray reaches up to try and control the position but Fazeli seems to have an arm triangle now! Uh oh! Bray rolls and tries to escape and now Fazeli has his back!

Fazeli is working hard for the rear naked choke here.
Will Fazeli go for the finish here or will he try and keep control of the position?

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fazeli looking to hold on to the position here but Bray rolls and ends up regaining guard.
Bray controlling Fazeli's posture.
Fazeli trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Bray seems keen to control Fazeli's posture.
Bray trying to control the position.
Fazeli is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Fazeli stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Bray swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Fazeli is stalling in the full guard.
Fazeli working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Fazeli looking to pass the guard.
Bray has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Fazeli darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Fazeli is trying to work for a kimura but Bray is defending well.
Fazeli trying to control the pace.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Fazeli stalling away here and it's allowed Bray to slip out his trapped foot and regain full guard.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Bray controlling the position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Keon Fazeli dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Fazeli throws a series of punches but Bray moves out of range.

Fazeli closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Bray quickly recovers to half guard.

Fazeli seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Bray is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:27 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Keon Fazeli!
In his post fight interview, Keon Fazeli gave a big smile as he said 'BOOM!'.