PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sponge SquarePants (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and kristoff pollinski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). kristoff pollinski looks lathargic as he enters the arena. Wake up son, you're about to have a fight!

SquarePants
vs
pollinski

187 cm
19
215 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

225 cm
22
205 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin

Golden supplements

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Sponge SquarePants!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, kristoff pollinski!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Roosa Järviläinen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
SquarePants fails in his attempt to clinch.

SquarePants scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
SquarePants throws a strike but pollinski avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
pollinski working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from SquarePants.
pollinski is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
SquarePants sitting in guard, not really doing much.
SquarePants postures up.
SquarePants throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as pollinski works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
SquarePants throws and elbow that misses. pollinski uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in SquarePants's guard. Nice move by pollinski!
pollinski wants to get up but he can't break SquarePants's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
pollinski stopping the sweep attempt from SquarePants.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.
SquarePants swats away the attempt to clinch by pollinski.

SquarePants closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming pollinski to the mat! pollinski manages to get full guard.
SquarePants trying to control the position from guard on top but pollinski is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
SquarePants thows a big elbow that misses.
SquarePants throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
pollinski is looking to stand up but SquarePants isn't so interested in that idea.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
SquarePants seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up.
SquarePants working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of pollinski's head.
SquarePants missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

pollinski is looking for a triangle but SquarePants pushes his legs off easily.
pollinski looks gassed!
SquarePants postures up.
SquarePants passes easily into side control. Nice work.
SquarePants working the body and head with strikes.
SquarePants 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.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
pollinski tries to get back to half guard but can't.
You can see the frustration on pollinski's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
pollinski taking a bit of punishment here - SquarePants scoring with strikes.
SquarePants lands a nice forearm strike.
SquarePants is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
SquarePants creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
SquarePants lands some shots froms side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
SquarePants working the body and head with strikes.
SquarePants scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh pollinski is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and SquarePants can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Sponge SquarePants!