PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between El Condor Ruiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Katsu Yamamoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ruiz comes to the cage accompanied by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrHfxW4XOg. Katsu Yamamoto is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Condor Ruiz
vs
Yamamoto

181 cm
21
135 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

163 cm
22
143 lbs
6 - 7 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, El Condor Ruiz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 7 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Katsu Yamamoto!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yamamoto tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Ruiz looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Yamamoto connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
A punch combination from Yamamoto misses.
Yamamoto buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.

Yamamoto lands a left and a right that send Ruiz crashing to the mat, dazed. Yamamoto thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Ruiz is rocked!

It looks like El Condor Ruiz has been cut.
Ruiz really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!

Yamamoto gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Oh Ruiz is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Yamamoto taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
A right hand to the body from Yamamoto.
Ruiz seems to have got his legs back now.

Yamamoto pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Ruiz looks up at the clock. Bad move! Yamamoto lands a right hand from hell, dropping Ruiz. Yamamoto pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Katsu Yamamoto!