PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Brandon Murphy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Din Aleshi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Murphy comes to the cage accompanied by Hot Rod. Din Aleshi has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Murphy
vs
Aleshi

183 cm
18
191 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

187 cm
18
196 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Heavy handed

Conquer
Supreme Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brandon Murphy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Din Aleshi!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Matheus Silva and Luis Engracia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Murphy swinging wildly here.
Aleshi looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Aleshi lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Murphy circles away quickly and effectively.
A telegraphed right hand from Aleshi misses the target.

Murphy lands a left and a right that send Aleshi crashing to the mat, dazed. Murphy thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

It looks like Din Aleshi has been cut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Aleshi blocks a jab.
Murphy comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Aleshi.
Murphy misses the shot to the body.
Aleshi swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Aleshi misses with a straight right.
It looked like Murphy was looking amped, ready to throw a big counter but didn't commit.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Murphy crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Aleshi - the referee stops the clock and Murphy gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Aleshi. Murphy manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Murphy misses with the combination.
Murphy misses with a two punch combination.
Murphy throws a shot from downtown. Aleshi moves away and avoids it.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Aleshi. Murphy shrugs it off though.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Murphy throws a right and a left that Aleshi avoids nicely.
Murphy misses with a few strikes there.
Aleshi cracks Murphy with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Aleshi 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.
Murphy has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Aleshi.
Aleshi lands with an overhand left.
Some wild striking there from Murphy.
Aleshi is trying to counter with his kicks.
Aleshi scores with a nice body kick.
Aleshi takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Murphy takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Murphy takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Murphy walks forward, straight into a front kick from Aleshi.
A big left from Murphy misses.
A little jabbing left from Aleshi on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Aleshi darts in and out, connecting with a jab.

Murphy is rocked!
Aleshi drops Murphy with a naaaaasty hook - Murphy is in real trouble here! Aleshi dives in to side control and pounds out his opponent for a TKO victory! The crowd goes nuts!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Din Aleshi!
A victorious Din Aleshi thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.