PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jonny Saint (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vitor Gustav (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Gustav's choice of entrance music: D12 Fight Music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Saint
vs
Gustav

198 cm
23
246 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

187 cm
24
225 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jonny Saint!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Vitor Gustav!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Tarja Halkonen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Saint avoids a punch combination nicely.
Saint scores with a sloppy right hand. Gustav should have avoided that one.
Saint lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Gustav will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Saint cracks Gustav with a big right hand that sends him crashing to the floor. Saint has the opportunity to follow him to the ground but instead he's beckoning Gustav to stand back up!
Gustav dodges the punch combination from Saint.
Saint misses with a head kick.
Saint pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Gustav misses with a wild combination.
Gustav misses with a head kick.
Gustav displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Saint throws out the jab.
Gustav tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Saint was well out of range. Poor timing from Gustav.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Saint rushes Gustav with punches - Gustav moves straight backwards instead of circling and gets clipped by the second strike... and the third... and the fourth! Oh, Gustav goes down! Saint follows up with more strikes and the ref steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jonny Saint!