PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Haffaz Aladeen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Evan Better (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Better has chosen Mother by Danzig as his entrance music. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Aladeen
vs
Better

185 cm
25
185 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

188 cm
24
183 lbs
10 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Haffaz Aladeen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Evan Better!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Gwen Towbar and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Aladeen lands a head shot.
Better tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Aladeen, right into the meat.
Better tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.

Aladeen moves into the clinch.
Aladeen lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Better wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Aladeen lands a hook to the side of the head.
Aladeen connects with a knee to the head.
Aladeen throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Betters head.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Aladeen lands a knee to the body.
Aladeen is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Aladeen throws a knee to the head but misses.
Aladeen trying to land knees to the body.
Better trying to land knees to the body.
Aladeen scores with a shoulder strike.
Aladeen putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Better in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Better tries a knee to the head but Aladeen blocks it.
Knees to the body from Aladeen.
Better looks winded!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Better is pushing Aladeen up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Aladeen lands a hook to the side of the head.

Aladeen breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Better checks a leg kick.
Better tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.
Aladeen dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Better. That did some damage!
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Aladeen - that will leave a mark!
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Better lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Aladeen has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Aladeen and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Better 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.
Better takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.

It looks like Evan Better has been cut.
Aladeen fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Better manages to avoid it.
Aladeen scores with a crisp jab that stopped Better in his tracks.
Aladeen looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Better lands a nice shot that snaps Aladeen's head back.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Better takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Haffaz Aladeen is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Aladeen keeps Better at a distance using the push kick.
Better throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Aladeen tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Better tries a counter takedown but it's more of a dummy move, and he uses it to push himself away.
A bone on bone clash there as Better blocks the leg kick.

Aladeen moves into the clinch.
Aladeen landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Better blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Aladeen using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Aladeen scores a nice knee to the body.

Aladeen manages to break the clinch.
Aladeen scores with a leg kick.
Haffaz Aladeen seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Good leg kick by Aladeen there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Aladeen throws a leg kick but Better sees it coming and moves out of range.
It seemed like Better was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Aladeen tries a head kick but it misses.
Aladeen moves out of the way of the counter high kick fromBetter.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Aladeen looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.

Aladeen gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Aladeen makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Aladeen throws a knee to the head but misses.

Better's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Better misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Better slips a jab and a cross from Aladeen.
Aladeen misses with a leg kick

and Better counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Aladeen gets full guard.

Aladeen looking to try and escape his hips here, looking for a submission. It looks like he's going for a triangle but Better is defending well. Aladeen quickly switches to an armbar and extends the arm! Better has no choice but to tap, to a very quick submission! Wow, that was lightning fast! Aladeen celebrates on the cage, with the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Haffaz Aladeen!
The defeated Evan Better had this to say: 'Lucky, lucky, lucky.'.