PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Gigi Ceausu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Armas Ruutana (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ruutana comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Ennio Morricone - Man With A Harmonica kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ceausu
vs
Ruutana

175 cm
31
142 lbs
15 - 4 - 0

174 cm
29
156 lbs
17 - 17 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Powerful

KAISER

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 15 - 4 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Gigi Ceausu!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Armas Ruutana!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, Andrew Berry and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ceausu blocks the body kick.
Ruutana scores with a nice body kick.
Ceausu throws a lazy right hand but Ruutana sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.

Ceausu feints and as Ruutana raises his hands in defense, Ceausu changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Ruutana avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Ruutana is pulling down on Ceausu's head. It's preventing any offense from Ceausu, at least for the moment.
Ruutana looking to hit a scissor sweep but Ceausu is one step ahead there.
Ruutana lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Ceausu!
Ceausu avoids a series of strikes thrown by Ruutana.
Ruutana throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Ruutana thowing shots but they're missing.
Ruutana punching from mount but Ceausu doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ceausu tries to hold on but Ruutana postures up.
Ruutana has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Ruutana trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Ruutana avoids the attempt from Ceausu to control.
Ruutana pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Ruutana thowing shots but they're missing.
Ceausu is trying to escape the mount.
Ruutana lands with some strikes.
Ceausu blocking the ground and pound.
Ruutana postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Ceausu bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Ruutana and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Armas Ruutana!
Armas Ruutana is the new featherweight champion!
A relieved looking Armas Ruutana thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.