PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Helmeri Haapasaari (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pele Ronaldo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Haapasaari
vs
Ronaldo

185 cm
29
254 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

177 cm
26
266 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Experienced

Powerful takedowns
Counter fighter
Good gas tank

DC Nutrition

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 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Helmeri Haapasaari!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Pele Ronaldo!
The judges for this bout are Roosa Järviläinen, Marco Blurström and Tarja Halkonen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Haapasaari catches Ronaldo with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Haapasaari misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Haapasaari jabs at Ronaldo's body.
Haapasaari jabs Ronaldo to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Haapasaari cracks Ronaldo with an open hand slap.
Ronaldo misses with a takedown attempt
and Haapasaari counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Ronaldo throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Haapasaari's waist but Haapasaari gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Ronaldo off to one side.
Haapasaari throws out a powerful jab.
Ronaldo takes a shot to the body in his stride.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Haapasaari throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Ronaldo gets the takedown into side control.
Haapasaari struggling a bit here.
Haapasaari on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Haapasaari tries to get out of the position.
Haapasaari tries to improve position but can't.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Ronaldo tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Ronaldo has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Ronaldo has been taking part in the yoga sessions down at CT + BJJ & Wrestling sparring gym. Presumably he's going to look for a slick submission... Or maybe he's looking to avoid one.

Ronaldo has hold of Haapasaari's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Haapasaari tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Ronaldo cranks the arm and Haapasaari screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Haapasaari, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Pele Ronaldo!
Pele Ronaldo thanked the fans post fight for their support.