PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Tokyo Drift (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ryan Faulk (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Faulk has chosen Holy Diver-Dio as his entrance music. Ryan Faulk has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Drift
vs
Faulk

167 cm
28
148 lbs
4 - 7 - 0

169 cm
26
150 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Tokyo Drift!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ryan Faulk!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Shigeki Sano and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Drift misses with a head kick.
Faulk ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Drift tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Faulk manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Faulk has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Faulk there as he acknowledges the shot.
Drift leaves Faulk with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.

Faulk shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Faulk working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Drift's head.
Faulk is looking to work some ground and pound but Drift has wrist control.
Faulk postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Faulk postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Faulk with a nice head shot there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Drift looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Faulk works over Drift with some ground and pound from guard.
Faulk postures up and lands a big shot to Drift's brow.
Drift working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Faulk.
Faulk throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Drift works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Faulk stands up and waves to Drift to follow him.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Drift gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Faulk to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Faulk lands a couple of decent looking shots.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Faulk missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Faulk working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Drift's head.

Drift is rocked!
Faulk working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Oh Drift is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Faulk arches his back and unloads with a massive left and a right! Drift's eyes roll back into his head, he's out cold! The ref dives in to stop the fight - wow, they were hard shots!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Ryan Faulk!
Ryan Faulk thanked the fans post fight for their support.