PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Pierre Struve (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Antonio Jose De Sucre (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Struve might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Hollywood Whore. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Struve
vs
Jose De Sucre

223 cm
25
211 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

190 cm
16
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Brawler
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Pierre Struve!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Antonio Jose De Sucre!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Matti Vanhoillinen and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
De Sucre throws out a loose jab but Struve uses good head movement to avoid it.
De Sucre throws out a loose jab but Struve uses good head movement to avoid it.
De Sucre checks a leg kick.
De Sucre changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.

Struve rushes De Sucre and presses him up against the cage.
Struve is pushing De Sucre up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
De Sucre misses with the head strike.

Struve is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. De Sucre can't fight it off and eventually Struve manages to take the fight to the floor. De Sucre looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.

Struve gets to his feet - De Sucre follows without any prompting.
The fighters circling - De Sucre throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Struve moves out of range of the strikes.
De Sucre throws out a loose jab but Struve uses good head movement to avoid it.
Struve slips a jab from De Sucre.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Struve avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
A telegraphed right hand from De Sucre misses the target.

Struve rushes De Sucre and presses him up against the cage.
De Sucre doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Struve drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
A head punch on the inside from De Sucre fails to land.

Struve manages to pull guard. Let's see whether he can land a sub off his back.
Struve is avoiding any damage by keeping wrist control.
Struve is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Struve trying to pass the guard but De Sucre defending well.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Struve controlling the action here.

Struve has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can De Sucre defend it? Struve steps over the head and cranks it - De Sucre is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Struve!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Pierre Struve!
Pierre Struve decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.