PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Nuri Jafar (ranked 793 p4p, 80 weight class) and Tyler Mills (ranked 1268 p4p, 133 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Jafar
vs
Mills

175 cm
20
145 lbs
8 - 1 - 0

168 cm
27
150 lbs
6 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Very quick

Powerful takedowns
Basic striking
Powerful

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 8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Nuri Jafar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Tyler Mills!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Daniel Franklin and Sandra Marshall.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jafar connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Nice cross by Jafar.
Jafar lands a nice hook to Mills's body. Mills takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.

Jafar darts in and clinches Mills up against the cage.
Jafar working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Jafar working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Jafar lands a right hand that snaps the head of Mills backwards.
Jafar is working Mills over against the cage.
Jafar blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Mills is looking to take this one to the mat.
Mills jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Jafar walks away with a smile on his face. Mills gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Mills shoots and misses
letting Jafar counter with a right hand.
Nuri Jafar has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Tyler Mills.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mills shoots in for a takedown but Jafar shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Nice cross by Jafar.
We've been told by Jafar's head coaches at Gizmo's Gym that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.

A momentary lapse in concentration from Jafar enables Mills to shoot in and score with a neat double leg. Jafar manages to secure a closed guard as the fighters hit the mat.
Jafar controls Mills momentarily but Mills frees himself.
Jafar avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Jafar is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jafar can't keep his opponent in guard - Mills advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Mills works his foot free and advances to mount.
Mills trying to control but Jafar is having none of it.
Jafar is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Jafar is trying to reverse the position but instead Mills has taken his back - oops!

Mills has managed to slip his arm under Jafar's chin. This could be all over... yep, Jafar is tapping out! Submission win for Mills.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Tyler Mills!
Tyler Mills decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.