PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Danny Tatum (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Malvin Maldi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Maldi has chosen Loituma TECHNO! as his entrance music. Malvin Maldi struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 146.1lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Tatum
vs
Maldi

165 cm
37
148 lbs
29 - 17 - 0

170 cm
37
161 lbs
45 - 25 - 3

BJJ Red Belt
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Zipp Zapp(w. laundry:10%)

Milwaukee's Best Nutrition

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 29 - 17 - 0, fighting out of London, Danny Tatum!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 45 - 25 - 3, fighting out of Helsinki, Malvin Maldi!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Don Winkell and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tatum misses with a body shot.
Maldi thows a left - swing and a miss!
Tatum throws a big shot that misses.
Maldi misses with a left hand

and Tatum counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Tatum looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Tatum prevents a body shot from Maldi.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Maldi misses with a punch to the body.
Tatum is struggling to control the position.

Tatum manages to pull guard.

Maldi avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Maldi works over Tatum with some ground and pound from guard.
Tatum is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Maldi stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Tatum swivels though and keeps the full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Tatum is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Maldi is aware though and is defending well.
Maldi postures up in Tatum's guard and throws a big left but Tatum blocks it.
Maldi scoring with some ground and pound.
Maldi in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Maldi scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Tatum keeping moving, preventing Maldi from controlling successfully.
Maldi working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.

Tatum throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Tatum not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Maldi is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

Tatum throws his legs up looking for a submission but Maldi uses it to pass to side control.
Tatum defending against the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tatum is looking to reverse the position.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Maldi thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
We've been hearing good reports from Tatum's training camp. Apparently he has been rolling around with some good quality BJJ practitioners and has been sharpening his skills. Let's see if that has an impact on the fight today.
Tatum gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Tatum is looking for a sweep. Maldi is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Maldi is looking to take a break and control but Tatum is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Tatum is looking for a sweep. Maldi is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Nice strikes from Maldi there.
Tatum trying to control here.
Tatum is trying to get back to full guard.
Maldi controlling the action here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tatum is refusing to be controlled, as Maldi sits in half guard.
Maldi slows the pace down in half guard.

Tatum looking for submissions off his back.
Maldi keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.

Tatum is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Maldi pulls his head out easily.

Tatum has hold of a guillotine but he's not going to be able to crank on it really with only half guard, so it's no trouble for Maldi. Oh but Tatum has got full guard now! Oh boy! This one could be over very soon! Maldi goes limp - he's gone! Tatum jumps up and celebrates with the crowd - fantastic submission finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Danny Tatum!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Danny Tatum waved his t-shirt featuring Zipp Zapp(w. laundry:10%)'s logo in front of the cameras.