PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Graeme Souness (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shunsuke Yamamoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shunsuke Yamamoto struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 206.1lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Shunsuke Yamamoto is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Souness
vs
Yamamoto

188 cm
22
213 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

194 cm
24
223 lbs
7 - 7 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Graeme Souness!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 7 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Shunsuke Yamamoto!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yamamoto throws a left and a right that both miss
and Souness connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Yamamoto moves away from the strike by Souness.
Souness uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Yamamoto.

Souness drops Yamamoto with a beautiful combination! Yamamoto stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Souness is looking for the KO!

Yamamoto is rocked!
Souness fails in his attempt to clinch.
Yamamoto is still on wobbly legs! Can Souness finish him?
Yamamoto showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Souness.
Yamamoto misses with a double jab
and Souness counters with a right hand from hell and Yamamoto is out cold! A vicious knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Graeme Souness!