PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Yves St Louis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Heikki Parantainen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yves St Louis has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

St Louis
vs
Parantainen

188 cm
18
196 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
188 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Very confident

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Yves St Louis!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Heikki Parantainen!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Marco Blurström and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Parantainen throws a nice looking combination but St Louis bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Parantainen looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
St Louis misses with a jab, cross combination.
Parantainen doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
St Louis scores with a one two! Parantainen had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.

St Louis changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Parantainen looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.

St Louis tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no St Louis has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
St Louis in side control lands a decent elbow.

St Louis tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no St Louis has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
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!
St Louis is working Parantainen over with some ground and pound from side control.
St Louis is maintaining the dominant position - no doubt Parantainen will start to get frustrated soon if he's not already.

St Louis is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Parantainen knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
St Louis advances to full mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Parantainen is trying to escape but when you're mounted that's not too easy.
St Louis working Parantainen over with strikes here.

Parantainen is rocked!
St Louis pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Parantainen is still in real trouble! Can St Louis finish him?
St Louis has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
St Louis lands a big elbow - Parantainen is in trouble! More strikes from the mount and Parantainen is forced to tap out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Yves St Louis!