PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Chan-Sung Jung (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Roko Tiili (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jung's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Waiting Room. Tiili comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Antti Railio - Halla ja etelätuuli kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Jung
vs
Tiili

150 cm
42
130 lbs
47 - 23 - 0

168 cm
31
137 lbs
16 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Perkele!

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 47 - 23 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Chan-Sung Jung!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Roko Tiili!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Andrew Berry and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jung closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Tiili uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
Tiili misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Jung.
Tiili blocks a head kick by Jung.
Tiili works Jung's body with a nice hook.
Tiili takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Tiili slaps away a takedown attempt from Jung, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Tiili misses with a wild body shot.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Jung takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Tiili misses the shot to the body.
Tiili lands with a kick to the ribs.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tiili is looking to clinch.
Tiili is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Jung.
Tiili fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Jung manages to avoid it.
Tiili is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Tiili takes a swing at Jung's ribcage but misses.
Jung moves out of range of the strikes.
Jung blocks a jab.
Tiili throws a hook but Jung avoids it easily.
Jung feinted with a counter takedown.
Jung throws a head kick that misses
and Tiili counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Jung thinking.
Tiili scores with a hook.
The fighters circle momentarily. Tiili darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Jung keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tiili pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Tiili misses with a wild body shot.
Tiili just manages to avoid a counter high kick fromJung.
Tiili thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Jung if he has to take too many more of those.

Tiili shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Jung wants to get back to full guard.
Tiili is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.

Jung is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Tiili pulls his head out easily.

Jung looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Tiili seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Jung does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Tiili scoring with strikes to the body and head.

Jung looking for a kimura from the bottom but Tiili passes into side control!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tiili working the ground and pound.
Tiili scoring with punches and elbows.
Jung is looking for a sweep.
Jung might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Tiili working the ground and pound from side control.
Tiili scoring with punches and elbows.
Tiili works to advance to full mount. Jung defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Jung is desperately trying to improve his position but Tiili has a good base and remains in mount.
Tiili with the ground and pound from mount.
Tiili lands a couple of good shots and Jung has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Tiili landing with strikes.
You can see the frustration on Jung's face… He knows he is in trouble unless he improves his position sooner rather than later.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Tiili is landing with strikes from the back.

Jung is rocked!
Tiili lands with a hammerfist to the side of Jung's head.
Oh Jung is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Tiili trying to secure his dominant position for a moment - making sure Jung doesn't escape.
Tiili cracks Jung with a big right hand from the back mount! Jung immediately covers up and the referee dives in to save him under a barrage of more strikes! Tiili takes this one by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Roko Tiili!
Roko Tiili decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.