PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Orville Weiss (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Satoren Yamashita (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yamashita has chosen this fire burns as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Weiss
vs
Yamashita

150 cm
18
177 lbs
1 - 3 - 1

185 cm
25
175 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Orville Weiss!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Satoren Yamashita!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Crunch! Yamashita slams his shin into Weiss's torso.

Yamashita has taken the fight to the clinch.
Weiss using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Yamashita has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Yamashita gets underhooks to prevent Weiss's takedown attempt.
Weiss is working on a leg, looking for a takedown but Yamashita is defending well.
Weiss drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Orville Weiss. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Yamashita escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
A good leg kick by Yamashita.
Weiss throws a jab when Yamashita was well out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Yamashita scores with a leg kick.

Yamashita darts in and clinches Weiss up against the cage.

Yamashita's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Weiss takes a kick to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Weiss throws an off balance right hand
and Yamashita counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.

Yamashita clinches with his opponent.

Yamashita manages to break the clinch.

Yamashita gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Weiss takes a knee right on the jaw!

It looks like Orville Weiss has been cut.

Yamashita jumps guard and drags Weiss to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back.
Yamashita working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Weiss.
Weiss is fighting to break Yamashita's control of his arms but Yamashita is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Weiss missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yamashita controlling the position.
Yamashita avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Weiss really is a fat lump.

Yamashita pushes Weiss off for just long enough to get back to his feet. Very athletic spring there.
Yamashita scores with a push kick.
Satoren Yamashita seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Yamashita takes a swing at Weiss's ribcage but misses.
Yamashita circles to his right before unloading a perfect head kick! Weiss drops to the canvas, hurt badly! Yamashita follows Weiss to the ground and unloads with a series of strikes that force the referee to step in and end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Satoren Yamashita!
Satoren Yamashita was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.