PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Paul Morrison (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ruben Santana (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Santana comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Deep Space 9mm kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Ruben Santana is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Morrison
vs
Santana

182 cm
21
177 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

183 cm
26
178 lbs
4 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Knockout power

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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Paul Morrison!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ruben Santana!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, John Roberts and Jonathan Paton.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santana misses with a double jab
enabling Morrison to counter with a crisp jab.

Santana gets tackled into the cage by Morrison. Morrison maintains the clinch.
Santana looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Morrison lands a body punch in the clinch.
Morrison is working Santana over against the cage.
Santana tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Santana is trying to break free.
Morrison with a knee to the head.

It looks like Ruben Santana has been cut.
Santana fails to pull guard.
Morrison stops a takedown attempt from Santana.
Morrison lands a hook that snaps the head of Santana backwards.
Morrison keeps control of Santana as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Morrison works on Santana's body with a couple of short punches.
Santana looks gassed!

Santana breaks the clinch.
Nice cross by Morrison.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Morrison slaps away a takedown attempt from Santana, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Paul Morrison has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ruben Santana.
Santana misses with a hook

and Morrison counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Morrison.
A knee to the head by Morrison.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
The crowd are getting pretty annoyed with Morrison for his constant stalling in the clinch and are voicing their displeasure.
A knee to the head by Morrison.

Santana is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morrison utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Santana is still on wobbly legs! Can Morrison finish him?
Morrison lands an elbow inside.
Morrison lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Santana to his knees! Morrison keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:15 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Paul Morrison!