PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mario Brothers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andre Kaland (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Brothers's entrance music is Eye of the Tiger. A fine choice. Andre Kaland has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Mario Brothers's chin.

Brothers
vs
Kaland

222 cm
20
295 lbs
5 - 6 - 1

198 cm
24
280 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

Good wrestler
Basic striking
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Mario Brothers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Andre Kaland!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Brothers will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

Kaland drives through with a takedown into guard.
Kaland thows a big elbow that misses.
Kaland postures up in Brothers's guard and throws a big left but Brothers blocks it.
Brothers is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Kaland trying to control from the bottom.
Brothers perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Brothers trying to control from half guard but Kaland is working away.
Brothers is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.

Mario Brothers has forced the referee to step in and bring the fight back to the feet.
Brothers has a takedown stuffed.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Brothers has managed to clinch.
Brothers is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Kaland pulls him back up using the underhooks.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Mario Brothers. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Kaland gets double underhooks and manages to take the fight to the ground.
Kaland lands a couple of digs.
Brothers manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Brothers pushing the pace here, looking to move to his opponents back and work for a finish.
Kaland is trying to escape the mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Brothers wants to control the pace but Kaland is squirming around nicely.
Brothers unloads with some shots from mount but Kaland bucks and avoids them well.
Kaland wants to hold on but Brothers pushes him away.
Brothers thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Brothers fails to move to back control.
Kaland is squirming around, avoiding Brothers's attempts to control the action.

Brothers is working close to his opponent, looking to work a submission by the looks of things. Oh, he's managed to get a guillotine from mount as his opponent reached up! That looks tiiiiight! Will he tap? YES, he's tapped! Impressive submission by Brothers!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Mario Brothers!