PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Antoine Wallace (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jakub Kochanowski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Wallace comes into the arena with Pray by Jay-Z feat. Rob Dougan blaring out of the sound system. Kochanowski has chosen Midgard as his entrance music. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Wallace
vs
Kochanowski

175 cm
34
204 lbs
23 - 15 - 0

193 cm
34
200 lbs
16 - 20 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
KO power

Powerful takedowns
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 23 - 15 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Antoine Wallace!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 20 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jakub Kochanowski!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Skip Squint and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Wallace shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Wallace showed some decent athleticism there.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Wallace is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Kochanowski has his hands clasped together around Wallace's back. He's all about the action.
Wallace is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Wallace throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Wallace winds up and cracks Kochanowski with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Wallace is nestled in close to Kochanowski, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Wallace working the head and body with strikes.
Kochanowski manages to get to full guard.
Wallace trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wallace throwing strikes but missing.
Kochanowski is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Wallace controlling the position for now.

Wallace looking to force a kimura from the bottom here. He's concentrating on that move too much though and Kochanowski pushes past his half guard into mount!
Kochanowski sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Wallace is trying to escape the mount.
Wallace is squirming around, avoiding Kochanowski's attempts to control the action.
Wallace tries to lock up and control but Kochanowski gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.
Wallace might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Kochanowski wants to control the pace but Wallace is squirming around nicely.
Wallace tries to lock up and control but Kochanowski gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wallace is in all sorts of trouble here.
Kochanowski fails to take his opponent's back.
Wallace sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Wallace is defending against the submission attempts here by Kochanowski.
Wallace wants to improve his position but Kochanowski is controlling well.

Wallace looking for submissions off his back.
Wallace is looking for a sweep. Kochanowski is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.

Kochanowski is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Wallace is looking to get back to full guard here but Kochanowski has managed to pass to side control instead.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kochanowski wants to lay and pray for a moment but Wallace keeps working.

Kochanowski looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Wallace tries to buck Kochanowski off but Kochanowski is having none of it.

Kochanowski has hold of Wallace's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Wallace tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Kochanowski cranks the arm and Wallace screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Wallace, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Jakub Kochanowski!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Jakub Kochanowski waved his t-shirt featuring Happy Pills 159Q's logo in front of the cameras.