PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ruubens Cartnell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pekka Karma (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Karma's choice of entrance music: Pekka paukuttaa ja naiset itkee.. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Cartnell
vs
Karma

188 cm
25
205 lbs
1 - 5 - 0

177 cm
25
210 lbs
1 - 6 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ruubens Cartnell!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Pekka Karma!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Karma throws a leg kick that misses.
Cartnell tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Cartnell uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Karma has time to react.
Karma lands a jab to Cartnell's midsection.
Cartnell connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.

Cartnell darts in and clinches Karma up against the ropes.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Cartnell lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Karma backwards.
Karma blocks a body shot from Cartnell.
Karma throws a head punch that misses.
A body shot lands from Cartnell.
Cartnell tries to pull guard but Karma forces him back to his feet, against the ropes.
Cartnell lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Cartnell blocking some punches.

Cartnell pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Cartnell lunges at Karma with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Karma's hand.
Karma looks gassed!
Cartnell lands a nice hook to Karma's body. Karma takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Cartnell thows a body shot but no joy.
Cartnell lands the left hand.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Karma takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Cartnell cracks Karma with a big right hand that sees him stumbling back against the ropes! Karma falls to his knees and Cartnell doesn't need a second invitatation - he rushes in and fires off several unanswered shots that force the referee to stop the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ruubens Cartnell!
Ruubens Cartnell thanked the fans post fight for their support.