PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Noah King (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jurgen Lythjohan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). King's entrance music is Killing in the name. A fine choice. Lythjohan comes into a darkened arena with his song building. The Worm by Audioslave kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Jurgen Lythjohan told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

King
vs
Lythjohan

170 cm
22
159 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

178 cm
18
162 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Noah King!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jurgen Lythjohan!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
King throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

King shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Lythjohan keeping full guard, as King tries to pass.

Lythjohan throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Lythjohan bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in King's guard.
Lythjohan trying to control the position from guard on top but King is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
King looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

King escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Lythjohan gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Lythjohan throwing strikes but missing.

King had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Lythjohan is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. King Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Lythjohan's back instead.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Lythjohan is displaying good submission defense - not really looking in danger of submitting to the rear naked choke at the moment. That could change in an instant of course if King gets his way!

King working for the choke.
King is breathing heavily.
King doesn't have the hooks in and Lythjohan manages to turn into his guard.
Lythjohan wants to stand and escape but instead King has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Lythjohan is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.

King postures up as if he's going to throw some strikes but drops back for an ankle! Lythjohan is in big trouble! He looks ready to tap! But no, he's escaped and dives on top of King, into his guard.
Lythjohan trying to control but King is working from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lythjohan wants to get up but he can't break King's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.
Lythjohan lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Lythjohan forces his way into half guard.
King is looking to improve his position.

Lythjohan is trying for a guillotine from the top but the pressure isn't in the right place so King is just riding it out for now. Lythjohan eventually gives up the hold.
King tries to get to full guard but Lythjohan has control of the leg.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lythjohan is stalling here. King is in no mood to hang around though. He's locked up a kimura from the bottom! Lythjohan seems to be keeping calm but he's forced to roll out of the hold and King has ended up in side control on the top. Nice work.

King wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Lythjohan, who protects the arm well.
Lythjohan tries to get back to half guard but can't.
King moves into full mount!
Lythjohan working to try and regain half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
King cracks Lythjohan with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

King is in full mount, looking to secure a guillotine but Lythjohan is surviving well by controlling King's body position as best he can.

King jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but Lythjohan manages to avoid the submission attempt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
King cracks Lythjohan with an elbow. That is naaassty.

King thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

King thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.

King working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
King tries to move into full mount but can't pass Lythjohan's legs.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Noah King dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

No luck for King with that takedown attempt.
King fails with the takedown.
King shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Noah King. That's going to take a lot out of him.
King checks a leg kick nicely.
King throws a sloppy head kick and Lythjohan moves out of range easily.
Lythjohan throws a low kick, looking for King's leg but King calmly moves out of range.
Lythjohan lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Lythjohan rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but King moves out of range and avoids them all easily.

King scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Lythjohan has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. King is working away from the top position though.

King seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Lythjohan is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:01 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Noah King!
Noah King is the new lightweight champion!