PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between JD Dayley (ranked 8316 p4p, 451 weight class) and Francesco Skrarez (ranked 3817 p4p, 305 weight class). JD Dayley has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Dayley
vs
Skrarez

177 cm
21
155 lbs
3 - 7 - 0

165 cm
29
158 lbs
5 - 9 - 0

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Good chin

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Granite 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 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, JD Dayley!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 9 - 0, fighting out of London, Francesco Skrarez!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Arvi Lind and Johanna Lukiainen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Skrarez moves into the clinch successfully.
Skrarez with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Dayley is working for takedown but Skrarez is calmly controlling the position for now.
Skrarez scores with a shot to the side of Dayley's head.
Skrarez misses with a hook to the ribs.
A short right from Skrarez.
Skrarez lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Skrarez creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Skrarez working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Skrarez doesn't land with the attempted body shot.

Dayley turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Skrarez is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Skrarez manages to work his way to half guard, despite Dayley's best efforts.
Skrarez tries to get to full guard but Dayley has control of the leg.

Dayley is working for a kimura but Skrarez is defending it quite comfortably.
Skrarez is trying to maintain the position but Dayley is very close to passing his half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dayley stops Skrarez from getting back to his feet.
Dayley throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Skrarez keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Dayley missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Dayley has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Dayley lands strikes from half guard.
Skrarez makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Skrarez.

The fighters are working up against the cage. Skrarez manages to wriggle his way back to his feet, so the fighters are now clinched against the cage.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Skrarez obliges.
Skrarez struggles to land a body shot inside as Dayley controls his hands.
Skrarez misses with a hook from the clinch.
Skrarez misses with a punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Skrarez tries to land knees in the clinch but Dayley avoids the damage to the body.
Dayley has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Skrarez is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Dayley can't get the takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for JD Dayley. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Skrarez working Dayley over with knees to the body.
Dayley is breathing heavily.
Skrarez gets through Dayley's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Skrarez misses with a punch to the body.
Skrarez cracks Dayley with a nice body shot.
With the fighters up against the cage, Skrarez throws an elbow but misses.
Skrarez misses with a hook to the ribs.
Skrarez tries to land knees in the clinch but Dayley avoids the damage to the body.
Skrarez tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Skrarez tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Dayley drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Skrarez gets the underhooks and prevents it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Skrarez creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Skrarez doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Skrarez tries to work over Dayley's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Dayley has been working on his balance at Bi-Polar Asylum LV's #1 Public Training Center , so perhaps that has help him stuff some of the takedown attempts by Skrarez.
Skrarez misses with a body punch.
Dayley avoiding damage as Skrarez throws knees to the body.
Skrarez unloads a knee to the mid-section. Dayley lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Dayley.
Dayley prevents a body shot from Skrarez.
Skrarez lands with a short shot to the head.
Skrarez scores with a shoulder strike.
A short left from Skrarez.
Skrarez gets through Dayley's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

Dayley is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Skrarez lands a hook that snaps the head of Dayley backwards.
Oh Dayley is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Skrarez lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Dayley backwards.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Skrarez throws a big uppercut that drops Dayley! More strikes from Skrarez and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Dayley lies dazed against the cage as Skrarez celebrates with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:15 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Francesco Skrarez!
A very excited looking Francesco Skrarez made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.