PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Giuseppe Richard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rustu Bekcer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Richard
vs
Bekcer

155 cm
18
278 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

198 cm
18
255 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Brawler
Powerful

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Giuseppe Richard!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Rustu Bekcer!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Arvi Lind and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Richard slips a jab from Bekcer.
Bekcer misses with a hook. Richard ducked under it nicely.

Richard fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Bekcer, pushing him back against the cage.
Bekcer lands a nice shot to the body.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Bekcer as Richard tries to tie him up.
Richard missing with knees to the body.
Richard blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Bekcer gets through Richard's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

It looks like Giuseppe Richard has been cut.
Richard could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Bekcer pushes Richard back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Bekcer lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Bekcer lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Bekcer lands with a left to the head.
A nice right hand lands inside from Bekcer.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Richard is trying to pull guard but being pressed up against the cage enables Bekcer to keep the fight standing.
Richard tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Bekcer avoids it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Richard stalling in the clinch but Bekcer improves position.
Bekcer stalling the fight.
Bekcer lands a hook to the side of the head.
A bit of stalling here from Bekcer.
Bekcer doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Bekcer pushes Richard against the cage. Bekcer is working some dirty boxing. Bekcer pushes off with a quick right hook! Richard goes down! Richard tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Bekcer moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rustu Bekcer!
A very excited looking Rustu Bekcer made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.