PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Hanamichi Sakuragi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason Jaso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Jaso's choice of entrance music: Hall of Fame. Jason Jaso has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Sakuragi
vs
Jaso

200 cm
26
170 lbs
4 - 17 - 0

185 cm
24
178 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Torment Fightwear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Hanamichi Sakuragi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jason Jaso!
The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sakuragi closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Jaso did well to prevent Sakuragi getting side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Jaso is trying to maintain the position but Sakuragi is very close to passing his half guard.
Jaso is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Sakuragi scores with a couple of nice shots.
Sakuragi thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Jaso keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Sakuragi trying to control the action but Jaso is working from the bottom.
Sakuragi looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Jaso with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Sakuragi throwing shots but Jaso is blocking nicely.
Sakuragi is nestled in close to Jaso, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Sakuragi will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sakuragi missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Sakuragi throws a big elbow that misses, also allowing Jaso to regain full guard.
Jaso utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Sakuragi has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Jaso wants to sweep here but Sakuragi controlling him for the moment.
Jaso working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Sakuragi.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakuragi postures up.
Sakuragi cracks Jaso with a solid left hand.
Sakuragi postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Sakuragi won't allow Jaso to sweep him here.
Sakuragi throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Sakuragi is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Sakuragi postures up and lands a big shot to Jaso's brow.

Sakuragi stands up and waves to Jaso to follow him.

Jaso gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sakuragi postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Sakuragi postures up.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi throwing strikes but missing.
Sakuragi throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Sakuragi scoring with some ground and pound.
Sakuragi postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Sakuragi is looking to work some ground and pound but Jaso has wrist control.
Sakuragi working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Jaso's head.
Jaso looks gassed!
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Sakuragi accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Sakuragi is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Sakuragi connects with a couple of short punches.
Jaso avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Sakuragi makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Sakuragi postures up and lands a big shot to Jaso's brow.
Sakuragi showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Sakuragi throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Jaso works some decent striking defense from the bottom.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Sakuragi is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Sakuragi landing with the ground and pound.
Sakuragi makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Sakuragi working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Sakuragi chips away with some ground and pound.
Jaso utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Sakuragi scoring with punches to the head and body.
Sakuragi is in close to Jaso's body, working some short punches and elbows.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jaso is trying to control the position but Sakuragi postures up.
Sakuragi in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Sakuragi throws a big right hand that misses.
Sakuragi stands up over Jaso, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Sakuragi lands a couple of elbows.
Sakuragi advances to half guard.
Sakuragi is nestled in close to Jaso, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Sakuragi looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Jaso with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Sakuragi is nestled in close to Jaso, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Sakuragi takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Sakuragi sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Jaso defending well though.
Sakuragi winds up and cracks Jaso with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sakuragi takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Jaso avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Sakuragi.
Sakuragi lands strikes from half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hanamichi Sakuragi dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Sakuragi throws the overhand right but ducks down into a quick takedown attempt. Jaso was covering up waiting for the punch and Sakuragi finishes the takedown easily into guard.
Sakuragi working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Jaso avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Sakuragi throws a big elbow that misses.
Sakuragi with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Jaso avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Jaso controls Sakuragi momentarily but Sakuragi frees himself.
Sakuragi is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Jaso can do to turn this around?
Sakuragi working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Sakuragi scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Sakuragi is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Jaso is breathing heavily.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Jaso keeping moving, preventing Sakuragi from controlling successfully.
Sakuragi throws an elbow that misses. Jaso uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Sakuragi's guard. Nice move by Jaso!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakuragi will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Sakuragi throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Sakuragi throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Jaso slips nicely into half guard, despite the strikes coming from Sakuragi.
Sakuragi is refusing to be controlled, as Jaso sits in half guard.
Sakuragi landing small, sideways elbows.
Jaso trying to control the action but Sakuragi is working from the bottom.
Sakuragi punching from the bottom.
Sakuragi flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Sakuragi punching from the bottom.
Sakuragi striking from half guard on the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Sakuragi wants to get back to full guard.
Hanamichi Sakuragi overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Jaso blocks the strikes from Sakuragi.
Sakuragi flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Jaso blocks the strikes from Sakuragi.
Sakuragi punching from the bottom.
Sakuragi is on the bottom, trying to hold on to half guard. He's throwing a few small shots here, to keep his opponent honest.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Jaso blocks the strikes from Sakuragi.
Sakuragi is trying to get back to full guard.
Sakuragi flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Sakuragi striking from the bottom.
Sakuragi knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Jaso on the ground.
Jaso seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Sakuragi does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Sakuragi is looking to improve his position.
Sakuragi trying to get back to full guard but Jaso takes advantage of the position and moves to full mount!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi is flailing around like a fish out of water, trying to land strikes.
Sakuragi is mounted but he's throwing punches.
Sakuragi on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Sakuragi tries to get out of the position.
Sakuragi flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Sakuragi swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Sakuragi really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Sakuragi is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Sakuragi is working hard here to advance position.
Sakuragi flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Sakuragi throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Sakuragi is flailing around like a fish out of water, trying to land strikes.
Sakuragi swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Sakuragi flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sakuragi is trying to escape the mount.
Sakuragi flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Sakuragi throwing hammer fists to the chest of Jaso. What's that going to do exactly?
Sakuragi tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Jaso blocks Sakuragi's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Sakuragi regains half guard.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Sakuragi connecting with a few gentle strikes.
Sakuragi is looking to get full guard. It looks like he might be successful but at the last minute Jaso jumps into side control!
Sakuragi throwing some weak shots from the bottom that do no damage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Jaso avoids the strikes from the bottom by Sakuragi.
Sakuragi throws a couple of punches but he's in a bad position and they don't land.

Jaso wants to work for a kimura but he's foiled early by Sakuragi, who protects the arm well.
Sakuragi is looking for a sweep.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hanamichi Sakuragi dominated that second round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!

Sakuragi shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Jaso but Jaso pushes him off and we're back to square one.

Sakuragi closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Jaso did well to prevent Sakuragi getting side control.
Sakuragi throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Jaso is trying to maintain the position but Sakuragi is very close to passing his half guard.
Sakuragi is trying to control. Jaso wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Sakuragi lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Sakuragi working over Jaso with some ground and pound. Jaso looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Sakuragi scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Jaso pushes Sakuragi off looking to stand but Sakuragi dives back in and keeps control.
Jaso takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Sakuragi working over Jaso with some ground and pound. Jaso looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakuragi lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Sakuragi thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Jaso's head.
Jaso blocking the ground and pound attempt from Sakuragi.
Jaso is not content to let Sakuragi control the position.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Sakuragi missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Sakuragi lands with a punch from half guard.
Jaso taking some punishment here, with Sakuragi in his half guard.
Sakuragi lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Sakuragi connects with a nice short shot to Jaso's temple.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Jaso keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Sakuragi scoring with strikes to the body and head.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Sakuragi connects with a nice short shot to Jaso's temple.
Nice strikes from Sakuragi there.
Sakuragi wants to control but Jaso is keeping him busy.
Sakuragi missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Sakuragi working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Sakuragi looks to score some points with some ground and pound.

Jaso is rocked!
Sakuragi is sitting in half guard. He's postured up and lands a nice elbow. Oh, Jaso is hurt! He's hurt bad - Sakuragi fires away with more strikes and the referee jumps in to save Jaso from any more punishment! Congratulations to Sakuragi! Great finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hanamichi Sakuragi!