PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Takeshi Miike (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kendall Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Miike
vs
Alves

162 cm
27
141 lbs
16 - 4 - 0

182 cm
33
148 lbs
26 - 19 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Red Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Takeshi Miike!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 26 - 19 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kendall Alves!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alves jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Alves throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Miike stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Alves lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.

Miike fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Alves to the ground. Miike is now in Alves's guard.
Miike would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Alves is adopting a defensive guard.

Alves has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Miike can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.

Miike gets to his feet - Alves follows without any prompting.
Miike takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Alves lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Miike throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Alves counters with a right hand to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Alves gets caught napping as Miike dives in and scores a takedown. Alves manages to retain guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Alves controls Miike momentarily but Miike frees himself.
Miike is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.

Alves working for a triangle but Miike defends it easily.
Miike trying to stand up but can't free himself from Alves's guard.
Miike trying to control but Alves is working from the bottom.
Alves is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.
Miike trying to stand up but can't free himself from Alves's guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Alves has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Miike doesn't defend quickly enough and Alves has managed to lock this one up! Can Miike escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Alves on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Kendall Alves!
Kendall Alves looked relieved post fight as he said the following; 'Kendal Alves jiu jutsu at Saboteur's Playground! Thanks for watching.'.