PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Aki Sirkesalo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ken Hansen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fingers crossed for an exciting fight - I'm sure both fighters are looking for a nice under the table bonus!

Sirkesalo
vs
Hansen

165 cm
19
151 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

172 cm
21
155 lbs
5 - 0 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Prefers standup

Powerful takedowns
Good kicks
Powerful

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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Aki Sirkesalo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Ken Hansen!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Yuuki Gou and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sirkesalo lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Hansen circles away quickly and effectively.
Hansen connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Left hook, right uppercut from Sirkesalo.
Sirkesalo scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Hansen throws a body punch but Sirkesalo moves out of range.
Sirkesalo takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.

Hansen has taken the fight to the clinch.
Hansen lands a body punch in the clinch.
Hansen presses Sirkesalo against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Good body shot from Hansen.
Hansen just leaning against Sirkesalo, taking a breather.

Hansen decides to pull guard.
Hansen looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Hansen looking to control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sirkesalo trying to control the position from guard on top but Hansen is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Hansen controls Sirkesalo momentarily but Sirkesalo frees himself.
Sirkesalo is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Hansen thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Hansen tried to score with a low kick but Sirkesalo checks it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Nice body kick there by Hansen.
Sirkesalo throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Sirkesalo chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Hansen can pounce on him.

Hansen scores a takedown into full mount!
A nice elbow there by Hansen.
Hansen fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Hansen throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Hansen thowing shots but they're missing.
Hansen looking to finish with strikes here!
Sirkesalo tries to get back to half guard but can't.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hansen throws a sloppy strike and Sirkesalo uses the opportunity to reverse the position! A bit of a scramble here and Sirkesalo has ended up in Hansen's guard.

Hansen looking to try and escape his hips here, looking for a submission. It looks like he's going for a triangle but Sirkesalo is defending well. Hansen quickly switches to an armbar and extends the arm! Sirkesalo has no choice but to tap, to a very quick submission! Wow, that was lightning fast! Hansen celebrates on the cage, with the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ken Hansen!