PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Casper Duelly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ossi Poro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Duelly comes to the cage accompanied by Its A Fight . These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Duelly
vs
Poro

180 cm
20
186 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

185 cm
21
182 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Casper Duelly!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ossi Poro!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Aleksandr Martynov and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Poro wants to clinch.
Duelly circles away from the clinch attempt.
Poro throws a leg kick but Duelly sees it coming and checks it nicely.

Duelly tries to keep at a distance but Poro has taken the fight into the clinch.
Poro tries to land a knee to the head but Duelly blocks with his arms.
Poro landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.

Poro escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Duelly fails with a takedown attempt.
Poro does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Poro shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Duelly as he jumps to the side.
Left hook, right uppercut from Duelly.
Duelly throws a combination. Poro tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Poro tries to clinch but Duelly is having none of it.
Poro throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Duelly closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Duelly rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Poro moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Ossi Poro seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Poro tries to clinch but Duelly is having none of it.
Poro throws a quick inside leg kick.
Duelly stalks Poro and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Poro's face. Poro staggers backwards, shaken.
Poro slips a jab and a cross from Duelly.
Duelly moves out of range of the body kick.
Duelly fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Duelly checks the leg kick.
Duelly misses with a few strikes there.
Duelly swinging wilding here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Duelly throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Duelly swinging wilding here.
Poro tries to clinch but Duelly moves out of range.
Poro dodges the punch combination from Duelly.
Poro avoids a punch combination nicely.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Poro pivots, looking for a leg kick but Duelly is out of range and Poro settles back down.
Duelly misses with a head kick.
Poro tries to clinch but Duelly is having none of it.
Poro looks gassed!
Duelly will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Poro doesn't manage to clinch there - Duelly circles away.

Duelly feints and as Poro raises his hands in defense, Duelly changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Poro wants to sweep here but Duelly controlling him for the moment.
Duelly has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Poro is proving hard to escape from.
Poro looking to hit a scissor sweep but Duelly is one step ahead there.
Duelly trying to control the position from guard on top but Poro is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Poro bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Duelly's guard.

Poro postures up as if he's going to throw some strikes but drops back for an ankle! Duelly is in big trouble! He looks ready to tap! But no, he's escaped and dives on top of Poro, into his guard.
Duelly is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Poro looking for a sweep. Not yet Poro, not yet.
Poro is trying to control the position but Duelly postures up.
Poro tries to land a sweep but no joy.

Poro looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Duelly passes into side control.
Poro can't do much from the bottom here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Poro gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Duelly postures up and decides to stand up, from the half guard. The ref calls for Poro to stand up.
Duelly takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Duelly stuffs the takedown attempt from Poro. Poro gets slowly back to his feet.
Duelly circles away from the clinch attempt.
Duelly stuffs the takedown attempt from Poro. Poro gets slowly back to his feet.
Casper Duelly has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ossi Poro.
Poro has a takedown stuffed.
Duelly throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Duelly swats away the attempt to clinch by Poro.

Duelly darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Duelly wants to stand up but Poro is controlling the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Duelly stops Poro from getting back to his feet.

Duelly stands, ready to strike. The ref makes him back up and allows Poro to get to his feet.
Poro moves in looking to clinch but Duelly pushes him off.
Duelly stuffs the takedown attempt from Poro. Poro gets slowly back to his feet.
Poro looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Duelly is fending him off so far but Poro persists. Nope, Duelly circles away and we're back to standing.
Poro is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Duelly misses with a takedown attempt - Poro sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Poro shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Duelly but Duelly pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Poro throws a low kick but Duelly avoids it.
Duelly misses with a jab, cross combination.
Duelly throws a right hand that Poro ducks under and follows up with a left that Poro also avoids with ease.
Poro wants to clinch.
Poro lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Poro throws a series of punches but Duelly avoids them all with ease.
Duelly misses with the combination.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Casper Duelly dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Poro scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Duelly pulls out of a head kick attempt.
A left and a right from Duelly both land. Nice combination.
A nice combination there by Duelly.
Poro fails in his attempt to clinch.
Duelly checks a low kick from Poro.
A combination from Poro does no damage.
The fight stays on the outside here - Poro looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Duelly throws a right and a left that Poro avoids nicely.
Duelly tries to bum rush Poro with a series of wild strikes but Poro uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Duelly fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Duelly misses with a few strikes there.
Casper Duelly is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Duelly misses with a double jab.
Duelly scores with a leg kick.
Duelly will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Poro scoring well with a low kick there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Poro throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Poro dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Duelly. That did some damage!
Duelly swats away the attempt to clinch by Poro.

Duelly forces Poro back against the cage and clinches.

Duelly escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Poro is breathing heavily.
Duelly throws a nice looking combination but Poro bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Poro looks to clinch
and Duelly counters with a left and a right that stings Poro.
Some wild striking there from Duelly.
A left and a right from Duelly both land. Nice combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Duelly throws a right and a left that both miss.
Duelly misses with a jab, cross combination.
Duelly is working the combinations to good effect here.
Duelly lands a jab-cross combination.
Duelly's corner calls for a 1-2. Duelly obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Poro looks for a takedown but Duelly sprawls well.
Duelly looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Poro closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Duelly throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.

Duelly drives through with a takedown into guard.
Poro working a defensive guard here.

Poro has managed to work for a loose triangle. I think Duelly should be able to defend this one pretty easily though. Oh, Poro has tightened it up now! Duelly should have reacted faster there - he's in big trouble and yes, he's tapped out! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:47 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Ossi Poro!