PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Santino Marella (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shigenori Iwasaki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Iwasaki has chosen Roll & Tumble as his entrance music. Shigenori Iwasaki has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Santino Marella's chin.

Marella
vs
Iwasaki

180 cm
18
181 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

182 cm
20
170 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Santino Marella!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Shigenori Iwasaki!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Iwasaki tries to clinch but Marella is having none of it.
Marella throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Iwasaki tries to clinch up.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Iwasaki. Marella shrugs it off though.
Marella misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Iwasaki keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Iwasaki is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
A combination from Marella does no damage.
Iwasaki tries to clinch there but Marella circles away.
Iwasaki throws a leg kick which misses Marella's front leg but catches the back leg as Marella tries to avoid it.
Iwasaki wants to clinch up but Marella keeps it at a distance.
Iwasaki wants to clinch up but Marella keeps it at a distance.
Marella lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Iwasaki tries to clinch but Marella moves out of range.
A cross from Marella lands.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Iwasaki wants to clinch up but Marella keeps it at a distance.
Marella avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Marella will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Iwasaki is looking to clinch.
A head kick from Iwasaki lands but Marella takes it in his stride.
Iwasaki wants to clinch up but Marella keeps it at a distance.
Marella swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Marella fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Iwasaki looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Marella has closed the distance and engaged Iwasaki in a clinch.
A looping hook to the body misses from Iwasaki. Marella does a little dance to reset his feet.
Iwasaki avoids the body shot from Marella.
Marella misses with a straight right.
Marella misses with a series of wild punches.
Marella blocks a head kick by Iwasaki.
Marella throws a jab but it's blocked by Iwasaki.
Iwasaki connects with a solid leg kick.
Iwasaki closes the distance but Marella moves to the side

and Marella counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Marella.
Iwasaki jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Marella walks away with a smile on his face. Iwasaki gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Iwasaki blocks a jab.
Iwasaki scores with a leg kick.

Iwasaki clinches up with Marella and pushes him back against the ropes.
Iwasaki tries to pull guard but Marella holds him up against the ropes and eventually Iwasaki drops back down to his feet.
Iwasaki misses with a body punch.
Iwasaki doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Marella avoiding damage as Iwasaki throws knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Iwasaki tries to pull guard but Marella holds him up against the ropes and eventually Iwasaki drops back down to his feet.
Santino Marella has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Shigenori Iwasaki.
Marella wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Iwasaki misses with a punch to the body.
Marella has had enough of the clinch but Iwasaki keeps him there for the moment.
Iwasaki tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Marella wants to get back to striking at distance but Iwasaki won't allow it.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Marella as Iwasaki tries to tie him up.
Iwasaki goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Marella wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Iwasaki has him pressed against the ropes.
Iwasaki tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Marella just stands there and leans against the ropes.
Iwasaki tries a body shot but Marella blocks it.
Marella blocks an elbow strike.
Iwasaki misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Iwasaki creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Iwasaki jumps guard but Marella stands there with Iwasaki around his waist. Iwasaki gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Iwasaki keeps control of Marella as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Iwasaki wants to stall.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Iwasaki misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Marella.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Iwasaki can't get the takedown.
Iwasaki keeps control of Marella as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Iwasaki jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Marella walks away with a smile on his face. Iwasaki gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Iwasaki tries to close the distance and clinch up against the ropes but Marella paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Marella throws a series of punches but Iwasaki moves out of range.
Marella avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Iwasaki lands a nice leg kick that just misses Marella's sensitive parts.
Marella fails to land with a series of punches.
Iwasaki tries to close the distance and clinch up but Marella swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Iwasaki showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Marella.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Iwasaki defending well as Marella loads up on a big left hand.
Marella circles away from the clinch attempt.

Marella gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Iwasaki missing with knees to the body.
Iwasaki tries to pull guard but Marella holds him up against the ropes and eventually Iwasaki drops back down to his feet.
Iwasaki misses with a punch to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Iwasaki with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Marella blocking some punches.
Iwasaki fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Marella is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes.
Marella tries to break the clinch but Iwasaki is controlling the position.
Iwasaki fails to pull guard.

Marella breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Marella sizes up Iwasaki with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Marella misses with a few strikes there.

Marella moves into range and clinches up with Iwasaki.
Marella managing to block the knees to the body from Iwasaki.
Iwasaki struggles to land a body shot inside as Marella controls his hands.
Iwasaki fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Iwasaki tries a body shot but Marella blocks it.
Iwasaki looks gassed!
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Iwasaki fails to pull guard.
Iwasaki tries to throw a body punch but Marella avoids it by throwing Iwasaki back against the cage.
Marella gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Iwasaki.

Marella pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Santino Marella dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Marella thuds a left hand into Iwasaki's body.
Marella misses with a jab, cross combination.
Iwasaki tries to clinch there but Marella circles away.
Iwasaki dodges the punch combination from Marella.
Marella looks to land a combination but Iwasaki avoids it well.
Iwasaki fakes the leg kick and cracks Marella in the body.
Iwasaki is looking to clinch but Marella is avoiding it.
Iwasaki fails with an attempt to clinch.
Marella fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Iwasaki on the side of the head.
Marella avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Iwasaki looks to clinch
and Marella counters with a nice uppercut.
Iwasaki tries to clinch up.
Marella lands with a big left! Iwasaki is wobbled badly! Marella comes in with a flurry of punches and drops Iwasaki to the floor. The ref jumps in to save him from unneccessary punishment.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Santino Marella!