PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Kenshin Yamamoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Piotr Bukowski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bukowski comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Donatan, Gural, Sheller, Kaczor, Ry23, Rafi - Słowiańska krew kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! This should be a great matchup!

Yamamoto
vs
Bukowski

169 cm
29
147 lbs
9 - 1 - 0

168 cm
21
145 lbs
7 - 5 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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Steel Penn's All 160

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kenshin Yamamoto!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Piotr Bukowski!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Fujiwara, Shigeki Sano and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yamamoto stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Bukowski.
Bukowski just misses with a punch to the body.
Bukowski jabs Yamamoto to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Good leg kick by Bukowski there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Yamamoto looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Good work by Yamamoto as he checks the leg kick.
Bukowski is looking to slow Yamamoto down with leg kicks.
Bukowski scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.

Yamamoto fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Bukowski to the ground. Yamamoto is now in Bukowski's guard.
Bukowski working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Yamamoto.
Yamamoto cracks Bukowski with a solid left hand.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Yamamoto wants to control from the top but Bukowski keeps moving.
Yamamoto slips nicely into half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Yamamoto lands a nice short elbow.
Yamamoto trying to control from half guard but Bukowski is working away.
Yamamoto thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Bukowski's head.
Yamamoto missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Bukowski is refusing to be controlled, as Yamamoto sits in half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yamamoto trying to mount his opponent but Bukowski defends it.
Bukowski is trying to stand back up but Yamamoto is controlling him
Yamamoto scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Yamamoto lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Yamamoto working over Bukowski with some ground and pound. Bukowski looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Yamamoto passes the guard and advances to mount!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Yamamoto is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Bukowski can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Poor strikes thrown by Yamamoto there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Yamamoto putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Yamamoto has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Bukowski's face.
Yamamoto trying to control but Bukowski is having none of it.
Bukowski avoids a series of strikes thrown by Yamamoto.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Yamamoto throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Bukowski tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Yamamoto misses with a head shot.
Yamamoto working away from the top, dropping 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.
Yamamoto lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.

Bukowski is rocked!
Yamamoto lands a big shot to the head and Bukowski winces in pain. He's tapped out due to strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Kenshin Yamamoto!
Kenshin Yamamoto retains his bantamweight title!
Our winner, Kenshin Yamamoto, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
Piotr Bukowski was interviewed post fight and said 'I demand rematch!'.