PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kukka Multa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Drottinn Hrothgar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Multa's entrance music is Pain - Monkey Business. A fine choice. Hrothgar has chosen The Howling Fjord as his entrance music. Drottinn Hrothgar will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Multa
vs
Hrothgar

164 cm
24
154 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

220 cm
23
156 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

Dangerous GnP
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Win Nutritional - proof of quality
UCF Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Kukka Multa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Drottinn Hrothgar!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Paul Tew and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hrothgar with a hook.
Hrothgar misses with the combination.
Multa ducks under a wild hook from Hrothgar.
Hrothgar is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Some wild striking there from Hrothgar.
Hrothgar throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Multa shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Hrothgar's guard.
Multa with a flurry of punches that miss.
Multa content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Multa stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Hrothgar swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Multa is standing up over Hrothgar. Hrothgar looks to escape but Multa dives into side control.
Multa works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Multa looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Hrothgar is avoiding damage well.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hrothgar is trying to buck Multa off.
Multa creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Hrothgar is looking to regain half guard here but Multa keeps moving and retains side control.
Multa looks up at the clock and then as Hrothgar takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Multa smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Hrothgar takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Multa working the head and body with strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Multa throws an elbow but Hrothgar slips to the side and avoids it well.
Sloppy strikes there by Multa.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hrothgar wants to control but Multa postures up.
Multa misses with the ground and pound.
Multa working the ground and pound.
Multa working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Hrothgar takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Hrothgar has one of Multa's arms on lockdown, trying to prevent him from doing any damage.
Multa in side control lands a decent elbow.
Hrothgar managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Multa.
Multa works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Multa landing strikes.
Hrothgar is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Multa throwing strikes but Hrothgar manages to buck up and roll into a nice reversal - now he's on top in side control!
Multa is trying to control Hrothgar's posture but Hrothgar avoids it.
Multa tries to bench press Hrothgar off him but Hrothgar keeps the position.
Hrothgar is looking to take a break and control but Multa is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Multa is looking for a sweep.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Hrothgar working away.
Multa manages to get back to half guard.
Multa might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Multa makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Multa.
Multa is controlling Hrothgar's posture.
Multa is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Multa has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Multa being controlled here, momentarily.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kukka Multa dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Multa has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Multa there as he acknowledges the shot.
Hrothgar pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Multa moves away from the strike by Hrothgar.

Multa scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Multa tries to advance to mount but Hrothgar denies him.
Multa scores with punches from side control.
Hrothgar parries the strikes from Multa easily there. Multa is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Hrothgar to escape.
Multa advances to mount.
Hrothgar squirming around on the bottom, looking to escape.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Multa has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Hrothgar's face.

Multa jumps to the side looking to secure the arm triangle…. Ooooh, that looks tight… Hrothgar is gargling but he's managed to escape! Nice work there by Hrothgar and Multa has given up the dominant position trying to land that submission.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Hrothgar taking a bit of punishment here - Multa scoring with strikes.
Multa landing a few strikes.
Multa tries to advance to mount but can't.
Multa in side control, throwing shots but Hrothgar defends.
An elbow from Multa crashes against the mat.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Multa is trying to ground and pound but Hrothgar uses the momentary lack of control by Multa to regain half guard.
Hrothgar is trying to maintain the position but Multa is very close to passing his half guard.

Multa is looking for a kimura here.
Multa stops Hrothgar from getting back to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Multa is thwarting Hrothgar's attempts to control the position.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Hrothgar throws a hook to the side of Multa's head but Multa sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Hrothgar looks to land a right hand but Multa moved out of range.
Multa throws the left hand but Hrothgar avoids the punch easily.
The fight stays on the outside here - Hrothgar looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Multa drives through with a takedown into guard.
Multa in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Multa advances position into side control!
Multa tries to move to mount but Hrothgar blocks the move with his legs.
Multa working away.
Kukka Multa overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Multa throwing shots but missing, from side control.
The strikes coming from Multa are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
Hrothgar takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Hrothgar is looking to reverse the position.
Hrothgar is looking to get back to his feet here but Multa is keeping cool and he's managed to take Hrothgar's back.
Hrothgar is breathing heavily.
Multa doesn't have the hooks in and Hrothgar manages to turn into his guard.
Multa has control of Hrothgar's left arm, preventing Hrothgar from doing any damage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kukka Multa dominated that second round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. This is the final round!

Multa displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Hrothgar throws out the jab.
Hrothgar fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Hrothgar throws a series of punches but Multa avoids them all with ease.
A nice combination there by Hrothgar.
Drottinn Hrothgar is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Hrothgar misses the shot to the body.
Hrothgar is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Hrothgar waving his hands out infront of him, looking to distract Multa.
Hrothgar swings for the body but Multa moves out of range.
Multa takes a swing at Hrothgar's ribcage but misses.
Multa showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Hrothgar.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hrothgar misses with a hook. Multa ducked under it nicely.

Multa closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Multa lands in his opponent's guard.
Multa forces his way into half guard.
Hrothgar takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Multa sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Hrothgar defending well though.
Multa is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Multa in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Multa lands with some strikes.

Hrothgar is rocked!
A nice elbow there by Multa.
Hrothgar is still in real trouble! Can Multa finish him?
Multa raining down shots from the mount!
Multa working Hrothgar over with strikes here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Multa working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Multa raining down shots from the mount!
Hrothgar in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Multa scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Hrothgar?
Multa with good strikes from the mount here!
Multa fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Multa is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Multa is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Hrothgar can't stay in a position like this for much longer.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Multa postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Hrothgar looks a forlorn figure.
Multa connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Multa looking to finish Hrothgar with some ground and pound. This is bad for Hrothgar!
Multa lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Hrothgar hang on?
Multa drops a big elbow. That's hurt Hrothgar! More shots from Multa and the ref steps in! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kukka Multa!