PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kaleva Vettenranta (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Uzziah Judah (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Judah has chosen We Ready as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Kaleva Vettenranta could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Uzziah Judah's chin.

Vettenranta
vs
Judah

181 cm
26
210 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

191 cm
26
212 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Sully's Bar & Grill
Leviathan Clothing

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 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Kaleva Vettenranta!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Uzziah Judah!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, Daniel Franklin and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Judah takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Vettenranta fails with the takedown
and Vettenranta takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.

Vettenranta closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Judah did well to prevent Vettenranta getting side control.
Vettenranta is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Judah wants to get back to his feet.
Vettenranta has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Judah keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Judah looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Vettenranta has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Vettenranta throwing shots but Judah is blocking nicely.
Judah is refusing to be controlled, as Vettenranta sits in half guard.
Judah avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Vettenranta.
Vettenranta thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Judah's head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vettenranta missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Vettenranta slows the pace down in half guard.
Vettenranta thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Vettenranta content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Judah taking some punishment here, with Vettenranta in his half guard.
Vettenranta seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vettenranta is controlling the pace.
Vettenranta scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Vettenranta throwing shots but Judah is blocking nicely.
Vettenranta throwing shots but Judah is blocking nicely.
Vettenranta passes to full mount!
Judah is trying to stand.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Judah can do anything to dispel that myth.
Vettenranta thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Vettenranta landing strikes from the mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vettenranta lands a big elbow.
Vettenranta raining down hammerfists from mount.
Vettenranta unloads with some shots from mount but Judah bucks and avoids them well.
Judah tries to get back to half guard but can't.

Vettenranta looking to secure an arm triangle but Judah defends it well.
Vettenranta working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Vettenranta lands a heavy elbow.
Vettenranta scores with a couple of good head shots there.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Vettenranta.

Judah is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Vettenranta can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Judah is looking to escape.
Judah is still in real trouble! Can Vettenranta finish him?
Vettenranta misses with a head shot.
Vettenranta landing punches.
Judah seems to have recovered his senses.
Vettenranta dominating with strikes here.
Poor strikes thrown by Vettenranta there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Judah is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Vettenranta lands a heavy shot. That's hurt Judah! Vettenranta sees the opportunity and turns up the heat - strike after strike land to the defenseless Judah and the ref dives in to save him! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Kaleva Vettenranta!
A very excited looking Kaleva Vettenranta 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.