PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Coco Trippaaja (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ryan Martinsson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Martinsson has chosen Queen - Another One Bites The Dust as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Trippaaja
vs
Martinsson

175 cm
23
195 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

203 cm
20
206 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
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 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Coco Trippaaja!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ryan Martinsson!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Johanna Lukiainen and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Trippaaja dives in and grabs Martinsson's left leg, looking for a takedown. Martinsson pushes down on Trippaaja's head and hops out.
Martinsson stuffs the takedown.
Trippaaja shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Martinsson but Martinsson pushes him off and we're back to square one.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Coco Trippaaja. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Martinsson looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Trippaaja!
Martinsson is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Trippaaja really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Martinsson with shots to the head and body - Trippaaja looks very uncomfortable down there.
Martinsson has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Trippaaja's face.
Martinsson cracks Trippaaja with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Martinsson with good strikes from the mount here!

Trippaaja is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Martinsson tries to control but Trippaaja wriggling away.
Trippaaja taking shots to the head.
Oh Trippaaja is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Trippaaja might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Martinsson controlling his opponent.
Trippaaja seems to have got his legs back now.
Trippaaja is trying desperately to improve position.
Trippaaja is breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee warns Trippaaja that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.

Martinsson wants to finish this one by submission but Trippaaja is holding onto his waist, trying to prevent any attacks from Martinsson.
Martinsson trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Martinsson lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Trippaaja takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Martinsson landing shots from mount.
Martinsson scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Martinsson lands with some strikes.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A big strike lands for Martinsson! That's really hurt Trippaaja and he's turned his back - Martinsson keeps firing away and the ref dives in to stop the fight! Martinsson Jumps to his feet to celebrate the victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ryan Martinsson!