PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tony Tucker (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Demitrious Dalby (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Dalby's choice of entrance music: TOM PETTY - I WON'T BACK DOWN. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Tucker
vs
Dalby

195 cm
18
205 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

199 cm
25
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Good elbows
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Tony Tucker!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Demitrious Dalby!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, Daniel Franklin and David Hoff.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dalby tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Tucker manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

Dalby moves into the clinch.
Tucker definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Dalby putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Tucker in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Dalby.
Dalby unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Dalby creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Tucker's defenses.
Dalby gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

It looks like Tony Tucker has been cut.
Dalby using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Dalby scores a nice knee to the body.
Tucker throws a punch but it's blocked by Dalby.
Dalby lands a knee to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A frustrated look appears on Tucker's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Dalby tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Tucker's elbow.
Knees in the clinch landing for Dalby.
Tucker is breathing heavily.
A head punch on the inside from Dalby fails to land.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tucker tries to break the clinch but Dalby is controlling the position.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Dalby obliges.
Dalby lands an elbow that stopped Tucker in his tracks for a moment.
Tucker misses with the head strike.
Tucker working hard to break the clinch.
Dalby lands a knee to the head.
A frustrated look appears on Tucker's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Tucker misses with a hook from the clinch.
Tucker tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
A nice right hand lands inside from Tucker.
Dalby lands an elbow just above Tucker 's eye.
Knees in the clinch landing for Dalby.
Dalby crunches a lovely knee into Tucker's ribcage.
Dalby working Tucker over with knees to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Dalby lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tucker lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Dalby.
Tucker wants to get back to striking at distance but Dalby won't allow it.
Dalby blocks an uppercut.
Dalby blocking some punches.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Dalby.
Dalby tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Tucker's elbow.
Knees in the clinch landing for Dalby.
Dalby lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Dalby landing knees to the body.
Tucker fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Tucker misses with the head strike.
Tucker stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Dalby lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Knees to the body from Dalby.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Dalby obliges.
Tucker working aggressively here.
Tucker wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Tucker can't find room to land a body shot as Dalby controls the action.
Dalby lands a nice elbow.
Dalby scores with a knee to the head.

Tony Tucker's cut is getting worse.
Dalby lands an elbow inside that Tucker shrugs off.

Tucker is rocked!
Tucker is pressed against the cage. Dalby pushes back and unleashes a big elbow that really hurts Tucker! Two more big strikes from Dalby and Tucker crumples to the mat and taps out furiously due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Demitrious Dalby!
After the fight, Demitrious Dalby was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.