PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marko Huntti (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Honcho (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Huntti
vs
Honcho

198 cm
25
270 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
20
275 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Marko Huntti!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Mike Honcho!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Matti Vanhoillinen and Tarja Halkonen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Honcho takes a jab right on the kisser.
Huntti looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
A slow jab from Honcho misses its intended target.
Huntti slips a jab from Honcho.
Huntti ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Honcho moves away.
Huntti fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Huntti turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Huntti misses with a wild body shot.
Honcho takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
A thudding body kick lands there by Huntti!
Honcho walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Huntti jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Huntti blocks a jab.
Huntti lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Honcho should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Honcho looks winded!
Huntti lands a nice looking body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Huntti lands with a kick to the ribs.
Huntti moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Huntti fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Huntti fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Honcho looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Huntti throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A nice inside leg kick there by Huntti. That's going to slow Honcho down.
Huntti feints and then cracks Honcho's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Honcho down.
Huntti lands a jab to Honcho's midsection.
Huntti connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
We can't be sure of the tactics at this early stage but we have heard that Honcho has been working on his takedowns a lot in the buildup to the fight and we can only assume he's going to look to take this to the mat.
Nice cross by Huntti.
Marko Huntti seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Huntti smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Honcho's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Huntti connects with an inside leg kick.
Huntti connects with a good right hand that stumbles Honcho. Honcho circles away out of range and recomposes himself.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Huntti lands a big head kick that sends Honcho tumbling to the mat! Huntti takes a step backwards and waves Honcho back to his feet - he wants the finish!

It looks like Mike Honcho has been cut.
Huntti connects with an inside leg kick.
Huntti lands a big head kick that sends Honcho to the canvas! Huntti follows up with strikes from the mount that forces the ref to step in and stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Marko Huntti!
Marko Huntti decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.