PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Grizzly Copenhagen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yoda Master (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Copenhagen comes to the cage accompanied by Faint by Linkin Park. Grizzly Copenhagen has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Copenhagen
vs
Master

175 cm
28
181 lbs
12 - 4 - 0

190 cm
18
177 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good knees
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Grizzly Copenhagen!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Yoda Master!
The judges for this bout are Paul Aken, Paulsen Ambrosius and Nard Betker.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Copenhagen gets the takedown into side control.
Copenhagen misses with the ground and pound.
Master defending against the ground and pound.
Copenhagen is chipping away with strikes.
Master is trying to improve his position.
Copenhagen scores with punches from side control.
Copenhagen creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Copenhagen lands a decent elbow from side control.
Copenhagen connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused Master some visible discomfort.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Copenhagen in side control lands a decent elbow.

Master is rocked!
Copenhagen misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Copenhagen looks up at the clock and then as Master takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Copenhagen smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
A lull in the action here.
Copenhagen working the head and body with strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Copenhagen wants to control but Master is keeping him busy.
Copenhagen cracks Master with a big elbow.
Copenhagen lands an elbow.
Copenhagen scoring with punches from side control.
Copenhagen scoring with punches from side control.
Master throws a couple of strikes even though he's not really in a good position to do so.
Copenhagen working the head and body with strikes.
Copenhagen is working Master over with some ground and pound from side control.
Master tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
Copenhagen lands a few punches from side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Copenhagen is working Master over with some ground and pound from side control.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Master on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Copenhagen scores with punches from side control.
Master is still in real trouble! Can Copenhagen finish him?
Copenhagen working the head with strikes.
Master seems a little lost for a moment, as Copenhagen dominates the positioning.
Master seems to have recovered his senses.
Master gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Copenhagen is pressing down on Master's thigh, looking to free his foot. Master is holding on for now.

Copenhagen postures up and decides to stand up, from the half guard. The ref calls for Master to stand up.
Master gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Copenhagen counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Copenhagen working Master over with strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Copenhagen throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.

Master has guillotine here! It looks pretty tight! Could this be all over! No, Copenhagen escapes and passes into side control at the same time. Nice work there by Copenhagen!
Master looks gassed!
Copenhagen cracks Master with a big elbow.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Copenhagen cracks Master with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Copenhagen has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Master!
Copenhagen cracks Master with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Copenhagen fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Copenhagen raining down shots from the mount!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Copenhagen landing strikes, looking to finish!
Master takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Copenhagen scoring with strikes but Master is staying in there.
Master takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! Copenhagen's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Grizzly Copenhagen!
Grizzly Copenhagen retains his welterweight title!