PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Trin Morales (ranked 3997 p4p, 196 weight class) and Diego Dean (ranked 6982 p4p, 262 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Morales
vs
Dean

170 cm
25
140 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

169 cm
25
143 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Trin Morales!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Diego Dean!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Daniel Franklin and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morales swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Dean counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Morales will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Dean looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Morales is fending him off so far but Dean persists. Nope, Morales circles away and we're back to standing.
Morales misses with the combination.
Morales lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Dean circles away quickly and effectively.
Dean shoots in for a takedown but Morales shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
No luck for Dean with that takedown attempt.
Trin Morales has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Diego Dean.
A punch combination from Morales misses.
Morales throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Morales misses with a few strikes there.
Dean slips a jab and a cross from Morales.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Dean showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Morales.
Morales is breathing heavily.
Morales lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Dean circles away quickly and effectively.

Dean bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morales can't do much from the bottom here.

Dean tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Dean has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

Dean has hold of Morales's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Morales tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Dean cranks the arm and Morales screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Morales, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Diego Dean!
During a confident post fight interview, Diego Dean thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.