PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Atthapong Payakaroon (ranked 7736 p4p, 636 weight class) and Alberto El Parton (ranked 21957 p4p, 681 weight class). El Parton comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Licensed Tequila kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Alberto El Parton has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Payakaroon
vs
El Parton

195 cm
18
223 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

196 cm
31
216 lbs
6 - 18 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Atthapong Payakaroon!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Alberto El Parton!
The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A head kick misses from Payakaroon.
El Parton swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Payakaroon is looking to counter the offense by El Parton and move into the clinch.
Payakaroon lands with a cross.
Payakaroon explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
El Parton keeps the fight on the outside.
Payakaroon looks to clinch

so El Parton counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
El Parton missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
El Parton advances position into side control!
El Parton grinds an elbow into Payakaroon's temple.

El Parton is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Payakaroon knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
El Parton lands a decent elbow from side control.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
El Parton scoring with punches from side control.
El Parton in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Payakaroon is looking to regain half guard here but El Parton keeps moving and retains side control.
Payakaroon sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
Payakaroon's coaches at Crapollas Gym have been working on his defensive grappling in preparation for this fight so let's see if he can get out of this tricky position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
El Parton content to control rather than advance.
Payakaroon controlling the leg, holding on to half guard.
El Parton thows a huge punch but Payakaroon dodges it nicely.
Payakaroon knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for El Parton on the ground.
El Parton looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Payakaroon wants to get back to full guard.
Payakaroon has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. El Parton is working away from the top position though.
Payakaroon is looking to improve his position.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. El Parton lands a nice short elbow.
El Parton drops an elbow to the side of Payakaroon's head.
El Parton perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
El Parton landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
El Parton lands strikes from half guard.
Payakaroon controlling the position well.
El Parton is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

Payakaroon is rocked!
El Parton lands a big elbow - Payakaroon is out of it! He's waving his arms around but his eyes are closed and he's not intelligently defending himself - the ref has no choice but to jump in and stop the fight! This one is in the books! A TKO win for El Parton!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alberto El Parton!
During a confident post fight interview, Alberto El Parton thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.