PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Clotaire Morel (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pleas Honeywood (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Honeywood has chosen Soul by the Pound as his entrance music. Pleas Honeywood has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Clotaire Morel's chin.

Morel
vs
Honeywood

170 cm
22
146 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

168 cm
22
150 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Granite chin

Hell's Kitchen Lab Corp

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Clotaire Morel!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Pleas Honeywood!
The judges for this bout are Jorge Garcia, David Schapiro and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morel tests Honeywood's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Morel fails to land with a series of punches.

Honeywood scores a takedown into full mount!

Honeywood is working for a guillotine from mount but Morel frees his head quite easily.
Honeywood throwing strikes here but Morel is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Morel can't escape the position.
Morel swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Honeywood lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Morel is looking to get to half guard.
Honeywood looking to ground and pound but Morel is blocking nicely.
Morel is looking to get to half guard.
Honeywood throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Morel is in all sorts of trouble here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morel is in a horrible position here. Honeywood smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Honeywood scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Morel?
Morel is bucking up trying to escape but Honeywood cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Morel is trying to escape the mount.
Morel is bucking up trying to escape but Honeywood cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Morel is in a horrible position here. Honeywood smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Honeywood is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Honeywood in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Morel is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Morel is squirming around, avoiding Honeywood's attempts to control the action.
Morel is looking to get to half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Honeywood postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Morel looks a forlorn figure.
Morel is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Honeywood has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Honeywood cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
The referee warns Morel that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

Honeywood looking to secure an arm triangle but Morel defends it well.
Honeywood avoids the attempt from Morel to control.
Honeywood working Morel over with strikes here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morel is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Honeywood lands with some strikes.
Honeywood connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Honeywood unloading with bombs!
Honeywood pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Honeywood landing shots from mount.
Honeywood dominating with strikes here.
Honeywood lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Poor strikes thrown by Honeywood there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Honeywood lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Honeywood pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

Honeywood goes for an armbar but Morel turns quickly into his guard - lovely anticipation from Morel.
Morel is breathing heavily.
Morel lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Morel pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Honeywood is keeping the position for now.

Honeywood had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Morel is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Honeywood Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Morel's back instead.
Honeywood throwing wild punches that miss their target.
Morel looking to control the position.
Honeywood loading up with punches from the back mount - how long can Morel hold on?
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Honeywood lands punches and elbows.
Honeywood misses with punches from the back.
The referee is taking a good look at Morel as he is on the wrong end of some big shots from Honeywood!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pleas Honeywood dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Morel moves into range and clinches up with Honeywood.
Honeywood is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Morel pulls him back up using the underhooks.
Honeywood has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Morel is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Honeywood takes a shot to the head.
Honeywood is pressed up against the cage. Morel has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Honeywood down to the mat. Honeywood avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Morel.
Honeywood is looking to slip a leg under and get half guard but Morel is one step ahead and moves to full mount!
Honeywood is trying to escape the mount.
Morel cracks Honeywood with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Honeywood bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Honeywood in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Honeywood is working Morel over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.

Morel is active off his back here, looking for submissions.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Honeywood working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Honeywood throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Morel striking from his own guard.
Honeywood throwing strikes but missing.
Honeywood content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Honeywood in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

Morel working for submissions but it's allowed Honeywood to get to half guard.
Honeywood is trying to control. Morel wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Honeywood missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

That's two 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.
Honeywood thows a big elbow that misses, also allowing Morel to regain full guard.
Honeywood makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Honeywood working some strikes from top position.
Morel manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Honeywood manages to get himself to full guard.

Morel got a little sloppy there for a moment and Honeywood has worked his way into a loose triangle - can he finish it?! No, Morel has managed to get both his arms back between Honeywood's legs - danger averted.

Honeywood working for a triangle but Morel defends it easily.
Morel working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Honeywood's head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Honeywood looking for a guillotine here but Morel defends easily.
Morel has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

Honeywood throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.

Morel avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Morel controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

Honeywood looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Morel is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.

Honeywood looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.

Honeywood is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Morel is aware though and is defending well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Clotaire Morel will probably get the nod.
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!

Morel shoots in and bounces Honeywood off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.

Morel avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Morel sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Honeywood's guard.

Honeywood actively working from the bottom here.
Morel has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Morel lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Honeywood really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morel lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Honeywood is working to get back to half guard.
Honeywood is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Morel manages to capitalize on a mistake by Honeywood to take his back!
Morel trying desperately to keep hold of the dominant position.
Morel keeps control of the position as Honeywood tries to break free.

Morel looking for the choke from the back.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Honeywood rolls, trying to escape but Morel keeps control of the position.
Honeywood turns into Morel and is now in his guard.
Honeywood content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Morel utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Morel keeping moving, preventing Honeywood from controlling successfully.
Honeywood lands a couple of digs.
Morel looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Honeywood moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.

Honeywood shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Morel napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Honeywood working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Sloppy strikes there by Honeywood.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Honeywood cracks Morel with a big right hand but Morel just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Honeywood misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Morel is working to avoid the ground and pound but Honeywood connects with a decent elbow.
Morel tries to improve position but can't.
Honeywood lands a few punches from side control.
Morel tries to bench press Honeywood off him but Honeywood keeps the position.

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

Honeywood closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Honeywood lands in his opponent's guard.
Honeywood postures up in Morel's guard and throws a big left but Morel blocks it.
Honeywood with a flurry of punches that miss.
Morel not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Honeywood content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Honeywood is in close to Morel's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Honeywood throwing strikes from guard but Morel blocks nicely.
Morel lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Honeywood!

Morel has control of Honeywood's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Honeywood regains control of the situation pretty easily.
Morel thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Honeywood is in all sorts of trouble here.
Honeywood throwing hammer fists to the chest of Morel. What's that going to do exactly?

And that's the end of the fight!
Clotaire Morel showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Morel has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. 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 Jorge Garcia scores the fight 29:28
Judge David Schapiro scores the fight 29:28
Judge Russell Pearce scores the fight 29:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Clotaire Morel!