PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matti Parkkonen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricky Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Love has chosen welcome to the jungle as his entrance music. Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Parkkonen
vs
Love

195 cm
22
270 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

216 cm
18
295 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Prefers ground

Dangerous GnP
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Matti Parkkonen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ricky Love!
The judges for this bout are Stewart Dunkirk, Cecil Peabody and Wesley Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Parkkonen misses with a few strikes there.
Parkkonen fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Love tries for a takedown but Parkkonen sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Parkkonen stuffs the takedown.
Love misses with a takedown attempt - Parkkonen sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Matti Parkkonen has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ricky Love.
Parkkonen throws a right hand that Love ducks under and follows up with a left that Love also avoids with ease.
Love throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Parkkonen's waist but Parkkonen gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Love off to one side.
Parkkonen fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Parkkonen throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Love gets the takedown into side control.
The strikes coming from Love are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Parkkonen takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Parkkonen tries to bench press Love off him but Love keeps the position.
Love scoring with punches and elbows.
Love looks gassed!
Parkkonen is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Parkkonen regains half guard.
Parkkonen is trying to get back to full guard.
Love working the head and body with strikes.
Love is pressing down on Parkkonen's thigh, looking to free his foot. Parkkonen is holding on for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Parkkonen is looking to improve his position.
Love working over Parkkonen with some ground and pound. Parkkonen looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Parkkonen slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Parkkonen looking for a sweep. Not yet Parkkonen, not yet.
Love working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Parkkonen bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Love's guard.
Parkkonen lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Parkkonen knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Love on the ground.
Love manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Love dominating with strikes here.
Love raining down shots from the mount!
Love prevents Parkkonen from getting the reversal.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love with good strikes from the mount here!
Love working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Parkkonen regains half guard.
Parkkonen wants to get back to full guard.
Love lands with a punch from half guard.
Parkkonen tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
Parkkonen is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Parkkonen slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Parkkonen utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.
Parkkonen digs a good body shot into Love's ribs.

Parkkonen closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Parkkonen lands in his opponent's guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Parkkonen might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Love is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Love manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Love dominating with strikes here.
Love raining down shots from the mount!
Love in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Love with the ground and pound from mount.
Love landing shots from mount.
Love in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

Parkkonen is rocked!
Parkkonen tries to reverse the position but Love maintains control.
Oh Parkkonen is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Love fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Parkkonen on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Parkkonen tries to get out of the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love lands a big elbow.
Love connects with a bit shot that sees Parkkonen covering up! More strikes from Parkkonen and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Love is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricky Love!