PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Martin Zaromskis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ansel Adams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Zaromskis
vs
Adams

183 cm
18
183 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
176 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
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 Helsinki, Martin Zaromskis!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ansel Adams!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Arvi Lind and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch up but Adams swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Zaromskis lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Adams fails with an attempt to clinch.
Zaromskis is looking to clinch.
Ansel Adams seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Zaromskis throws a quick inside leg kick.
Zaromskis fails in his attempt to clinch.
Adams throws a jab when Zaromskis was well out of range.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Zaromskis lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Adams has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Adams and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Adams misses the shot to the body.
Zaromskis fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Adams.
Zaromskis looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Adams looks gassed!
Zaromskis tries to clinch up but Adams circles away and keeps his distance.
Zaromskis dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Adams. That did some damage!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Zaromskis dodges the punch combination from Adams.
A good leg kick by Zaromskis.
Zaromskis doesn't manage to clinch there - Adams circles away.
Zaromskis moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.

Zaromskis rushes Adams and presses him up against the cage.

Zaromskis manages to break the clinch.
A combination from Zaromskis does no damage.
Zaromskis lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Adams backs up against the cage.

It looks like Ansel Adams has been cut.
Zaromskis doesn't manage to clinch there - Adams circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zaromskis thows a left - swing and a miss!
Zaromskis throws a nice inside leg kick.
Adams on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Zaromskis. Zaromskis obviously looking to wear him down.
Martin Zaromskis is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Zaromskis lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Zaromskis is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Adams's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Zaromskis tries to clinch up.
Zaromskis lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Zaromskis wants to clinch up but Adams keeps it at a distance.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Zaromskis lands a damaging elbow.
Zaromskis lands an elbow inside.
Zaromskis leaning his opponent against the cage.
Zaromskis comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Zaromskis misses with an elbow strike.
Adams is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Zaromskis gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Adams swats away the attempt to clinch by Zaromskis.
Zaromskis throws a quick inside leg kick.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Adams avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Zaromskis buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Zaromskis connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Zaromskis fails in his attempt to clinch.
Adams stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Zaromskis.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Adams paws at him with a jab and circles away.

Zaromskis forces Adams back against the cage and clinches.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Zaromskis throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Adams takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.

Zaromskis closes the distance and clinches.
Zaromskis lands an elbow that stopped Adams in his tracks for a moment.
Adams has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Adams avoiding damage as Zaromskis throws knees to the body.
Adams blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Zaromskis misses with an elbow strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zaromskis tries to land knees in the clinch but Adams avoids the damage to the body.
Zaromskis lands an elbow inside.

Zaromskis pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Adams blocks a head kick by Zaromskis.
Adams avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Zaromskis instigates a clinch.
Adams avoiding damage as Zaromskis throws knees to the body.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Adams swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Zaromskis counters with a low kick, right behind Adams 's knee.

Zaromskis takes the fight into the clinch.
Zaromskis tries to land knees in the clinch but Adams avoids the damage to the body.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Zaromskis rushes Adams and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Adams tries for a takedown but Zaromskis manages to get underhooks.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch.
Zaromskis connects with a solid leg kick.
Zaromskis lands a nice shot that snaps Adams's head back.
Zaromskis lands with a thumping leg kick.
Zaromskis lands with a thumping leg kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Adams avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Adams slips under a jab from Zaromskis.
Zaromskis blocks a jab.
Zaromskis wants to clinch.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch but Adams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
A chopping leg kick lands by Zaromskis.
Zaromskis chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Adams circles away from the clinch attempt.
Zaromskis fails with an attempt to clinch.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Zaromskis.
Adams circles away from the clinch attempt.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Zaromskis is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Zaromskis looks to land a left hand but Adams moved out of range nicely.
Adams swinging wilding here.

Zaromskis clinches with his opponent.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Martin Zaromskis dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ansel Adams's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Zaromskis throws a sloppy head kick and Adams moves out of range easily.
Zaromskis connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Zaromskis wants to clinch up but Adams keeps it at a distance.
Zaromskis wants to clinch.
No joy there for Adams, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Martin Zaromskis is winning the standup battle so far.
Zaromskis looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Zaromskis tries to bum rush Adams with a series of wild strikes but Adams uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Zaromskis moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Zaromskis with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Zaromskis scoring well with a low kick there.
Zaromskis moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Zaromskis throws a nice outside leg kick.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Adams steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Zaromskis. That one must have hurt.
Zaromskis is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Adams can do to turn this around?
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Adams paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Zaromskis throws a head kick that half lands.
Nice takedown defense from Zaromskis. No joy for Adams on that attempt.
Nice body kick from Zaromskis.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Adams takes a kick to the side of the head.
Ansel Adams is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Zaromskis connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Adams misses with a looping right.
Adams swats away the attempt to clinch by Zaromskis.
Good leg kick by Zaromskis there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Zaromskis tries to clinch but Adams moves out of range.
Zaromskis blocks a head kick by Adams.
Zaromskis turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Zaromskis lands a head kick. Adams smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
Adams keeps the fight on the outside.
Adams avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Zaromskis gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Zaromskis is pushing Adams up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Zaromskis.
Adams tries to break the clinch but Zaromskis is controlling the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zaromskis tries to land knees in the clinch but Adams avoids the damage to the body.
Adams takes an elbow to the temple.
Zaromskis misses with an elbow over the top.
Zaromskis is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
With the fighters up against the cage, Zaromskis throws an elbow but misses.
Adams wants to break the clinch but can't.
Adams has had enough of the clinch but Zaromskis keeps him there for the moment.
Zaromskis slowing the pace effectively.
Adams is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch.

Zaromskis instigates a clinch.
Adams tries to circle away but Zaromskis has him pinned against the cage.
Zaromskis lands an elbow inside that Adams shrugs off.
Zaromskis tries to land a knee to the head but Adams blocks with his arms.
Zaromskis lands an elbow inside.
Zaromskis prevents Adams from breaking the clinch.
Adams blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zaromskis throws a knee to the head but misses.
Zaromskis pushes off an throws an elbow but Adams leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.

Adams's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Zaromskis wants to clinch.
A big left from Zaromskis misses.
Zaromskis thumps Adams with a low kick.
Zaromskis throws a leg kick which misses Adams's front leg but catches the back leg as Adams tries to avoid it.
A good leg kick by Zaromskis.
Adams swings for the body but Zaromskis moves out of range.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Adams tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Zaromskis lands a damaging elbow.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Zaromskis takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Zaromskis seems to have come into the fight with the intention of avoiding any damage in the clinch, rather than actually showing any aggression.
Zaromskis looking to slow down the pace here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Adams has had enough of the clinch but Zaromskis keeps him there for the moment.
Zaromskis is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Adams thows a left - swing and a miss!
Zaromskis connects with a high kick.
Zaromskis lands a nice leg kick that just misses Adams's sensitive parts.
Zaromskis throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
A head kick by Adams misses
and Zaromskis counters with a nice leg kick.
Zaromskis throws a low kick, looking for Adams's leg but Adams calmly moves out of range.
A combination from Adams does no damage.
Adams looks to land a combination but Zaromskis avoids it well.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch but Adams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Zaromskis scoring well with a low kick there.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Zaromskis, right into the meat.
Adams chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Zaromskis can pounce on him.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Martin Zaromskis dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Ansel Adams's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! And we move into the final round!

Zaromskis lands with a thumping leg kick.
Adams misses with a jab, cross combination.
Zaromskis buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Zaromskis tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Zaromskis looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Zaromskis stuffs the takedown attempt from Adams. Adams gets slowly back to his feet.
An inside leg kick lands from Zaromskis.
Zaromskis tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Zaromskis fails in his attempt to clinch.
Zaromskis is really struggling to find his range with his punches. Zaromskis's reach advantage is clearly causing him problems.
Adams throws a body punch but Zaromskis moves out of range.

Zaromskis closes the distance and pushes Adams back into the cage.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch but Adams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Zaromskis doesn't manage to clinch there - Adams circles away.
Zaromskis fails with an attempt to clinch.

Zaromskis clinches up with Adams and pushes him back against the cage.
Zaromskis with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Zaromskis is trying to maintain a safe position but Adams gets an underhook and turns Zaromskis into the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zaromskis misses with an elbow strike.
With the fighters up against the cage, Zaromskis throws an elbow but misses.
Zaromskis misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Adams.
Adams blocks an elbow strike from Zaromskis.

Adams manages to break the clinch.
A big left from Adams misses.
Adams throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Adams changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Zaromskis tries to avoid it but Adams manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Zaromskis to the ground. Zaromskis escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Zaromskis misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Adams misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

Zaromskis closes the distance and clinches.
Adams avoiding damage as Zaromskis throws knees to the body.
Adams keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Zaromskis's efforts to push away.
Zaromskis keeps control of Adams as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Zaromskis misses with an elbow over the top.
Adams is looking to break free of the clinch but Zaromskis has double underhooks.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Adams throws a looping overhand right but Zaromskis ducks down to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Adams fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Adams takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Zaromskis cracks the inside of Adams's front leg.
Zaromskis wants to clinch up but Adams keeps it at a distance.

Adams tries to keep at a distance but Zaromskis has taken the fight into the clinch.
Zaromskis just leaning against Adams, taking a breather.
Zaromskis tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Adams avoids it.
Zaromskis throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Zaromskis prevents Adams from breaking the clinch.
Zaromskis misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Adams.
Zaromskis lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Zaromskis tries to stall but Adams uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Adams throws a knee to the head but misses.
Adams has had enough of the clinch but Zaromskis keeps him there for the moment.
Zaromskis is trying to stall.
Adams is looking to break free of the clinch but Zaromskis has double underhooks.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Zaromskis just misses with a elbow thrown towards Adams's brow.
Adams blocks an elbow strike from Zaromskis.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Zaromskis.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Adams tries to break the clinch but Zaromskis is controlling the position.

Zaromskis manages to break the clinch.
Adams takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Good leg kick by Zaromskis there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Adams fails with the takedown

and Zaromskis counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Martin Zaromskis has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ansel Adams.

Zaromskis manages to break the clinch.
Adams swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch but Adams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Martin Zaromskis is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Adams avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
A chopping leg kick lands by Zaromskis.
Zaromskis scores with a jab.
Zaromskis throws a leg kick which misses Adams's front leg but catches the back leg as Adams tries to avoid it.
A nice inside leg kick there by Zaromskis. That's going to slow Adams down.

Zaromskis rushes Adams and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Zaromskis connects with a solid leg kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Zaromskis closes the distance and clinches.
Adams wants to break free but Zaromskis has control.
Zaromskis slows down the pace here.
Adams is trying to break the clinch but Zaromskis is controlling him.

Zaromskis breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Zaromskis tries to close the distance and clinch up but Adams swats him away and circles back towards the center.
The fight stays on the outside here - Zaromskis looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Zaromskis lands a nice leg kick that just misses Adams's sensitive parts.

Zaromskis closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Ansel Adams has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Adams tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Adams tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Zaromskis tries to land a knee to the head but Adams blocks with his arms.

And that's the end of the fight!
Martin Zaromskis showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Zaromskis has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Tarja Halkonen scores the fight for Martin Zaromskis!
Judge Arvi Lind scores the fight for Martin Zaromskis!
Judge Marco Blurström scores the fight for Martin Zaromskis!

Martin Zaromskis wins by unanimous decision!