PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kaarlo Vihtala (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jim Dangle (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vihtala's entrance music is Pohjois-Karjala. A fine choice. The fight MMA fans around the world have waited their entire lives for!

Vihtala
vs
Dangle

202 cm
26
286 lbs
13 - 7 - 0

194 cm
32
254 lbs
23 - 11 - 0

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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 13 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Kaarlo Vihtala!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jim Dangle!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Ben Zyskovitsi and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Vihtala connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Vihtala ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Dangle moves away.
Vihtala misses with a body kick.
Vihtala takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Vihtala throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Dangle throws a right and a left that Vihtala avoids nicely.
Vihtala blocks a jab.
Vihtala lands a nice leg kick that just misses Dangle's sensitive parts.
Vihtala throws a jab when Dangle was well out of range.
Vihtala moves into range and connects with a jab.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Dangle is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Vihtala looks for the body kick but Dangle saw that one coming.
Vihtala throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Dangle sees it coming and avoids it easily.

Vihtala forces Dangle back against the cage and clinches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vihtala tries to land knees in the clinch but Dangle avoids the damage to the body.
Vihtala dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Dangle tries to circle away but Vihtala has him pinned against the cage.
Dangle gets through Vihtala's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Vihtala misses with a hook to the ribs.
Vihtala avoiding damage.
Vihtala scores with a knee to the head.
Vihtala is stalling here.
Vihtala with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Jim Dangle has been cut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vihtala keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Dangle's efforts to push away.
Vihtala stalls.
Vihtala throws a head punch that misses.
Vihtala scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Vihtala just leaning against Dangle, taking a breather.
Vihtala misses with a knee strike.
Dangle is trying to maintain a safe position but Vihtala gets an underhook and turns Dangle into the cage.
A short right from Vihtala on the inside.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Vihtala.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Dangle displaying some good clinch control by pressing Vihtala up against the cage.
Vihtala misses with a knee to the head.
Vihtala dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Vihtala misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Vihtala tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Vihtala prevents a body shot from Dangle.
Vihtala is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Dangle is defending well for now.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Dangle has hold of one of Vihtala's legs. Vihtala is fighting the takedown attempt but Dangle gets the trip and lands the takedown into guard.
Dangle wants to control from the top but Vihtala keeps moving.
Dangle lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Dangle works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Dangle landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Dangle has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
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!
Dangle is trying to control the action in half guard but Vihtala is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Dangle is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
Vihtala wants to get back to full guard.
Vihtala gets back to full guard.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Vihtala keeping moving, preventing Dangle from controlling successfully.
Dangle throws a big elbow that misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kaarlo Vihtala dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Jim Dangle's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

A big right from Dangle misses.
Dangle cracks Vihtala with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Dangle takes a swing at Vihtala's ribcage but misses.
Vihtala checks a leg kick.
Vihtala throws a hook but Dangle blocks it.
Dangle looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Vihtala is fending him off so far but Dangle persists. Nope, Vihtala circles away and we're back to standing.
Dangle throws a big shot that misses.
Dangle takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Vihtala uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Dangle.
Vihtala tries to clinch there but Dangle circles away.
Dangle throws a hook but Vihtala avoids it easily.
A good leg kick by Vihtala.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vihtala throws a chopping leg kick but Dangle manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
A right-left combo lands from Dangle.
Vihtala is looking to clinch but Dangle is avoiding it.
Vihtala fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
A slapping body kick lands there for Vihtala.
Dangle is breathing heavily.
Vihtala misses with a hook. Dangle ducked under it nicely.
Dangle takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Vihtala stuns Dangle with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Vihtala listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Vihtala connects with a jab.
Vihtala is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Dangle walks into a stiff left hand from Vihtala.
Vihtala ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vihtala scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Kaarlo Vihtala is winning the standup battle so far.
Dangle takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Dangle throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Vihtala sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Nice takedown defense from Vihtala. No joy for Dangle on that attempt.
Nice body punch from Vihtala.
Vihtala lands with a slapping head kick.
Vihtala with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Vihtala throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
Vihtala keeps Dangle at a distance using the push kick.
Vihtala scores with a jab. Dangle acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Vihtala is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dangle avoids the head kick by Vihtala.
Vihtala lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Vihtala fails to land with a series of punches.
Vihtala is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Dangle can do to turn this around?
Dangle misses with a looping right.
Vihtala moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.

Vihtala closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Vihtala throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dangle blocks it with crossed arms.
Dangle is trying to break the clinch but Vihtala has him pressed against the cage.
Vihtala tries a body shot but Dangle blocks it.
Dangle has had enough of the clinch but Vihtala keeps him there for the moment.
Dangle trying to control the position but instead, Vihtala has worked for underhooks and has pushed Dangle into the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dangle misses with a hook from the clinch.
Dangle wants to break the clinch but can't.
Vihtala misses with the head strike.
Dangle managing to block the knees to the body from Vihtala.
A knee to the head by Vihtala.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Vihtala scores with a nice hook to the head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Vihtala avoiding damage.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Vihtala.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kaarlo Vihtala dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Jim Dangle's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!

Dangle with a jab.
Vihtala fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Vihtala moves out of range of the leg kick from Dangle.
Dangle throws a hook to the side of Vihtala's head but Vihtala sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Dangle swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Vihtala fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Donk. Vihtala catches Dangle right on the button with a cross.
Dangle has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Vihtala.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Dangle takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Vihtala will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Dangle takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Vihtala paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dangle blocks the body kick.

Vihtala clinches with his opponent.

Dangle gets a nice trip takedown into half guard.
Vihtala gets full guard.
Vihtala manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Vihtala prevents Dangle from getting the reversal.
Vihtala controlling the pace for now.
Dangle working to try and regain half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vihtala with shots to the head and body - Dangle looks very uncomfortable down there.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Dangle is working to get back to half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Vihtala tries to control but Dangle wriggling away.
Vihtala cracks Dangle with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Vihtala prevents Dangle from getting the reversal.
Vihtala wants to control the pace but Dangle is squirming around nicely.
Vihtala controlling the position easily from mount.
Kaarlo Vihtala overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dangle sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Dangle is trying to control but can't.
Jim Dangle has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

The ref stands the fighters back up. Kaarlo Vihtala wasn't doing enough on the ground.
Vihtala keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.

Vihtala takes the fight into the clinch.

Vihtala drops Dangle with a big knee straight up the middle! Dangle is covering up against the cage but manages to escape and gets back to his feet!

Dangle is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Vihtala ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Dangle is still on wobbly legs! Can Vihtala finish him?
Vihtala tries to clinch up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Vihtala throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Dangle throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Dangle takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Dangle seems to have recovered his senses.

Vihtala has closed the distance and engaged Dangle in a clinch.
Vihtala stops a takedown attempt from Dangle.
Vihtala landing knees to the head.
Vihtala content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Vihtala gets through Dangle's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Vihtala stalling against the cage.

Vihtala drops Dangle onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Dangle is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!

And that's the end of the fight!
Kaarlo Vihtala showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Vihtala 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 Marco Blurström scores the fight 30:27
Judge Ben Zyskovitsi scores the fight 30:27
Judge Anni Minnemäki scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Kaarlo Vihtala!
Kaarlo Vihtala thanked the fans post fight for their support.