PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Athrun Zala (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Graham Wellington (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zala comes to the cage accompanied by Drowning Pool - Bodies. Wellington comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Suffragrette City kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Zala
vs
Wellington

185 cm
26
220 lbs
10 - 9 - 0

190 cm
28
218 lbs
27 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Fast

[CBK] The Smashwear Corporation

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 10 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Athrun Zala!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 27 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Graham Wellington!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Taro Takaoka and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Wellington slips under a jab from Zala.
Wellington lands the left hand.
Zala shoots in for a double leg but Wellington sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
Zala has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Zala there as he acknowledges the shot.
Wellington with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.

Wellington gets caught napping as Zala dives in and scores a takedown. Wellington manages to retain guard.
Zala passes Wellington's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Zala tries to pass the half guard into mount. Wellington knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Zala passes the guard and advances to mount!
Zala lands a big elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zala is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Wellington is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Wellington is trying to escape the mount.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Wellington is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Wellington is in all sorts of trouble here.
Zala trying to control but Wellington is having none of it.
Zala with a couple of short strikes.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Wellington blocking the ground and pound.
Wellington is trying to escape the mount.
Zala punching from mount but Wellington doing a good job of avoiding damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zala with good strikes from the mount here!
Zala wants to control the pace but Wellington is squirming around nicely.
Zala prevents Wellington from getting the reversal.
Zala is landing with some decent strikes but Wellington is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Wellington is looking to improve his position but Zala isn't that keen on the idea.
Zala controlling from the full mount.
BOOM! Zala connects with a massive shot to the dome!

Wellington is rocked!
Zala softens up his opponent with a couple of shots there and then CRACK! One massive shot lands there and Wellington is out cold! Zala jumps to his feet and celebrates on the cage with the fans, who are, quite frankly, going absolutely mental!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Athrun Zala!