PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Spice Baby (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jenkka Kahva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kahva has chosen The Prodigy - Firestarter as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Baby
vs
Kahva

200 cm
20
262 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

173 cm
27
280 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Brawler
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Spice Baby!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jenkka Kahva!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Johanna Lukiainen and Matti Vanhoillinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Kahva closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Baby's guard.
Kahva is looking to work some ground and pound but Baby has wrist control.
Baby preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Kahva's corner. There ya go! There ya go!

It looks like Spice Baby has been cut.
Kahva working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Kahva pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Baby is keeping the position for now.
Kahva must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Baby is trying to keep Kahva in close.
Kahva lands a couple of decent looking shots.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Baby looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Kahva scoring with some ground and pound.
Kahva missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Baby avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Baby utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Kahva working some strikes from top position.
Baby utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Baby is trying to control the position but Kahva postures up.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Kahva closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Kahva working away.
Baby is breathing heavily.
The referee asks Kahva politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Kahva prefers to stall for the moment though.
Baby parries the strikes from Kahva easily there. Kahva is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Baby to escape.
Kahva tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Kahva tries to stand but Baby is controlling his head.
Baby gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Kahva lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kahva missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Kahva thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Baby's head.
Kahva thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Kahva throwing shots but Baby is blocking nicely.

Kahva seems to be working for a kimura but Baby defends the submission attempt.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Kahva missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Kahva throwing shots but Baby is blocking nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Baby works his way to full guard. Good work.
Kahva throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Kahva postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Kahva is in close to Baby's body, working some short punches and elbows.

Spice Baby's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Kahva connects with a couple of short punches.

Jeez, Spice Baby's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Jenkka Kahva!
Jenkka Kahva seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.