PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Squirtle Blastoise (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tsuyoshi Tamatso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Blastoise's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, The Rolling Stones: Sympathy For The Devil. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Blastoise
vs
Tamatso

192 cm
32
200 lbs
11 - 7 - 2

180 cm
35
178 lbs
24 - 9 - 0

BJJ Red Belt
Solid boxing
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Hell's Balls Recovery (160)

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 11 - 7 - 2, fighting out of Amsterdam, Squirtle Blastoise!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 24 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Tsuyoshi Tamatso!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, James Glass and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Blastoise fails with the takedown

and Tamatso counters with a single leg into guard. Blastoise didn't expect that.
Tamatso stays in close to Blastoise's body and controls the position.
Tamatso trying to control but Blastoise is working from the bottom.
Tamatso trying to move into half guard but instead Blastoise has managed to sweep!
Blastoise will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Tamatso is on top in guard.
Tamatso sitting in guard here, content to control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tamatso looking to sit in guard and control but Blastoise gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Tamatso working away from the bottom but not quite defensive enough there because Blastoise has passed into half guard!

Blastoise is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Tamatso has managed to free his arm - good work.
Blastoise stalling away here and it's allowed Tamatso to slip out his trapped foot and regain full guard.

Tamatso working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Blastoise doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Blastoise manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blastoise pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Tamatso is keeping the position for now.
Tamatso is trying to control the position but Blastoise postures up.
Blastoise trying to control the position from guard on top but Tamatso is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Tamatso trying to control the position here.
Tamatso is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Tamatso keeping moving, preventing Blastoise from controlling successfully.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Tamatso throws the overhand right but ducks down into a quick takedown attempt. Blastoise was covering up waiting for the punch and Tamatso finishes the takedown easily into guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tamatso passes Blastoise's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Tamatso is looking to stall here but Blastoise recovers full guard.
Tamatso trying to control the position from guard on top but Blastoise is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tamatso looking to pass the guard.
Tamatso pushing down on Blastoise's thigh, trying to pass to half guard. He's managed it... Nice work.
Well, if Tamatso is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Blastoise trying to control but Tamatso postures up.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Tamatso seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Blastoise does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.

Blastoise looking for submissions off his back.
Tamatso is controlling the pace.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.

Tamatso is trying to work for a kimura. This could be trouble! No, Blastoise has managed to free his arm - good work.
Tamatso is trying to advance to mount but he's lost his balance and Blastoise reverses the position - he's now on top in Tamatso's guard.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.

Tamatso looks to be working for a triangle here. Oh, it looks like he might have it! Blastoise has picked Tamatso up and slammed him! Tamatso can't keep hold of the triangle and Blastoise manages to pass to side control!

Blastoise tries for a kimura but Tamatso is defending well.

Blastoise looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Blastoise wants to lay and pray for a moment but Tamatso keeps working.

Blastoise is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Tamatso has escaped the position, nice work there.
Tamatso is trying to improve his position.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.

Blastoise goes for an armbar here - this could be all over! But no, Tamatso has escaped beautifully and is now on top in side control! Oh, that's unlucky for Blastoise but great work by Tamatso.
Tamatso is looking to take a break and control but Blastoise is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.

Tamatso swings around for an armbar but Blastoise sees it coming a mile off and turns beautifully into Tamatso's guard.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Blastoise tries to free his leg and advance position but Tamatso is retaining full guard.
Blastoise sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Tamatso's guard.
Tamatso is trying to maintain the position but Blastoise is very close to passing his half guard.

Blastoise is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Tamatso defends it well.
Blastoise is looking to stall here but Tamatso recovers full guard.
Blastoise trying to control but Tamatso is working from the bottom.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Blastoise engaging in some classic timewasting tactics.
Blastoise trying to control but Tamatso is working from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tsuyoshi Tamatso dominated that round.
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.

A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Blastoise.
Blastoise misses with a takedown attempt - Tamatso sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.

Tamatso throws the overhand right but ducks down into a quick takedown attempt. Blastoise was covering up waiting for the punch and Tamatso finishes the takedown easily into guard.
Blastoise can't keep his opponent in guard - Tamatso advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.

Tamatso is trying for a kimura here. Blastoise looks like he's in a lot of pain... and he's tapping out! Tamatso wins by kimura!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Tsuyoshi Tamatso!
A relieved looking Tsuyoshi Tamatso thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.