PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Filip Suligoj (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matheus Carvalho (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Carvalho has chosen Notorious BIG - Victory as his entrance music. Matheus Carvalho struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 206.0lbs 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. Matheus Carvalho told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

Suligoj
vs
Carvalho

180 cm
22
222 lbs
6 - 7 - 0

192 cm
27
222 lbs
9 - 8 - 1

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Good low kicks
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Filip Suligoj!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 8 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Matheus Carvalho!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Arvi Lind and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Suligoj tests Carvalho's chin there with a solid looking shot.

It looks like Matheus Carvalho has been cut.
Suligoj misses the shot to the body.
Suligoj looks to land a left hand but Carvalho moved out of range nicely.
Suligoj throws a looping overhand right but Carvalho ducks down to avoid it.
Suligoj fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Suligoj fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Suligoj connects with a body shot.
Carvalho takes a jab right on the kisser.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Suligoj misses with a double jab.
Carvalho moves out of range of the strikes.
Suligoj throws a sloppy head kick and Carvalho moves out of range easily.
Suligoj keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Suligoj throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Carvalho keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Suligoj.
Filip Suligoj seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Suligoj throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Suligoj drops Carvalho with a left and a right! Oh, Carvalho is hurt - Suligoj dives into side control looking to finish!

Carvalho is rocked!
The referee claps his hands together and tells the fighters to work.
Suligoj landing strikes.
Carvalho is still in real trouble! Can Suligoj finish him?
Suligoj throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Suligoj sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Carvalho is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Suligoj postures up a little and throws a couple of hammerfists but they don't connect properly.
Carvalho managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Suligoj.
Sloppy strikes there by Suligoj.
Suligoj working the ground and pound from side control.
Suligoj is breathing heavily.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Suligoj looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Carvalho is avoiding damage well.
Carvalho managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Suligoj.
Suligoj scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Carvalho is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Suligoj can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Filip Suligoj!