PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between John Pain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tekito Tumoko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tekito Tumoko has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with John Pain's chin.

Pain
vs
Tumoko

162 cm
18
143 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

185 cm
34
130 lbs
2 - 16 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, John Pain!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Tekito Tumoko!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Shigeki Sano and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pain swats away the attempt to clinch by Tumoko.

Pain shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Pain was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Pain remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Pain working the ground and pound but Tumoko is defending the strikes.
Pain landing strikes.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Pain controlling from side mount.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain working the ground and pound from side control.
Tumoko parries the strikes from Pain easily there. Pain is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Tumoko to escape.
Pain throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Pain working the head and body with strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tumoko is trying to escape the position but Pain is controlling the position.
Pain scoring with punches from side control.
Tumoko is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Pain lands a few punches from side control.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
An elbow from Pain crashes against the mat.
Pain misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Pain just content to control the position.
Pain scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Tumoko to see if he's OK.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pain controlling from side mount.
Pain working the ground and pound.
Tumoko is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Tumoko parries the strikes from Pain easily there. Pain is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Tumoko to escape.
You can see the frustration on Tumoko's face as Pain controls the position.
Tumoko is not in a great position here, taking some shots.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pain in side control, just content to control the action for now.
Pain landing a few strikes.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Tumoko is working to avoid the ground and pound but Pain connects with a decent elbow.
Pain scores with punches from side control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

John Pain dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Pain shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
Pain landing some decent shots from guard.
Pain stays in close to Tumoko's body and controls the position.
Pain postures up in Tumoko's guard and throws a big left but Tumoko blocks it.
Pain throwing strikes from guard but Tumoko blocks nicely.
Pain content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Pain in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pain missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Pain lands a couple of digs.
Pain showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Pain slips nicely into half guard.
Pain is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Tumoko can do to turn this around?
Pain drops an elbow to the side of Tumoko's head.
Pain working over Tumoko with some ground and pound. Tumoko looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Pain 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.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pain missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Pain thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Tumoko's head.
Nice strikes from Pain there.
Pain is controlling the pace.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Pain seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Tumoko for as long as he can get away with.
Pain lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Pain looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Tumoko with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Pain thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Tumoko's head.
Pain lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Pain missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Pain slips a nice elbow through Tumoko's hands, connecting with Tumoko's forehead.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pain missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Nice strikes from Pain there.
Tumoko keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Pain perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Pain lands a nice short elbow.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Pain scores with a couple of good hammerfists.

Tumoko is rocked!
Pain frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Pain scoring with strikes but Tumoko is staying in there.
Tumoko is still in real trouble! Can Pain finish him?
Pain drops a big elbow. That's hurt Tumoko! More shots from Pain and the ref steps in! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Pain!