PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brandon Finch (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Antena (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Antena has chosen Convoy as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Finch
vs
Antena

150 cm
18
214 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

190 cm
18
199 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Good in bed

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

SP Ultimate Nutrition

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 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Brandon Finch!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, John Antena!
The judges for this bout are Arvi Lind, Marco Blurström and Matti Vanhoillinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Antena connects with a looping right hand.
Finch really is a fat lump.

Finch shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Finch showed some decent athleticism there.
Antena tries to kick Finch off in order to stand up. Finch Avoids the leg push though and dives into side control.
Antena is trying to escape and get back to his feet.

Finch working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.

Finch working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Finch tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Finch has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Antena wants to control but Finch postures up.
Antena tries to get back to half guard but can't.

Finch looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Antena is trying to control Finch's posture but Finch avoids it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Antena tries to control but end up mounted... ooooh, that's bad.

Finch is working for a guillotine from mount but Antena frees his head quite easily.
Antena tries to control the position but Finch now has his back.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Finch scores with a nice shot to the head of his opponent. Antena is looking for a way out.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Finch is working for a rear naked choke. Antena is not defending it well and Finch has tightened it up quickly! This could be all over! Antena refuses to tap and goes to sleep, forcing the referee to intervene. A little trickle of blood came out of Antena's nose as his head slumped to the floor. That is naaaasty!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Brandon Finch!
John Antena spoke after the fight, saying 'I think the convoy just rammed over me.'.