PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Edi El Mafoodi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cole Konrad (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). El Mafoodi comes to the cage accompanied by walk like an egyptian... Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

El Mafoodi
vs
Cole Konrad

222 cm
22
265 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

200 cm
22
270 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Edi El Mafoodi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Cole Konrad!
The judges for this bout are Ian Loll, Elvis Blanc and Robert Douchet.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice takedown defense from El Mafoodi. No joy for Konrad on that attempt.
El Mafoodi tries to close the distance and clinch but Konrad swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
El Mafoodi lands an elbow that stopped Konrad in his tracks for a moment.

It looks like Cole Konrad has been cut.
El Mafoodi misses with an elbow over the top.
Konrad blocks an elbow strike.
El Mafoodi comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Konrad blocks the elbow strike.
El Mafoodi lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Konrad tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. El Mafoodi just stands there and leans against the cage.
El Mafoodi lands an elbow just above Konrad 's eye.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, El Mafoodi just misses with a elbow thrown towards Konrad's brow.
Konrad tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Edi El Mafoodi has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Cole Konrad.
El Mafoodi blocks a body shot from Konrad.
A nice glancing elbow lands by El Mafoodi.
Konrad fails to pull the fight into his guard.
El Mafoodi lands an elbow inside.
Konrad goes for a takedown attempt but El Mafoodi pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
El Mafoodi tries to close the distance and clinch but Konrad swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
El Mafoodi moves in looking to clinch but Konrad pushes him off.
Konrad dives in and grabs El Mafoodi's left leg, looking for a takedown. El Mafoodi pushes down on Konrad's head and hops out.
El Mafoodi tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's one minute gone in the round.
El Mafoodi fails with an attempt to clinch.
El Mafoodi tries to close the distance and clinch but Konrad swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
El Mafoodi really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

Konrad looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
El Mafoodi avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Konrad prevents El Mafoodi from getting back to his feet.
Konrad working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Konrad advances to half guard.
El Mafoodi keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Konrad is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
Konrad is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Konrad throws a strike but El Mafoodi avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
Konrad in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Konrad throwing strikes from guard but El Mafoodi blocks nicely.
Konrad tries to free his leg and advance position but El Mafoodi is retaining full guard.
Konrad is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
El Mafoodi keeping moving, preventing Konrad from controlling successfully.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Konrad pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. El Mafoodi is keeping the position for now.
El Mafoodi keeping moving, preventing Konrad from controlling successfully.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
El Mafoodi stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and El Mafoodi wants it to stay on the feet.
El Mafoodi tries to clinch but Konrad moves out of range.
Konrad circles away from the clinch attempt.
El Mafoodi is looking to clinch but Konrad is avoiding it.
El Mafoodi tries to close the distance and clinch up but Konrad swats him away and circles back towards the center.

El Mafoodi clinches up against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
El Mafoodi throws an elbow but it misses.
Konrad blocks an elbow strike.
El Mafoodi creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Konrad's defenses.
El Mafoodi misses with an elbow strike.
El Mafoodi prevents a takedown attempt there.
Konrad dodges an elbow strike from El Mafoodi.
El Mafoodi keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Konrad's efforts to push away.
Konrad takes an elbow to the forehead.

That has opened up Cole Konrad's cut even more.
El Mafoodi lands an elbow inside that Konrad shrugs off.
Konrad blocks the elbow strike.
El Mafoodi throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
El Mafoodi letting Konrad take a breather here.
El Mafoodi creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Konrad jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as El Mafoodi walks away with a smile on his face. Konrad gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
El Mafoodi tries to close the distance and clinch up but Konrad swats him away and circles back towards the center.
El Mafoodi fails in his attempt to clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - El Mafoodi looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Konrad swats away the attempt to clinch by El Mafoodi.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Edi El Mafoodi will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Cole Konrad's cut.
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.

Konrad gets the takedown into side control.
Konrad lands a few punches from side control.
Konrad misses with the ground and pound.
El Mafoodi is looking for a sweep.
Konrad throwing strikes but El Mafoodi manages to buck up and roll into a nice reversal - now he's on top in side control!
You can see the frustration on Konrad's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
El Mafoodi advances nicely into full mount.
El Mafoodi throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Konrad because El Mafoodi loaded up on that one.
El Mafoodi throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Konrad is trying to escape the mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
El Mafoodi trying to control but he's not successful this time.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Konrad can do anything to dispel that myth.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Konrad is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Konrad is in all sorts of trouble here.

El Mafoodi moves into side control, trying to work for a kimura. That looks painful! Will he finish!!?? No, Konrad has worked his arm free - good work by Konrad!
Konrad gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
El Mafoodi sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Konrad defending well though.
Konrad is trying to maintain the position but El Mafoodi is very close to passing his half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Konrad wants to get back to full guard.
Konrad trying to control but El Mafoodi postures up.
Konrad is doing well to control the position and prevent El Mafoodi from advancing to side control.

Konrad kicks off El Mafoodi and gets to his feet.
El Mafoodi wants to clinch up but Konrad keeps it at a distance.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
El Mafoodi lands an elbow inside.
Konrad is trying to break the clinch but El Mafoodi has him pressed against the cage.

Konrad jumps guard and drags El Mafoodi to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Konrad trying to control the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Konrad is doing well to control the posture of his opponent and prevent any damage.
Let's hope that Konrad has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Konrad wants to sweep but no luck.
Konrad is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Konrad is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Konrad keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Konrad scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Konrad looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks El Mafoodi with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Nice strikes from Konrad there.
Konrad is just content to waste time from the top position. El Mafoodi takes advantage of the situation and regains full guard.
Konrad looking to control the position here, rather than advance.

Despite being in the dominant position, Cole Konrad just isn't active enough and the referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
El Mafoodi wants to clinch up but Konrad keeps it at a distance.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Cole Konrad showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Cole Konrad's cut.
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. This is the final round!

Konrad tries for a takedown but El Mafoodi sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Konrad circles away from the clinch attempt.
Cole Konrad is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
El Mafoodi tries to clinch but Konrad is having none of it.
Edi El Mafoodi seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
El Mafoodi tries to clinch up.

El Mafoodi gets caught flat footed, as Konrad shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
El Mafoodi keeping moving, preventing Konrad from controlling successfully.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Konrad is pushing down on El Mafoodi's leg trying to pass to half guard. El Mafoodi is fighting to maintain full guard but Konrad has managed to sneak the leg through.
Konrad sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. El Mafoodi defending well though.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Konrad throwing shots but El Mafoodi is blocking nicely.
Konrad is keen to just control but El Mafoodi is a slippery customer.
Konrad lands with a punch from half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Konrad thows a huge punch but El Mafoodi dodges it nicely.
Konrad scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Konrad scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Konrad seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Konrad slows the pace down in half guard.
Konrad trying to control from half guard but El Mafoodi is working away.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Konrad missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Konrad thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed El Mafoodi's head.
Konrad not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Konrad not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Konrad with the ground and pound but El Mafoodi uses the opportunity to regain guard.
Konrad in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.

Konrad closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. El Mafoodi did well to prevent Konrad getting side control.
Konrad is figuring out what he wants to do next.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Konrad thows a huge punch but El Mafoodi dodges it nicely.
Cole Konrad has got the better of the ground game so far.
El Mafoodi blocking the ground and pound attempt from Konrad.
Konrad looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Konrad seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but El Mafoodi does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Konrad throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Konrad missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
El Mafoodi blocking the ground and pound attempt from Konrad.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Konrad wants to lay and pray for a moment but El Mafoodi keeps working.
El Mafoodi keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Konrad is thwarting El Mafoodi's attempts to control the position.
Konrad throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.

Konrad shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Konrad looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Konrad cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!

And that's the end of the fight!
Cole Konrad comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Konrad 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 Ian Loll scores the fight 28:29
Judge Elvis Blanc scores the fight 28:29
Judge Robert Douchet scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Cole Konrad!