Marcirley Alves survived a late scare to defeat Justin Wetzell within the PFL World Event bantamweight ultimate on Friday evening in Charlotte.
Alves led the dance in spherical one, discovering his timing and clipping Wetzell with a collection of strong proper palms. Nonetheless, Wetzell did discover some success attacking Alves’ lead leg, compromising the Brazilian’s motion within the second stanza. Via the primary 10 minutes, the calf kick was Wetzell’s greatest weapon whereas Alves dominated the boxing exchanges.
Wetzell began to point out the harm on his face within the third as Alves continued to drag away within the five-round finale. Including insult to harm, Alves reversed a late takedown try from Wetzell, successfully placing him up 3-0 on the scorecards heading into the penultimate spherical.
60 seconds into the fourth, Wetzell lastly managed to get Alves to the mat. Although he couldn’t maintain Alves down for lengthy, Wetzell leaned on his grappling abilities to regulate a lot of the spherical.
Together with his again towards the wall, Wetzell unleashed a flying knee that related with Alves’ chin two minutes into the fifth and ultimate spherical. The blow dropped the Brazilian instantly, prompting Wetzell to fish for a d’arce choke. Alves fought his means out of the maintain and again as much as his toes. Wetzell hit the fuel and landed a stiff one-two with solely seconds left within the battle. Sadly, it wasn’t sufficient as the ultimate second ticked off the clock, sending us to the judges.
Official End result: Marcirley Alves def. Justin Wetzell through unanimous resolution (49-46, 48-47, 48-47) to win the PFL bantamweight world event ultimate.
