PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jonny Victorio (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Keijo Richards (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Victorio's entrance music is Massive Attack - Angel. A fine choice. Richards is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Victorio
vs
Richards

193 cm
26
266 lbs
18 - 5 - 0

210 cm
28
280 lbs
15 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Gilop®
Perkele!

Perkele!

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 18 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Jonny Victorio!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Keijo Richards!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Tarja Halkonen and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Richards swings widly with a right hand
and Victorio counters with a head kick.
Victorio shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Richards eats them both and turns towards Victorio to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Victorio works Richards's body with a nice hook.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Richards displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Victorio throws out the jab.
Richards throws a low kick, looking for Victorio's leg but Victorio calmly moves out of range.
Richards with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Victorio on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Victorio tries a head kick but it misses.
Victorio throws out a loose jab but Richards uses good head movement to avoid it.
Victorio swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Richards throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Victorio.
Victorio is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Richards.
Victorio fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Richards lunges at Victorio with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Victorio's hand.

It looks like Jonny Victorio has been cut.
Richards throws out a powerful jab.
Victorio uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Richards.
Victorio misses with a double jab.
A telegraphed right hand from Richards misses the target.
Victorio throws a shot from downtown. Richards moves away and avoids it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Richards takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Victorio connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Victorio cracks Richards with a nasty uppercut that draws ooohs from the crowd and sends Richards tumbling backwards onto the mat. He tries to recover but Victorio pounces and lands a hail of unanswered strikes that forces the referee to step in to end the fight! Richards is not happy but he gave the referee no choice!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jonny Victorio!
Jonny Victorio retains his heavyweight title!
Jonny Victorio made sure to mention his sponsor, Perkele! in his post fight interview.