PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Charles St Lickitung (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mahashi Morimoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). St Lickitung's entrance music is Pokemon Red Gym Leader Battle Music. A fine choice. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

St Lickitung
vs
Morimoto

169 cm
27
160 lbs
10 - 9 - 0

186 cm
26
155 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Basic striking
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Brawler
Tends to cut

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 10 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Charles St Lickitung!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mahashi Morimoto!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Morimoto tries to clinch up.

St Lickitung closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - St Lickitung lands in his opponent's guard.
St Lickitung with a nice head shot there.
Morimoto trying to keep a closed guard but St Lickitung is proving a slippery customer.

St Lickitung drops back looking for a leg! Morimoto is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Morimoto manages to kick St Lickitung off! St Lickitung jumps back into Morimoto's guard.
Morimoto wants to get back to his feet but St Lickitung is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
St Lickitung wants to control from the top but Morimoto keeps moving.
St Lickitung 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.
St Lickitung tries to free his leg and advance position but Morimoto is retaining full guard.
Morimoto is trying to keep St Lickitung in close.
St Lickitung trying to control the position from guard on top but Morimoto is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Morimoto is trying to control the position but St Lickitung postures up.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Morimoto closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. St Lickitung did well to prevent Morimoto getting side control.
The fighters are battling for position here. St Lickitung manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
St Lickitung is pulling down on Morimoto's head to control his posture.

St Lickitung is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Morimoto defends well.
Morimoto postures up.

St Lickitung is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Morimoto is aware though and is defending well.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
St Lickitung lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Morimoto!
Morimoto has given up his back. Will we see St Lickitung going for some submissions?

St Lickitung has got one arm under Morimoto's chin. This could be trouble... Morimoto trying to control the other hand but St Lickitung gets it free and sqeezes tight - just a matter of time now! Yep, Morimoto has tapped out! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Charles St Lickitung!
Charles St Lickitung decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.