PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Johnathon Vander (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arthur Jackson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jackson is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGUsXPUSmvk&feature=related. This should be fireworks!

Vander
vs
Jackson

187 cm
25
180 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

176 cm
18
181 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Self confident

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Intelligent

New Age Warriors

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Johnathon Vander!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Arthur Jackson!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Marco Blurström and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Jackson closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Jackson working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Vander taking punishment in the form of punches.
Jackson creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Vander sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.

Jackson looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Vander is looking to work his way out of this bad position but Jackson is controlling him well.
Jackson throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Jackson has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Vander knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Jackson on the ground.
Vander is not a happy chappy… he wants out of there.
Jackson lands a big elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jackson sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Jackson throws some wild stikes that Vander manages to avoid easily.
Vander is trying to get back to his feet but can't.
Jackson sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Jackson punching from mount but Vander doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Jackson lands a big elbow.
Jackson looking to finish with strikes here!
Vander is trying to stand up.
Jackson has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Jackson is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Oooooh, big shot lands for Jackson! Vander is hurt baaadly! Jackson is firing away with more strikes - Vander is covering up... the ref is warning him to do something. He's just covering up though still and the ref has to step in to end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:05 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Arthur Jackson!