PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Galen Dall (ranked 326 p4p, 45 weight class) and AJ The Perfectionist (ranked 543 p4p, 77 weight class). Dall comes into the arena with Red - Alredy Over blaring out of the sound system. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Dall
vs
The Perfectionist

180 cm
29
172 lbs
12 - 8 - 0

170 cm
29
176 lbs
14 - 7 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Galen Dall!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, AJ The Perfectionist!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The Perfectionist tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Dall was well out of range. Poor timing from The Perfectionist.
The Perfectionist moves forwards but Dall connects with a nice, crisp jab.

The Perfectionist gets caught napping as Dall dives in and scores a takedown. The Perfectionist manages to retain guard.
The Perfectionist trying to keep a closed guard but Dall is proving a slippery customer.
The Perfectionist controlling Dall's posture.
Dall trying to control the position from guard on top but The Perfectionist is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Dall is looking to advance position but The Perfectionist has hit a scissor sweep - now he's on top in mount!

We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Dall is desperately trying to improve his position but The Perfectionist has a good base and remains in mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Perfectionist looking to finish with strikes here!
The Perfectionist trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The Perfectionist misses with a series of strikes from mount. He'll no doubt be working on his ground and pound when he gets back to the gym.
The Perfectionist landing strikes, looking to finish!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The Perfectionist with shots to the head and body - Dall looks very uncomfortable down there.
The Perfectionist throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Dall working to try and regain half guard.
The Perfectionist can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Dall is looking to escape.
The Perfectionist pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Dall blocking the ground and pound.
My spies in Thomas Top Team inform me that The Perfectionist has been getting involved in the gym's BJJ sparring sessions. Let's see whether that pays dividends!
A nice elbow there by The Perfectionist.
The Perfectionist fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Perfectionist landing punches.
The Perfectionist fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
The Perfectionist throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
The Perfectionist tries to control but Dall wriggling away.
The Perfectionist sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
The Perfectionist tries to control but Dall wriggling away.
The Perfectionist is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dall regains half guard.
Dall makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Dall.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Dall has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but The Perfectionist has passed into side control.
Dall tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but The Perfectionist wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
The Perfectionist throws an elbow but Dall slips to the side and avoids it well.
Dall gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

AJ The Perfectionist dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

The Perfectionist dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
The Perfectionist throws a nice head kick!
The Perfectionist uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
The Perfectionist uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Dall.
Dall moves out of range of the body kick.
An attempted straight right counter from Dall misses the target.
Dall connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
The Perfectionist takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Dall takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Dall lands a head kick!
Dall swinging wildly here.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
The Perfectionist thows a body kick. Dall tries to catch it but that hurt him.
The Perfectionist scores with a leg kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dall rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and The Perfectionist counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
The Perfectionist fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Dall is out of range.
Dall avoids the head kick by The Perfectionist.
The Perfectionist throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Dall counters with an inside leg kick.
Dall misses with a left hand

and The Perfectionist counters with a nice double leg into side control. Dall won't be happy with that.
The Perfectionist working the ground and pound from side control.
Dall manages to work his way to half guard, despite The Perfectionist's best efforts.
The Perfectionist is just content to waste time from the top position. Dall takes advantage of the situation and regains full guard.

Dall had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. The Perfectionist defends it easily.
The Perfectionist passes into half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Dall looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Dall trying to hold on to The Perfectionist's head to control him but The Perfectionist postures up.
The Perfectionist prevents Dall from improving his position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dall regains full guard, whilst avoiding punches from The Perfectionist.
Dall keeping full guard, as The Perfectionist tries to pass.
The Perfectionist chips away with some ground and pound.
Dall looking for a sweep. Not yet Dall, not yet.
The Perfectionist trying to move into half guard but instead Dall has managed to sweep!

Dall trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Dall trying to control but The Perfectionist is working from the bottom.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

The Perfectionist escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Dall gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Dall slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
The Perfectionist is trying to improve his position.
AJ The Perfectionist has got the better of the ground game so far.
Dall trying to control the action but The Perfectionist is working from the bottom.
The Perfectionist is looking to regain half guard here but Dall keeps moving and retains side control.
Dall trying to control the position but The Perfectionist is working away.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

AJ The Perfectionist showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final round!

Dall just misses with a punch to the body.
The Perfectionist on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
The Perfectionist checks a leg kick nicely.
Dall lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
The Perfectionist throws a sloppy head kick and Dall moves out of range easily.
Dall checks a leg kick nicely.
Dall swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Dall swings for the body but The Perfectionist moves out of range.
A clash of legs there as Dall blocks the low kick.
Dall has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by The Perfectionist.
Dall thows a left - swing and a miss!
The Perfectionist thinks about the counter body kick.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
The Perfectionist misses with a straight right.
The Perfectionist is looking to land body kicks.
Dall misses with a straight left.
Dall misses with a body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The Perfectionist takes a body punch but keeps moving.
The Perfectionist scores with a jab to the head.
Dall throws a leg kick that is checked
and The Perfectionist makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Dall really felt that one!
The Perfectionist takes one to the chin there.
Galen Dall is winning the standup battle so far.
The Perfectionist throws a body kick that misses
and Dall counters with an outside leg kick.
The Perfectionist chopping away at his opponent's legs.
AJ The Perfectionist seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Dall stuns The Perfectionist with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
The Perfectionist throws a big shot that misses.
Dall takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
The Perfectionist throws out a leg kick but Dall moves out of range and The Perfectionist only half commits.
The Perfectionist takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Dall swings away with a leg kick that misses.
The Perfectionist pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Dall jinks towards his opponent looking like he wants to counter with a mid kick but doesn't commit.
Galen Dall has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The Perfectionist takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
The Perfectionist feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Dall's calf.
Dall lands with an uppercut that bounces The Perfectionist off the cage and back into range.
The Perfectionist walks into a left hand.
The Perfectionist has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
The Perfectionist throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
The Perfectionist needs to keep his hands up - Dall had a free shot at his head there.
The Perfectionist uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Dall.
The Perfectionist throws out a counter right but Dall avoids it with no problem.
The Perfectionist throws a poor cross that misses
enabling Dall to counter with a crisp jab.
Dall scores with a hook.
The Perfectionist fails to land the takedown.
Dall looked to counter with a high kick but didn't commit.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as The Perfectionist checks a leg kick.

Dall feints and as The Perfectionist raises his hands in defense, Dall changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.

Dall avoids a guillotine attempt easily.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dall tries to free his leg and advance position but The Perfectionist is retaining full guard.
The Perfectionist keeping moving, preventing Dall from controlling successfully.
The Perfectionist keeping full guard, as Dall tries to pass.
AJ The Perfectionist is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
Dall trying to control but The Perfectionist is working from the bottom.
Dall looking to pass the guard.
Dall forces his way into half guard.
The Perfectionist trying to control from the bottom.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Dall trying to control from The Perfectionist's half guard. The Perfectionist has other ideas though and has regained full guard.
The Perfectionist not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Dall wants to control from the top but The Perfectionist keeps moving.
The Perfectionist is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

The Perfectionist with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
Dall tries to get to full guard but The Perfectionist has control of the leg.

And that's the end of the fight!
Galen Dall showed his dominance in that final round.
I think The Perfectionist has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Timothy Bukovac scores the fight 28:29
Judge Frank Antenori scores the fight 28:29
Judge Don Winkell scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... AJ The Perfectionist!
AJ The Perfectionist tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.