PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Marcin Kaminski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lasse Willemoes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Willemoes has chosen Who Let the Dogs out??- Baha men as his entrance music. Lasse Willemoes has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Marcin Kaminski's chin.

Kaminski
vs
Willemoes

183 cm
28
191 lbs
16 - 6 - 1

185 cm
36
197 lbs
22 - 14 - 1

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 6 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Marcin Kaminski!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 14 - 1, fighting out of London, Lasse Willemoes!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Donald Grub and Phil Schofield.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kaminski with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Willemoes misses with a looping right.
A left lands for Willemoes.
Willemoes avoids the head kick by Kaminski.
Kaminski throws a sloppy head kick and Willemoes moves out of range easily.
Willemoes ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Kaminski looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Kaminski has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Willemoes throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Willemoes throws a big shot that misses.

Kaminski gets caught flat footed, as Willemoes shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Willemoes slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
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!
Willemoes throws an elbow but Kaminski slips to the side and avoids it well.
Willemoes scoring with punches from side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaminski looks to move to half guard but instead Willemoes has passed into mount! Damn!
Willemoes lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Kaminski keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Kaminski wants to hold on but Willemoes pushes him away.
Willemoes has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Willemoes cracks Kaminski with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Willemoes working the ground and pound effectively.
The referee warns Kaminski that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Willemoes raining down hammerfists from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Willemoes controlling from the full mount.
Willemoes landing strikes from the mount.

Kaminski is rocked!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Willemoes takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Kaminski working to try and regain half guard.

Willemoes swings around for an armbar but it's a sloppy attempt and Kaminski is now in Willemoes's guard. A big mistake from Willemoes there, giving up the dominant position!
Kaminski has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Kaminski lands a couple of elbows.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Kaminski has a momentary lapse of concentration, allowing Willemoes to throw up a leg and lock on what appears to be a pretty tight triangle! Kaminski is fighting it off but it's all too little too late - Willemoes pulls down on the head and he's put Kaminski to sleep! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Lasse Willemoes!
Lasse Willemoes took some time post fight to say the following; 'Who let the DOGS out? Who, who, who, who!!!???!!!'.