PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Eddy Trujillo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ayush Tandon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tandon is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: 300 Violin Orchestra. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Trujillo
vs
Tandon

180 cm
18
150 lbs
2 - 3 - 0

168 cm
24
145 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Inexperienced

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Eddy Trujillo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ayush Tandon!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Tarja Halkonen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tandon circles away from the clinch attempt
and Tandon counters with a nice body shot.

Tandon gets a clinch.
Trujillo can't break the clinch.

Tandon manages to break the clinch.

Trujillo gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.

Trujillo has butterfly guard. He's looking to stand up here. He pushes Tandon off him and springs to his feet nicely. The crowd applauds.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Tandon scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.

Trujillo throws Tandon to one side and escapes!

That's one minute gone in the round.

Tandon clinches up against the cage.
Trujillo is trying to push Tandon away but Tandon has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Trujillo is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Tandon tries to land knees in the clinch but Trujillo avoids the damage to the body.
Tandon leaning his opponent against the cage.

Tandon turns his back and goes for a hip toss. It's a bit messy but it gets the job done and Tandon manages to end up in side control.
Trujillo is not content to let Tandon control the position.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Trujillo is trying to control Tandon's posture but Tandon avoids it.
Trujillo is trying to stand back up. He's worked his way up against the cage but Tandon has just dragged him back down to the mat.
Trujillo regains half guard.
Tandon is keen to just control but Trujillo is a slippery customer.
Trujillo is doing well to avoid being mounted. He's controlling the position at the moment.
Tandon sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Trujillo defending well though.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Tandon is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Trujillo keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.

The referee has motioned to the fighters to stand back up. He just wasn't happy with the level of activity.

Tandon fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Trujillo sprawls well initially but Tandon persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Tandon trying to control the action but Trujillo is working from the bottom.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Tandon is looking to stall in half guard but Trujillo is in no mood to hang around. He's locked up a Kimura from the bottom and has used it to sweep! He's held on to the kimura and is looking to finish here... will he get it... YES! Tandon taps out and the crowd goes crazy! Great finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Eddy Trujillo!
Ayush Tandon was interviewed post fight and said 'I'll be back even better than this time.'.