PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jaska Jalovaara (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matthew Godbolt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jalovaara comes to the cage accompanied by Die for Metal. Godbolt has chosen Trenches by Pop Evil as his entrance music. 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!

Jalovaara
vs
Godbolt

183 cm
30
190 lbs
18 - 6 - 1

186 cm
30
202 lbs
19 - 11 - 2

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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Fury Nutrition Inc.

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 18 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jaska Jalovaara!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 11 - 2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Matthew Godbolt!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jalovaara scores with a jab. Godbolt acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Jalovaara takes one to the side of the head.
Godbolt connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
A swing and a miss from Godbolt.
Godbolt lands with a right hand.
Jalovaara connects with a single shot there.
A swing and a miss from Godbolt.
Jalovaara tried to counter with a leg kick but Godbolt avoided it.
Godbolt checks a leg kick.
Jalovaara throws a leg kick

and Godbolt counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jalovaara is not content to let Godbolt control the position.
Godbolt missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

Godbolt is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Jalovaara doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Godbolt.
Jalovaara is working for an escape here. He's hooked one of Godbolt's legs and he's managed to sneak out and take Godbolt's back!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Godbolt rolls and manages to get back to half guard. Nicely done.
Jalovaara wants to lay and pray for a moment but Godbolt keeps working.
Godbolt is controlling Jalovaara's position as best he can from this difficult position.
Jalovaara with the ground and pound but Godbolt uses the opportunity to regain guard.
Godbolt looking for a sweep. Not yet Godbolt, not yet.
Godbolt trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Godbolt looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Godbolt doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Godbolt trying to keep a closed guard but Jalovaara is proving a slippery customer.
Godbolt working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Jalovaara.
Godbolt is trying to control the position from the bottom.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Jalovaara trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Godbolt keeping moving, preventing Jalovaara from controlling successfully.
Godbolt looking for a sweep. Not yet Godbolt, not yet.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
Godbolt lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Jalovaara at a distance.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt misses with an uppercut. Jalovaara saw that one coming.
Godbolt misses with an uppercut. Jalovaara saw that one coming.
Godbolt avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Jaska Jalovaara seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Jalovaara throws a low kick, looking for Godbolt's leg but Godbolt calmly moves out of range.
Godbolt feints the counter takedown.
Jalovaara tries to close the distance and clinch up but Godbolt swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A looping hook to the body misses from Godbolt. Jalovaara does a little dance to reset his feet.
Godbolt scores with a nice right hand.
Godbolt moves out of range of the body kick.
Jalovaara throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Godbolt is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Jalovaara lets loose with a powerful body kick. Godbolt will feel that in the morning.
Jalovaara throws a solid leg kick but Godbolt takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Jalovaara.
Godbolt showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Jalovaara.
And Godbolt tries to counter it with a takedown but Jalovaara pushes his down on his head and steps out.
Godbolt fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Jalovaara manages to avoid it.
Jalovaara just misses with a punch to the body.
Godbolt drops down looking to force a counter takedown but Jalovaara defends it well.
Godbolt moves out of range as Jalovaara throws a body kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Godbolt throws a jab but it's blocked by Jalovaara.
It looked like Jalovaara wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Jalovaara.
Jalovaara looks to land a body kick but Godbolt moved away.
Jalovaara misses with a head kick.
Jalovaara lunges at Godbolt with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Godbolt's hand.
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!
A big right from Godbolt misses.
Jalovaara stuns Godbolt with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Jab, jab by Godbolt - just one landing.
Godbolt shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Jalovaara defends it nicely.
Godbolt lands an overhand right.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Matthew Godbolt will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Jalovaara throws a nice inside leg kick.
Godbolt looks to throw the jab but Jalovaara is out of range.
Jalovaara scores with a crisp jab that stopped Godbolt in his tracks.
Godbolt throws a good cross that connects.
A head kick misses from Jalovaara.
A nice leg kick lands there from Jalovaara.
Godbolt is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Jalovaara.
Jalovaara tries to counter by moving into the clinch but Godbolt manages to circle out of the way.
Jalovaara lands with a cross.

Godbolt closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Jalovaara's guard.
Godbolt forces his way into half guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Godbolt trying to pass the guard but Jalovaara defending well.
Godbolt trying to control from half guard but Jalovaara is working away.

Jalovaara looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Godbolt is trying to control the action in half guard but Jalovaara is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Godbolt works his way into full mount!
Godbolt tries to control but Jalovaara wriggling away.
Jalovaara is trying desperately to improve position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Jalovaara is working hard here to advance position.
Matthew Godbolt has got the better of the ground game so far.
Godbolt trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Jalovaara keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Jalovaara takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Godbolt cracks Jalovaara with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Jalovaara is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.
Godbolt tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Godbolt breaks from Jalovaara's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Godbolt postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Jalovaara bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Godbolt and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:52 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Matthew Godbolt!
During a confident post fight interview, Matthew Godbolt thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.