PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Jonah Morah (ranked 5533 p4p, 4111 weight class) and Louis Henderson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jonah Morah has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Morah
vs
Henderson

165 cm
18
145
3 - 4 - 0

178 cm
25
145
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Tokzik Dope L.A.

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 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jonah Morah!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Louis Henderson!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Henderson thuds his shin into the meat of Morah's side.
Morah throws a sloppy head kick and Henderson moves out of range easily.
Henderson scores with a sloppy right hand. Morah should have avoided that one.
Henderson digs a good body shot into Morah's ribs.
Henderson moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Henderson lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Morah throws a combination that misses
and Henderson counters with a stiff right hand.
Morah throws a head kick but Henderson moves out of range.
Morah gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Henderson counters with a one-two to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Morah on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Morah shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Henderson sprawls well. Henderson wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Morah gets slowly back to his feet.
Morah gets off balance looking for a body kick
and Henderson counters with a nice uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Henderson scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Morah walks into a jab.
Morah takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Morah is defended easily by Henderson.
Henderson looks like he wants to counter punch here.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Jonah Morah. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Morah is breathing heavily.
Morah lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Henderson circles away quickly and effectively.
Henderson doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Morah gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Henderson scores with a kick to the midsection.
Henderson throws a nice outside leg kick.
Henderson connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Henderson looks to land a combination. Morah sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Morah takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Henderson lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Henderson scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Henderson lands a right hook to the body.
Henderson fakes the leg kick and cracks Morah in the body.
Morah will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.
Morah throws a leg kick but Henderson checks it.
Morah tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Morah takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Henderson lands a nice leg kick that just misses Morah's sensitive parts.
Morah throws a head kick that misses.
Henderson lands a front kick.
Morah throws a body shot but no joy.
Henderson throws a series of strikes that have Morah backpedaling.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Henderson lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Henderson scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Henderson throws a front kick that sends Morah stumbling back into the cage.
Henderson fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Henderson avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Morah fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Henderson scores with a one two! Morah had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Henderson is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
A nice leg kick from Henderson, right into the meat of the thigh.
Morah thows a leg kick but Henderson checks it
and Henderson counters with a nice leg kick.
Henderson stuffs the takedown attempt from Morah. Morah gets slowly back to his feet.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Henderson looks to land a combination. Morah sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Henderson lands a really nice looking cross but Morah seems unphased.
Henderson avoids a punch combination nicely.
Morah throws a body shot but no joy.
Henderson steps in looking to counter with the mid kick but it doesn't connect.
Henderson avoids the body shot from Morah.
Morah shoots and misses
and Henderson counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Morah misses with a combination
and Henderson counters with a good, hard body kick but Morah shrugs it off.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Louis Henderson dominated that round.
That's time! Morah's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Henderson thows a body kick. Morah tries to catch it but that hurt him.
Jonah Morah is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Henderson lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Morah misses with a straight right.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Henderson! But no joy.
Morah on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Henderson. Henderson obviously looking to wear him down.
Morah swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Henderson connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Henderson has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Henderson feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Morahs jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Henderson throws a series of strikes that have Morah backpedaling.
This is turning into a torrid day at the office for Morah. He's trying desperately to land a takedown but he's failing miserably and getting slapped silly on the feet to compound his misery.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Morah.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Henderson scoring well with a low kick there.
Morah tried to score with a low kick but Henderson checks it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morah looks to land a combination but Henderson avoids it well.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Henderson lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Henderson lands with a nice body kick.
This entire fight has taken place on the feet so far and you wonder whether Morah might be better served trying to take this one to the ground because he's losing the standup battle so far.
Henderson throws a nice outside leg kick.
A solid body kick from Henderson.
A solid leg kick lands there for Henderson.
Henderson dodges the punch combination from Morah.
Nice body kick there by Henderson.
Henderson takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Henderson is loading up here, looking for a big counter of his own.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A slapping body kick lands there for Henderson.

Morah looking to score a takedown here. Henderson is defending well but Morah drives through and ends up in Henderson's guard.
Henderson is wriggling around but Morah manages to pass to half guard.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Morah is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Morah 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.
Morah lands strikes from half guard.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Morah lands a nice short elbow.
Morah moves into side control, avoiding the strikes from Henderson.
Henderson being controlled for a moment.
Henderson is trying to get back to half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morah working the ground and pound from side control.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Henderson can do anything to dispel that myth.
Morah trying to control the action but Henderson is working from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Henderson taking punishment in the form of punches.
Morah working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Morah scoring with punches from side control.
Morah landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Morah is putting a hurting on Henderson here, landing some big shots from side control.
Morah working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Morah is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
Morah is looking to take a break and control but Henderson is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:50 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Jonah Morah!