PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Wakka Pakka (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Speedy Light (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Pakka
vs
Light

180 cm
29
185 lbs
9 - 8 - 0

185 cm
29
180 lbs
10 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Wakka Pakka!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Speedy Light!
The judges for this bout are Roosa Järviläinen, Arvi Lind and Tarja Halkonen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pakka gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Light.
Pakka connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.

It looks like Speedy Light has been cut.
Pakka ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Light moves away.
Light takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.

Pakka clinches.
Pakka misses with some punches.

Pakka breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Pakka turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Pakka lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Pakka swings widly with a right hand
and Light counters with a two punch combo.
Light on the wrong end of a nice jab.

Light is rocked!
Pakka throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Pakka ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Light moves away.
Light takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Light is still on wobbly legs! Can Pakka finish him?
Light swings and misses with a hook to the body.

Pakka clinches with his opponent.
Pakka misses with a punch on the inside.
Pakka throws a punch but it's blocked by Light.
A nice left hand lands by Pakka.
Pakka fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Light tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Pakka's elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Pakka breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Pakka misses with the combination.
Light throws a series of punches but Pakka avoids them all with ease.
Pakka looks to land a combination but Light avoids it well.
Light slips under a jab.
Pakka lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Light circles away quickly and effectively.
Light seems to have recovered his senses.
Light slips under a jab.
Pakka ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Pakka moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.
Pakka looks to land a combination but Light avoids it well.
Pakka moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.

Pakka drives through and clinches with Light against the cage.
Light is trying to break the clinch but Pakka is controlling him.
Pakka has a couple of punches blocked by Light.
Nice body punch from Pakka - that landed with a thud.
Pakka misses with a hook from the clinch.
Light goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Pakka breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Pakka lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Pakka throws a leg kick but Light checks it.

Pakka has taken the fight to the clinch.
Pakka lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Light takes a shot to the head.
Pakka misses with the head strike.
Light looking to slow down the pace here.

Pakka breaks the clinch.
Light moves away from the strike by Pakka.
Pakka throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Pakka loads up on a big right hand but Light slips the punch.

Pakka gets a clinch.
Pakka throws a head punch that misses.
Light is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Pakka breaks from the clinch.
Pakka throws a series of punches but Light moves out of range.
Light moves away from the strike by Pakka.
A big left from Pakka misses.
Pakka swinging wildly here.
Light throws a jab when Pakka was well out of range.
Pakka looks to land a right hand but Light moved out of range.
Light slips a straight right by Pakka.
Light throws a one two combo.
Pakka throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Light sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Pakka throws a combination that misses
and Light counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Light scores with a hook.
Light sizes up Pakka with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Pakka pulls out of a head kick attempt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Light lands a nice shot to the body.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Pakka clinches up against the cage.

Pakka escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Pakka slips a jab and a cross from Light.
Pakka misses with an uppercut
and Light counters with a left to the body.
Pakka throws a right and a left that Light avoids nicely.
Pakka will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Pakka throws a series of punches but Light moves out of range.
Pakka is breathing heavily.
Pakka tests Light's chin there with a solid looking shot.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Light displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Danga de danga de dang - Light scores with a four punch combination!
A left lands for Light.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Wakka Pakka dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Speedy Light's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Light gets tackled into the cage by Pakka. Pakka maintains the clinch.
Pakka misses with some punches.
Light blocks an uppercut.
Pakka throws a punch but it's blocked by Light.
Light goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Pakka working aggressively here.
Pakka tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Pakka softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Light is trying to break the clinch but Pakka has him pressed against the cage.
Light tries a body shot but Pakka blocks it.
Light is looking to break free of the clinch but Pakka has double underhooks.
A short right from Pakka.
Pakka lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Light tries a body shot but Pakka blocks it.
Pakka lands a hook that snaps the head of Light backwards.
Pakka swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Pakka lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Light struggles to land a body shot inside as Pakka controls his hands.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pakka struggles to land a body shot inside as Light controls his hands.
Pakka misses with a short punch on the inside.
A right handed body shot lands from Pakka.
Light misses with a body punch.

Pakka manages to break the clinch.
Light dodges the punch combination from Pakka.
Pakka throws a series of punches but Light moves out of range.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Pakka.
Pakka uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Light.
Pakka throws a looping overhand right but Light ducks down to avoid it.
Pakka misses with a hook. Light ducked under it nicely.

Light tries to keep at a distance but Pakka has taken the fight into the clinch.
Pakka works on Light's body with a couple of short punches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Light is trying to break the clinch but Pakka has him pressed against the cage.
Light takes a shot to the head.
Pakka is leaning against Light and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Pakka makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Light wants to get back to striking at distance but Pakka won't allow it.
A right hook to the body lands for Pakka.
Pakka lands a right hand.

Pakka pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Pakka moves into the clinch.

Pakka's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Pakka fails to land with a series of punches.
Pakka keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
A big right from Pakka misses.
Pakka lands with a straight right. Light didn't see that one coming.
Wakka Pakka seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fighters circling - Light throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Pakka throws an overhand right that drops Light like a sack of potatoes! Pakka dives in to finish the fight with more strikes and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:13 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Wakka Pakka!
A relieved looking Wakka Pakka thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.