PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dmitry Breznev (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michael Helling (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Breznev's entrance music is Mother Russia. A fine choice. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Breznev
vs
Helling

200 cm
26
278 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

211 cm
27
265 lbs
6 - 6 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Dmitry Breznev!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Michael Helling!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Roosa Järviläinen and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Breznev moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
A solid leg kick lands there for Breznev.
Good work by Breznev as he checks the leg kick.
Helling swings for the body but Breznev moves out of range.
Breznev throws a nice inside leg kick.
Helling takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
Breznev scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Helling avoids the body shot from Breznev.
Breznev connects with a good right hand that stumbles Helling. Helling circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Helling tries to bum rush Breznev with a series of wild strikes but Breznev uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Breznev stuns Helling with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
A punch combination from Helling misses.
Breznev chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Breznev lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Helling blocks a head kick by Breznev.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Breznev changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Helling tries to avoid it but Breznev manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Helling to the ground. Helling escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Helling misses with a two punch combination.
Breznev fails to land with a series of punches.
Helling blocks the body kick.
Michael Helling is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Breznev slips a straight right by Helling.
Breznev throws a low kick but it's checked well by Helling.
Helling looks to land a right hand but Breznev moved out of range.
Helling blocks a low kick nicely.
Breznev throws a leg kick but Helling sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Helling throws a leg kick but Breznev sees it coming and moves out of range.
Helling looks to score with a jab to the body but Breznev is just out of range.
Helling is looking to chop away at Breznev's legs.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Helling misses with a wild combination.
Helling avoids the head kick by Breznev.
Helling bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Breznev's head backwards.
Breznev goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Breznev connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Breznev throws a quick inside leg kick.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Helling throws an overhand right that lands on Breznev's shoulder, as Breznev tries to avoid the shot.
Helling swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Helling swinging wildly here.
Breznev throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A good leg kick by Breznev.
Helling throws a leg kick that misses.
Breznev misses with a body kick.
Breznev keeps Helling at a distance using the push kick.
Helling looks gassed!
A punch combination from Helling misses.
Breznev lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Helling's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Helling throws a looping overhand right but Breznev ducks down to avoid it.
Breznev delivers a nice body kick.
Breznev throws a sloppy head kick and Helling moves out of range easily.
Helling doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Breznev lands a nice shot to the body.
Breznev shoots in and drives through. Helling sprawls well.
Breznev tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Helling throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Breznev connects with the punch.
Breznev chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Helling throws a leg kick
and Breznev counters with a straight right hand.
Helling misses the body punch
and Breznev counters with a big head kick but Helling shrugs it off.
Breznev lands with a good body shot.
Breznev keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Decent striking displayed by Helling there.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Breznev lands with a slapping head kick.
A solid leg kick lands there for Breznev.
Breznev avoids a punch combination nicely.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dmitry Breznev dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Helling takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
An inside leg kick lands from Breznev.
Helling fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Helling throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Breznev looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Helling throws a looping overhand right but Breznev ducks down to avoid it.
A good leg kick by Breznev.
Helling stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Breznev.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Breznev goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Dmitry Breznev is winning the standup battle so far.
A head kick from Breznev lands but Helling takes it in his stride.
Breznev scores with a nice head shot.
Breznev lands a body shot.
Helling is breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Breznev scores with a hook to the body. Helling takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Breznev pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Danga de danga de dang - Breznev scores with a four punch combination!
Breznev jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Breznev is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Helling can do to turn this around?
A solid leg kick lands there for Breznev.
Breznev bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Helling's head.
Breznev is looking to wear down Helling with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Breznev cracks the inside of Helling's front leg.
Crunch! Breznev slams his shin into Helling's torso.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Breznev lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Breznev lands with a thumping leg kick.
Helling takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Helling on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Breznev. Breznev obviously looking to wear him down.
Breznev keeps Helling at a distance using the push kick.
Breznev throws a shot to the body.
No joy there for Breznev, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Breznev connects with a high kick.
Breznev thumps Helling with a low kick.
Michael Helling is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Breznev connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Helling's hands.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Helling might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Breznev has got the better of the exchanges.
Breznev chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Helling takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Breznev scores with a kick to the midsection.
Nice body kick there by Breznev.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Breznev is looking to slow Helling down with leg kicks.
Helling has developed a nice purple lump on his ribcage, as a result of some heavy body kicks from Breznev.
Breznev scores with a jab to the body.
Breznev throws a leg kick which misses Helling's front leg but catches the back leg as Helling tries to avoid it.
Breznev fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Helling walks forward, straight into a front kick from Breznev.
Helling has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Helling there as he acknowledges the shot.
Helling takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Breznev scores with a punch to the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Breznev clinches up with Helling and pushes him back against the cage.
Breznev lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Breznev controlling the action here for a moment.
Breznev works on Helling's body with a couple of short punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Breznev trying to land knees to the body.
Nice elbow from Breznev.

It looks like Michael Helling has been cut.
Breznev tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Helling wants to get back to striking at distance but Breznev won't allow it.
Breznev lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Breznev is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.

Breznev escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Breznev cracks Helling with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Breznev throws a nice inside leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dmitry Breznev dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Michael Helling's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!

Helling falls off balance throwing a combination
and Breznev counters with a nice body shot.
Breznev clobbers Helling with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Breznev misses the shot to the body.
Helling throws a chopping leg kick but Breznev manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
Some wild striking there from Helling.
Breznev lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Breznev throws a nice inside leg kick.
Helling throws a series of punches but Breznev avoids them all with ease.
Helling throws a right and a left that both miss.
Breznev lands with a nice body kick.
Helling takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Helling ducks right into an uppercut from Breznev.
Helling takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Breznev lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Breznev rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Helling moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Breznev delivers a nice body kick.
Breznev scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Breznev connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Breznev lands a glancing blow to the side of Helling's head.
Breznev cracks Helling with a good jab.
Helling takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Breznev lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
Breznev wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Helling blocks a head kick by Breznev.
Breznev lands a front kick.
Crunch! Breznev slams his shin into Helling's torso.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Breznev.

Breznev shoots in with a lovely double leg takedown. Helling manages to land in full guard to minimise the damage.
Breznev sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Helling's guard.
Breznev takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Breznev stands up from half guard... He's had enough of that ground malarky for the time being.
Helling chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Breznev can pounce on him.
Breznev showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Helling.
Breznev lands a nice looking kick to the body. Helling takes a step back to recover.
Breznev bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Breznev jabs Helling to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Helling misses the jab.
A chopping leg kick lands by Breznev.
Dmitry Breznev is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Breznev feints and then cracks Helling's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Helling down.
Breznev scores with a hook to the body. Helling takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Breznev misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Helling just misses with a punch to the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Helling avoids the head kick by Breznev.
Breznev with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Breznev's corner calls for a 1-2. Breznev obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Breznev fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Helling has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Helling throws a low kick but it's checked well by Breznev.
Breznev dives in and grabs Helling's left leg, looking for a takedown. Helling pushes down on Breznev's head and hops out.
Michael Helling has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
A bone on bone clash there as Breznev blocks the leg kick.

And that's the end of the fight!
Dmitry Breznev showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Breznev has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Johanna Lukiainen scores the fight 30:26
Judge Roosa Järviläinen scores the fight 30:26
Judge Ben Zyskovitsi scores the fight 30:26

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Dmitry Breznev!