PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Hiroyuki Okamoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vince Hardy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Okamoto comes to the cage accompanied by Feel the Drive. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Okamoto
vs
Hardy

168 cm
32
152 lbs
22 - 16 - 1

177 cm
22
160 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Milwaukee's Best 160 (85% laundry)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 16 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Hiroyuki Okamoto!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Vince Hardy!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Hirohito Nitta and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hardy avoids the head kick by Okamoto.
Okamoto lands a nice leg kick that just misses Hardy's sensitive parts.
Okamoto tries to land a leg kick but Hardy saw it coming and moves away.
Hardy looks for a takedown but Okamoto sprawls well.
Hiroyuki Okamoto seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Okamoto feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Hardys jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
A solid leg kick lands there for Okamoto.
Okamoto defending well as Hardy loads up on a big left hand.
Nice defenses there by Okamoto.
Okamoto fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Hardy.
Okamoto pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Okamoto.
Hardy avoids a kick to the body.
Okamoto lands with a kick to the temple. Hardy shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
A looping hook to the body misses from Hardy. Okamoto does a little dance to reset his feet.
Okamoto lands a body shot.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Okamoto. Hardy shrugs it off though.
Hardy stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Okamoto.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hardy misses the jab.
Okamoto looks to land a body kick but Hardy moved away.
Okamoto looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Okamoto wants to slow Hardy down by chopping away at his legs.
Okamoto lands with a thumping leg kick.
Okamoto looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Okamoto definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.

Okamoto gets caught napping as Hardy dives in and scores a takedown. Okamoto manages to retain guard.
Okamoto wants to sweep here but Hardy controlling him for the moment.
Okamoto manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Hardy is in all sorts of trouble here.
Hardy has found himself in a tricky position here. He's been working his transitions in training so let's see if he can work his way out of it.
Hardy avoids a series of strikes thrown by Okamoto.
Okamoto lands a big shot there that rocks Hardy but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Okamoto has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Okamoto throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Hardy tries to hold on but Okamoto pushes him away.
Hardy holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Okamoto tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Hardy tries to get back to half guard but can't.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Okamoto thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Okamoto with the ground and pound from mount.
Okamoto scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Okamoto throws some wild stikes that Hardy manages to avoid easily.
Poor strikes thrown by Okamoto there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Poor strikes thrown by Okamoto there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Okamoto scoring with strikes but Hardy is staying in there.
Okamoto sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Okamoto thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Okamoto looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Okamoto throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Okamoto with the ground and pound from mount.
Okamoto working the ground and pound effectively.

Hardy is rocked!
Okamoto looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Hardy covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hiroyuki Okamoto!
In defeat, Vince Hardy stepped up to the mic, saying 'As always I can do everything through Christ my lord and savior who strengthens me. Without him I wouldn't be here tonight. Don't worry I'll be back.'.