PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Happy Deathday (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vladimir Arlovski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Happy Deathday has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Deathday
vs
Arlovski

195 cm
18
265 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
18
225 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Happy Deathday!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Vladimir Arlovski!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Vladimir Khabensky and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Arlovski shoots in but no luck this time.
Deathday tries for a takedown but Arlovski circles away easily
and Arlovski counters with a two punch combo.
Arlovski misses with a wild combination.

Arlovski scores a takedown into full mount!
Deathday is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Arlovski raining down shots from the mount!

Deathday is rocked!

It looks like Happy Deathday has been cut.
Deathday is working to get back to half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Deathday is breathing heavily.
Arlovski fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Oh Deathday is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Arlovski throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Deathday wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Arlovski.
Arlovski misses with a head shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Arlovski throws some wild stikes that Deathday manages to avoid easily.
Arlovski misses with a series of strikes from mount. He'll no doubt be working on his ground and pound when he gets back to the gym.
Arlovski thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Deathday avoids a series of strikes thrown by Arlovski.
Deathday seems to have got his legs back now.
Arlovski with the ground and pound from mount.

Happy Deathday's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Happy Deathday's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Vladimir Arlovski!