PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Christian Moore (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hitoshi Matsumoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Matsumoto has chosen Otep - Blood Pigs as his entrance music. Moore has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Christian Moore has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Moore
vs
Matsumoto

186 cm
18
148 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

170 cm
24
150 lbs
5 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Knockout power

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Christian Moore!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Hitoshi Matsumoto!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Shirou Masuda and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Matsumoto lands a right hook to the body.
Moore is breathing heavily.

Matsumoto moves into the clinch.

Matsumoto gets a trip takedown into half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Ground and pound from Matsumoto.
Matsumoto has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Matsumoto is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Matsumoto looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Matsumoto thows a huge punch but Moore dodges it nicely.
Matsumoto throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Matsumoto wants to take a breather but Moore is having none of it.
Matsumoto sitting and controlling from the half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Matsumoto missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Matsumoto trying to control from half guard but Moore is working away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Matsumoto lands strikes from half guard.
Matsumoto winds up and cracks Moore with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Matsumoto is trying to control. Moore wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Matsumoto controlling the action here.

OK we're going to have a standup here. Hitoshi Matsumoto hasn't been effective enough on the ground and the referee wants a restart.
Matsumoto throws the kick towards the body but Moore avoids it.

Matsumoto darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Matsumoto keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
Moore really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Matsumoto passes to side control.
Moore tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Matsumoto wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Matsumoto wants to control but Moore is keeping him busy.
Moore on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Moore tries to get out of the position.
Matsumoto scores with a couple of short elbows.
Moore takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Matsumoto scoring with punches and elbows.
Matsumoto working the ground and pound.

Matsumoto has an Americana. Moore didn't react quickly enough there and he's in big trouble now! He tries to squirm out but is forced to tap! Matsumoto is delighted and gyrates in front of the ring girls. They seem to like the attention - it'll be interesting to see if Matsumoto hooks up with any of them at the after show party.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Hitoshi Matsumoto!