PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ely Scott (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ben Dover (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Scott comes to the cage accompanied by party up. Ely Scott has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Scott
vs
Dover

197 cm
24
218 lbs
13 - 7 - 0

185 cm
26
205 lbs
8 - 7 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
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 13 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ely Scott!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ben Dover!
The judges for this bout are Robert Twigg, Wesley Smith and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dover avoids the body shot from Scott.
Dover tries a head kick but it misses.
Scott shoots in for a double leg but Dover sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.

Scott clinches up against the cage.

Dover breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Scott avoids the head kick by Dover.
Scott shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Dover defends it nicely.
Scott avoids the head kick by Dover.
A jab lands there for Dover.
Scott scores with a nice body kick.
Scott lands a slapping body shot.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Scott lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Dover swats away the attempt to clinch by Scott.
Scott shoots in but no luck this time.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Ely Scott. That's going to take a lot out of him.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dover throws a sloppy head kick

and Scott counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Dover is looking to get back to full guard here but Scott has managed to pass to side control instead.
Scott looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Dover is avoiding damage well.

Scott is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Dover has escaped the position, nice work there.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Scott is in a dominant position here, looking for a kimura. Dover looks calm but he's in trouble here. Scott gets his leg over his opponent's head and yanks on the arm. Dover is tapping like a morse code operator on the titanic! SOS! SOS! Scott lets go of the hold and Dover can pop his arm back in it's socket.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Ely Scott!