PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Erislanda Martinez (ranked 3153 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kyong Li (ranked 22708 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Martinez
vs
Li

175 cm
25
154 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

173 cm
25
155 lbs
0 - 5 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Tends to cut

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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Erislanda Martinez !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kyong Li!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Alan Glass and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Li drives through and clinches with Martinez against the cage.
Li comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Li throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Martinez blocks it with crossed arms.
Li is leaning against Martinez and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Martinez stops a takedown attempt from Li.
Li stops a takedown attempt from Martinez .
Li with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Li swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Martinez is stalling here.

Li breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Li tries to clinch there but Martinez circles away.
Martinez throws a big counter combination but Li scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.

Li closes the distance and clinches.
Li fails to pull guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Martinez drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Li gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Martinez 's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Martinez stops a takedown attempt from Li.
Erislanda Martinez has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Kyong Li.
Martinez drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Li misses with the head strike.
Li throws a punch but it's blocked by Martinez .
Li tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Martinez smiles and moves away.
Martinez shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Li as he avoids it easily.

Martinez looking to score a takedown here. Li is defending well but Martinez drives through and ends up in Li's guard.
Martinez passes into half guard.
Li misses with some strikes from the bottom.
Martinez not doing much here.

Li actively working from the bottom here.
Martinez works his way into full mount!
Martinez has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Li's face.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martinez punishing his opponent with strikes.
Martinez is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Li can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Martinez landing strikes from the mount.
Martinez landing punches.

Li is rocked!
Li is wriggling around trying to escape.
Li is still in real trouble! Can Martinez finish him?
Li swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Li tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Martinez lands a nice shot to the head.
Oooooh, big shot lands for Martinez ! Li is hurt baaadly! Martinez is firing away with more strikes - Li is covering up... the ref is warning him to do something. He's just covering up though still and the ref has to step in to end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Erislanda Martinez !