PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Pyry Perkele (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ender Wiggin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Perkele comes to the cage accompanied by Perkele . Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Perkele
vs
Wiggin

188 cm
27
226 lbs
21 - 7 - 0

188 cm
35
220 lbs
24 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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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 21 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Pyry Perkele!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 24 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ender Wiggin!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Wiggin scores with a nice right hand.
Perkele has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Team Finland in the buildup to the fight.
Wiggin tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Perkele was well out of range. Poor timing from Wiggin.
Good exchange - Wiggin coming out on top.
Wiggin has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Perkele.
A clash of legs there as Wiggin blocks the low kick.
Wiggin misses with a right hand

and Perkele counters by clinching up.
Perkele stalling in the clinch but Wiggin improves position.
Wiggin throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Perkele blocks it with crossed arms.
Wiggin throws a punch but it's blocked by Perkele.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Perkele.
Perkele working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Wiggin lands a left hand.
A nice right hand lands inside from Wiggin.
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!
Perkele lands a body shot in the clinch.
Perkele tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Wiggin avoids it.
Perkele avoids the elbow strike from Wiggin, against the cage.
Wiggin tries to work over Perkele's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Wiggin prevents a body shot from Perkele.
Perkele avoids a wild elbow strike from Wiggin.
Wiggin misses with a knee strike.
Wiggin with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wiggin managing to block the knees to the body from Perkele.
Wiggin swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Wiggin told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
A short uppercut from Wiggin.
Wiggin lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Wiggin misses with a hook to the ribs.
Wiggin blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Perkele missing with knees to the body.
Wiggin pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Wiggin with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Perkele just misses with a elbow thrown towards Wiggin's brow.
Perkele missing with knees to the body.
Wiggin lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Perkele tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Wiggin avoids it.
Perkele blocks a punch to the side of the head.
A nice right hand lands inside from Wiggin.
Perkele landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Perkele lands a knee to the body.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Wiggin just misses with a elbow thrown towards Perkele's brow.
Perkele unloads a knee to the mid-section. Wiggin lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Perkele tries to land knees in the clinch but Wiggin avoids the damage to the body.
Wiggin misses with a hook from the clinch.
Perkele lands an elbow inside that Wiggin shrugs off.

It looks like Ender Wiggin has been cut.
Wiggin on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Perkele is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Wiggin is defending well for now.
Perkele is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Wiggin is defending well for now.
Wiggin unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Perkele avoids a wild elbow strike from Wiggin.
Perkele misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Wiggin.
Perkele working aggressively here.
Wiggin gets through Perkele's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Perkele blocks a body shot from Wiggin.
Wiggin lands a damaging elbow.
Perkele landing knees to the body.
Wiggin pushes off an throws an elbow but Perkele leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Wiggin gets through Perkele's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Perkele displaying some good clinch control by pressing Wiggin up against the cage.
Perkele scores a nice knee to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Perkele doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Perkele digs a right hand underneath Wiggin's ribcage. Wiggin let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Wiggin lands a right hand.
Perkele lands an elbow just above Wiggin 's eye.
Perkele pushes Wiggin back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Wiggin creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Perkele unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Wiggin tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
This has been an exciting period of action!
A short uppercut from Wiggin.
Perkele missing with knees to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Wiggin creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Wiggin avoiding damage as Perkele throws knees to the body.
Wiggin working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Wiggin.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wiggin lands an elbow just above Perkele 's eye.
Wiggin lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Perkele backwards.
Perkele lands an elbow inside that Wiggin shrugs off.
Wiggin misses with a punch on the inside.
Perkele works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Wiggin.
A short body shot lands from Perkele as the two fighters clinch.
Wiggin looks winded!
Wiggin working aggressively here.
Perkele creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Wiggin's defenses.

That has opened up Ender Wiggin's cut even more.
Perkele using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Perkele lands a nice knee to the body.
Perkele lands a nice elbow.
Perkele utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Perkele lands a good knee to the midsection. Wiggin won't want to take too many of those.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Perkele lands with a short shot to the head.
Perkele working Wiggin over with knees to the body.
The referee calls for Perkele to work.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pyry Perkele dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ender Wiggin's cut.
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.

Perkele tries a low kick but Wiggin avoids it.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Wiggin checks a leg kick.
Perkele lets loose with a powerful body kick. Wiggin will feel that in the morning.
Perkele jabs Wiggin to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Perkele lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Wiggin takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Perkele throws a jab but it's blocked by Wiggin.
Wiggin avoids a kick to the body.
Wiggin pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Wiggin just misses with a punch to the body.
Good shot there by Perkele.
Ender Wiggin is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Perkele lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
Wiggin uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Perkele.
Perkele lands with an uppercut that bounces Wiggin off the cage and back into range.
Perkele uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Wiggin.
Wiggin getting the better of the striking in that exchange.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wiggin tries to clinch up.
Wiggin keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Perkele is looking to score with low kicks.
Wiggin ducks right into an uppercut from Perkele.
Perkele misses with a low kick.
Perkele fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Wiggin.
Perkele shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Wiggin loads up on a big right hand but Perkele slips the punch.
Decent striking displayed by Perkele there.
Wiggin moves out of range of the body kick.
Perkele fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Perkele fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Wiggin checks it well.
Perkele lands with a kick to the ribs.
A lazy left from Perkele finds it's target.
Wiggin misses with a body shot.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Wiggin moves into the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Perkele wants to stall.
Wiggin misses with an elbow strike.
Wiggin lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Perkele misses with a punch to the body.
Perkele tries to land knees in the clinch but Wiggin avoids the damage to the body.
Perkele throws a punch but it's blocked by Wiggin.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Wiggin.
Pyry Perkele has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Perkele obliges.
Wiggin throws a head punch that misses.
Perkele avoids a wild elbow strike from Wiggin.
Perkele throws an elbow that misses.
Perkele trying to control the position but instead, Wiggin has worked for underhooks and has pushed Perkele into the cage.
Wiggin lands a left hand.
A short left from Wiggin.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Wiggin just misses with a elbow thrown towards Perkele's brow.
Perkele displaying some good clinch control by pressing Wiggin up against the cage.
Wiggin misses with a knee strike.
Wiggin takes an elbow to the forehead.
Perkele goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Perkele lands with a short shot to the head.

Wiggin is rocked!

Ender Wiggin's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
Wiggin on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Wiggin is still on wobbly legs! Can Perkele finish him?
Wiggin takes an elbow to the temple.
Perkele landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Wiggin is breathing heavily.
Perkele lands a nice elbow.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Ender Wiggin's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:42 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Pyry Perkele!
A determined Pyry Perkele didn't want to dwell on this fight in his post fight interview. Instead he was more keen to state he wants a title shot. Let's see if he gets it!