PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Devin Kurant (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jack Vulgar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kurant has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Devin Kurant has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Kurant
vs
Vulgar

206 cm
18
255 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

193 cm
23
257 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
Basic striking
Solid chin

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Devin Kurant!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jack Vulgar!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Vulgar closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Kurant looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Kurant seems a little lost for a moment, as Vulgar dominates the positioning.
Vulgar working the ground and pound.
Vulgar moves into full mount!
Vulgar controlling from mount.
Vulgar pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Vulgar tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Vulgar has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Let's hope that Vulgar has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

That's one minute gone in the round.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Jack Vulgar was stalling too much, according to the referee.

Vulgar closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Kurant did well to prevent Vulgar getting side control.
Vulgar slips a nice elbow through Kurant's hands, connecting with Kurant's forehead.
Vulgar passes to side control.
Vulgar lands an elbow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vulgar is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Kurant will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.
Vulgar advances nicely into full mount.
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!
Vulgar controlling from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vulgar is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Vulgar punishing his opponent with strikes.
Kurant is bucking up trying to escape but Vulgar cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Vulgar in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Vulgar controlling from the full mount.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Vulgar cracks Kurant with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Vulgar controlling the pace for now.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Vulgar lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Vulgar controlling the pace for now.
Vulgar pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

It looks like Devin Kurant has been cut.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Vulgar landing shots from mount.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jack Vulgar dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Devin Kurant's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Vulgar scores a takedown into full mount!
Vulgar scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Kurant?
Vulgar controlling his opponent.
Vulgar landing strikes from the mount.
Kurant knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Vulgar on the ground.
Vulgar with the ground and pound from mount.

Kurant is rocked!

Devin Kurant's cut is getting worse.
Vulgar unloading with bombs!
Oh Kurant is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!

Devin Kurant's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Vulgar tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Vulgar looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Kurant covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jack Vulgar!