PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Arriorus Adee (ranked 6424 p4p, 523 weight class) and George Diaz (ranked 6016 p4p, 511 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Adee
vs
Diaz

170 cm
19
170 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

187 cm
19
178 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight 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, Arriorus Adee!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, George Diaz!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Andrew Berry and Phil Schofield.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Diaz misses with a jab, cross combination.

Adee closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Adee lands in his opponent's guard.

Diaz is working an open guard so Adee takes the opportunity to get back to his feet.
Adee shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Diaz sprawls well. Diaz wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Adee gets slowly back to his feet.
Adee will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Sloppy strikes from Diaz. Those never looked like landing.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Diaz on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Adee showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Diaz.
Diaz doesn't manage to clinch there - Adee circles away.
Adee shoots in and drives through. Diaz sprawls well.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Arriorus Adee. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Adee shoots for a takedown but Diaz saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Diaz throws out a counter right but Adee avoids it with no problem.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Diaz tries to clinch up but Adee circles away and keeps his distance.
Adee wants to take advantage of his opponent's missed offense by moving into the clinch.
Adee throws a head kick but Diaz moves out of range.
Adee seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Diaz lands a two punch combo.
Adee shoots in but no luck this time.
Diaz scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Diaz has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.

Adee rushes Diaz and presses him up against the cage.
Adee blocks the elbow strike.
Diaz looking to stall.
Adee goes for a takedown attempt but Diaz pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
Diaz throws a right and a left that Adee avoids nicely.
Diaz misses with a few strikes there.
Diaz stuffs the takedown attempt from Adee. Adee gets slowly back to his feet.
Diaz displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Diaz throws a right and a left that both miss.
A punch combination from Diaz misses.
Diaz throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Adee finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.
Diaz thows a left - swing and a miss!

Adee instigates a clinch.

Adee breaks the clinch.
Adee fails with a takedown attempt.
Adee has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.

Diaz gets caught napping as Adee dives in and scores a takedown. Diaz manages to retain guard.
Adee wants to control from the top but Diaz keeps moving.

Diaz has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Adee doesn't defend quickly enough and Diaz has managed to lock this one up! Can Adee escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Diaz on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). George Diaz!