PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kotetsu Yamamoto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Balbus Michael (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Yamamoto
vs
Michael

168 cm
23
149 lbs
11 - 2 - 0

178 cm
23
150 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Kotetsu Yamamoto!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Balbus Michael!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Illya Tyunina and Sergei Dronov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Michael throws a low kick, looking for Yamamoto's leg but Yamamoto calmly moves out of range.
Nice uppercut lands for Michael. That snapped Yamamoto's head back.
Michael misses with a lunging right hand
and Yamamoto counters with a straight right hand.
Michael misses with a leg kick

and Yamamoto counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Yamamoto.
Michael trying to control the position.
Yamamoto scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Yamamoto keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Michael's head.
Yamamoto distracts Michael with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Michael can't keep his opponent in guard - Yamamoto advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Michael is trying to control but can't.

Michael looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Yamamoto missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Yamamoto 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.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Michael looking for submissions off his back.
Yamamoto scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Yamamoto prevents Michael from improving his position.
Yamamoto winds up and cracks Michael with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Yamamoto lands strikes from half guard.
Michael has hold of Yamamoto's hands but Yamamoto slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

Michael is rocked!
Yamamoto lands a massive shot from half guard that has rocked Michael! More strikes land and this one is all over! Yamamoto jumps to his feet and is applauded loudly by the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kotetsu Yamamoto!
Kotetsu Yamamoto retains his featherweight title!
Kotetsu Yamamoto took to the mic in his post fight interview and said 'We are NJPW!!!'.