PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ali Turko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Kreese (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kreese is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Sweep the Leg. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Turko
vs
Kreese

188 cm
23
199 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

190 cm
18
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Determined

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ali Turko!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, John Kreese!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Ren Mimura and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Turko shoots in but Kreese avoids the takedown attempt easily.

Turko closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Turko is stalling here. Kreese is in no mood to hang around though. He's locked up a kimura from the bottom! Turko seems to be keeping calm but he's forced to roll out of the hold and Kreese has ended up in side control on the top. Nice work.

Kreese is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Turko has escaped the position, nice work there.

Kreese is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Turko has escaped the position, nice work there.
Kreese in side control, throwing shots but Turko defends.

Kreese is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Turko is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.

Kreese looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Turko is trying to get back to half guard.
Turko manages to work his way to half guard, despite Kreese's best efforts.
Kreese is thwarting Turko's attempts to control the position.

Kreese in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Turko tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Kreese!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). John Kreese!