PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ibushi Kota (ranked 5073 p4p, 2972 weight class) and Lottovoittaja Silvennoinen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kota's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Just Close Your Eyes. Lottovoittaja Silvennoinen has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Ibushi Kota's chin.

Kota
vs
Silvennoinen

183 cm
24
200
2 - 1 - 0

195 cm
23
220
4 - 5 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent elbows
Hates pizza

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ibushi Kota!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 1, fighting out of London, Lottovoittaja Silvennoinen!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Yuuki Gou and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silvennoinen smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Kota looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Silvennoinen is fending him off so far but Kota persists. Nope, Silvennoinen circles away and we're back to standing.
Kota doesn't manage to clinch there - Silvennoinen circles away.
Silvennoinen lands a nice looking body shot.
Silvennoinen digs a good body shot into Kota's ribs.

Silvennoinen instigates a clinch.
Silvennoinen works on Kota's body with a couple of short punches.

Kota breaks from the clinch.
Kota moves to clinch but Silvennoinen breaks away

and Silvennoinen counters with a nice right hand that sends Kota toppling to the canvas! Kota scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Silvennoinen finish him?!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Kota closes the distance but Silvennoinen moves to the side
and Silvennoinen counters with a big right hand! Oh Kota is in trouble here! Silvennoinen follows up with more strikes and that's it! The ref has stopped it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lottovoittaja Silvennoinen!