PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Brad Cunningham (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joonas Kolstela (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Cunningham kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Disturbed - Conflict . Kolstela comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Here Comes The Boom kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Cunningham
vs
Kolstela

187 cm
21
197 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

193 cm
20
182 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
KO power

Decent wrestler
Excellent MT
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Brad Cunningham!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Joonas Kolstela!
The judges for this bout are Joseph Jones, Columbo Gatti and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kolstela moves out of range as Cunningham throws a body kick.
Kolstela dodges the punch combination from Cunningham.
Kolstela looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Cunningham throws a sloppy head kick and Kolstela moves out of range easily.
Kolstela keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Brad Cunningham seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kolstela lands a jab to the nose.
Cunningham throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Cunningham lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Kolstela circles away quickly and effectively.
Cunningham wants to clinch.
Cunningham throws a body kick the misses

and Kolstela counters with a crisp one two that drops Cunningham! Kolstela thinks about following him to the mat for a moment but instead steps back and waves Cunningham to his feet! Cunningham is in big trouble!

Cunningham is rocked!
Cunningham throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Kolstela counters with a nice body shot.
Oh Cunningham is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Cunningham is breathing heavily.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cunningham throws a lazy head kick
and Kolstela scores with a counter punch that sends Cunningham to the canvas! Kolstela smells blood - he's punishing Cunningham with more strikes and the ref has stopped it! Cunningham has no idea where he is - he's tackled the ref... oh dear, poor guy, the crowd is in hysterics!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Joonas Kolstela!