PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Richard Lionheart (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Antti Hammer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Lionheart might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Van Damme - Lion Heart (Final Fight). Hammer has chosen Bolt Thrower - IV Crusade as his entrance music. Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Lionheart
vs
Hammer

160 cm
32
142 lbs
25 - 9 - 2

155 cm
28
134 lbs
16 - 7 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Reaper Combatwear

Perkele!
The Choke´s On You

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 25 - 9 - 2, fighting out of Helsinki, Richard Lionheart!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 7 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Antti Hammer!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Matti Vanhoillinen and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lionheart lands a nice looking body shot.
Hammer misses with a leg kick
and Lionheart counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Lionheart looks to score with a jab to the body but Hammer is just out of range.

Lionheart shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Hammer regains full guard, whilst avoiding punches from Lionheart.
Hammer is controlling Lionheart's posture.
Lionheart throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Hammer works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Lionheart advances position into side control!
Check out the look on Lionheart's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Lionheart throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Lionheart 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.
Hammer managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Lionheart.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hammer is trying to improve his position.
Lionheart fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Lionheart working the ground and pound but Hammer is defending the strikes.
Hammer tries to buck Lionheart off but Lionheart is having none of it.
Lionheart throwing ground and pound but whilst doing so, he forgets to control position and Hammer works his way back to half guard. Good composure under pressure.
Lionheart lands strikes from half guard.
Hammer is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Lionheart scores with a couple of nice shots.
Hammer keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Hammer is looking to improve his position.
Hammer wants to control the action here but instead Lionheart manages to pass to full mount!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lionheart punching from mount but Hammer doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Hammer can't escape the position.
Lionheart working the ground and pound effectively.

Hammer is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Lionheart looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Hammer 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 2:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Richard Lionheart!
Richard Lionheart retains his bantamweight title!
Richard Lionheart decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.