Fight Highlights | Elle Brooke vs. Paige VanZant

Let's get to our tail the tape for this, our main event of the evening and what a main event it should be. We don't know what's going to happen. Paige Van Zandt, former UFC fighter, bare knuckle fighter. She left to focus on modeling, waited for some opportunity to pique her interest, something to bring her back. And this was it. She wants Elle Brooks title. Both of these women with millions of followers on social media. What's going to happen in this five rounder for the Misfits? Female middleweight title. Elle Brooks, just even there before the fight started. See if she can channel that towards the fight. Lots of energy here from both girls. Elle looks like she belongs there at the start of this fight, though. She certainly does. Right hand from Van Zandt. Combinations of Van Zandt starting to show a difference here. Yeah, the jab can make all the difference in the world. Oh, nice right hook there. Short right hook from Elle. We've got five rounds to work. Van Zandt has a two inch reach advantage. She does. She did. Oh, caught her with a. Oh, my goodness. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a war. Paige Van Zandt starting to land that right hand, find her range. Paige definitely looking like the much bigger fighter here. She is, and she had some trouble with her weight cut coming into this. Nice left there for Brooklands, but she ate a punch at the same time. Elle doing a good job with her footwork, though, moving well. Everybody has to know that this fight shouldn't be close and Elle's making it look better than I think a lot of people would have expected. Keep in mind, only two minute rounds here for women. Can you imagine an influencer is fighting Paige Van Zandt and going toe to toe with her? And this is what I said. Oh, Paige Van Zandt! That was the question that we had. Does Elle Brook have the power to put down Paige Van Zandt? And she just answered that question. My goodness! That was the same shot that put Alexia Grace away. Can Elle follow it up? Paige Van Zandt doesn't know what hit her. What a moment! Something from Elle we have to see is she has to remember to maintain those fundamentals. Keep doing what you are doing. Keep doing what was successful. Nice left hook from Paige. Caught out there. Step back, step back. Good combinations here for Paige. Yeah, this arena is still shell shocked. It's one thing to do well against Paige Van Zandt, but to drop her in the first round and she threw another big, heavy shot. Left hook lands clean for Paige Van Zandt. Nice uppercut from Paige. Elle's holding on now. She's hurt. Over here, over here. What a fight so far. Takes another shot. What a fight this is. I tell you, Elle Brook has improved so much. Every single fight. She caught her with her right hand again. Elle needs to find the way, though. She's been hurt a little bit here. She needs to recover while still staying in the game. What a fight back and forth with these two ladies. They're putting it all on the line, aren't they? There's no question. We said they earned this main event slot, and there is no question about it. A couple of nice jabs from Elle. This is a close round, guys. I'm almost speechless. This is such a good fight. Amazing fight. So here we are, round three, scheduled for five. Paige Van Zandt's corner seems to think that Brook is fading away. A lot of composure in the corner of Elle Brook, though, whereas there's a lot more intensity in the corner from Paige Van Zandt. Yeah, in and out boxing is what they're recommending for Paige, and I agree with that, obviously, with her reach. Now, Paige is soaking in that information very well. You can see she's really taking it in. She's really understanding and cognizant. Oh, throwing some bombs now. Elle's got to get disciplined with the placement of her own right hand. Defensively, that left hook's been landing. Punch out, punch out. No holding, no holding. Can we have the prime knockdown of the night? Is that what we're going to have to settle on if we don't get a KO here? Because that would be the one. Elle doing well with shots to the body there, but right now, just the volume of Paige Van Zandt is turning the tide of this fight a little bit. It certainly is, but you know, if people questioned if Elle Brook belonged in there with Paige Van Zandt before, they're not questioning it anymore. I mean, the level of experience differential here is unbelievable, and she's hanging in there, toe to toe. The more aggressive power punches are coming from Brook. Got Chan on his butt again. And big-time stuff from Elle Brook. She may have nicked that round, too. I think Yulia Poko wants a crack. Well, she already had a crack. Let her go, let her go. Punch out, let her go. These women are doing themselves proud. Quick little right hand on the inside from Elle Brook. Under a minute to go here in the fourth. Smothering combinations and pressure from Paige right now. Great combinations from her, touching her. She just can't miss. I'd like to see Paige sit down on those punches a little bit more, though. It's only 26 years old. Imagine if she sticks with this sport. How good she'll be in two or three years. There was a huge uppercut just landed there from Paige Van Zandt. Elle Brook took it well. You're starting to see some blood running down the nose of her. Very close fights here. Stop holding, stop holding. I mean, Paige really needs these next two rounds if she's going to win this fight. Who do you have winning this round? I have Paige winning this round right now. Yeah, absolutely. I got Paige winning two and four, but Elle winning one with a knockdown and three minutes left in what has been one of the best fights we've ever seen on Misfits. The veteran of UFC and bare knuckle Paige Van Zandt was expected to walk right through Brook. Instead, it was Brook's right hand that went right through Van Zandt's jaw in round one and dropped her. And now it all comes down to this. Paige's corner yelling at her, how bad do you want this? They know that she absolutely does not have this guaranteed. No, they've got one clean shot on each other this round so far. I mean, if Todd's scoring is right, even if Paige were to win this, it would be a draw. Yes, but you never know. The judges are not thinking the same things we're thinking necessarily. I don't know what they're thinking most of the time. You want to leave it all out there in this round and go for it. But the volume is all Paige. But damage trumps volume. Every time Elle Brooke has connected, just like that, it's hurt her. Fitness, she certainly is doing herself proud. And what a warrior Paige is as well. I mean, the stamina, the fitness, the cardio is all there. Elle might be tiring a little bit. You see the composure really showing for Paige Van Zandt right now. Good left hand on the inside for Van Zandt. She needs this round. Usually experience begins to shine even brighter in the late rounds. And that's what appears to be the case here for Paige. We have less than, oh, we have 25 seconds left of this fight. It's been absolutely phenomenal. Is there going to be one final statement from either fighter? There's a red shirt. Oh, my goodness. Those short uppercuts as well. Slow damage, but the volume, she's scoring on those. Does Elle have a final answer back? There we go. What a battle, ladies and gentlemen. Judge Joseph Rodriguez. Scores the bout 47 to 47. This is a split draw. Oh, my God. You can see it coming. The makings for an amazing trilogy. No, honestly, I said it would be a tough fight. The whole camp, I knew how tough she was. I took the fight for a reason. I was excited. I've watched her past fights. I knew it'd be tough. It is what it is. It sets up the perfect rematch. Obviously, you just said you want the rematch. Do you see yourself here in Misfits long term? Yeah, I signed a multi-fight contract for a reason. So, yeah, it looks like we're going to do it one more time. I think in Dubai, it sounds like. Well, I think that everybody would look forward to that. Elle, obviously, you retain the title in a draw as the champ. Do you think you did enough for the draw tonight? I mean, it's one of those things you have to rewatch it because in there, you're getting hit, but you're also hitting. So it's like, I don't think I'm experienced enough to think, yeah, I'm 100% winning this. But with the knockdown, I could see me winning it, but I have to watch it back. And I was just saying to Paige, like, wow, we get a big money rematch. Like, this is perfect.