PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dick Tanner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tatsuo Nakano (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tanner's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Mr. Tanner. Nakano has chosen Disturbed - Decadance as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Tanner
vs
Nakano

189 cm
32
209 lbs
19 - 10 - 0

175 cm
31
218 lbs
21 - 15 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
Excellent boxer
Fast

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 19 - 10 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Dick Tanner!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 15 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Tatsuo Nakano!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Konstantin Menshow and Sergei Dronov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tanner is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Tanner swings away with a body shot that misses

and Nakano counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Tanner's guard now.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Tanner keeping moving, preventing Nakano from controlling successfully.

The fighters are working up against the cage. Tanner manages to wriggle his way back to his feet, so the fighters are now clinched against the cage.
Tanner is pressed up against the cage. Nakano has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Tanner down to the mat. Tanner avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Nakano checks a low kick from Tanner.
Tanner connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
A jab lands there for Tanner.
Tanner tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Tanner misses with a left hand
and Tanner takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Tanner fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Nakano has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Tanner turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Nakano shoots for a takedown but Tanner saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Tanner misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Nakano.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nakano on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Dick Tanner is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Nakano looks winded!
Tanner with a hook.
Tanner is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Tanner lands a nice looking body shot.
Tanner looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
A nice inside leg kick there by Tanner. That's going to slow Nakano down.

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

Nakano is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Tanner drops a shoulder and throws an uppercut that cracks Nakano right on the button. Nakano goes down! Tanner follows him to the mat and finishes the job with more strikes! Tanner gets the win via TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dick Tanner!
Dick Tanner retains his light heavyweight title!
A less than humble Dick Tanner misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.