PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Colin Mulligan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Usko Matonen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mulligan
vs
Matonen

170 cm
25
135 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

165 cm
18
140 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Colin Mulligan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Usko Matonen!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Matti Vanhoillinen and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Matonen scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Mulligan looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Nice cross by Matonen.
Mulligan closes the distance but Matonen moves to the side
letting Matonen counter with a right hand.

Mulligan is rocked!
Donk. Matonen catches Mulligan right on the button with a cross.
Oh Mulligan is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Mulligan tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Matonen manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Mulligan looks to throw a body kick
and Matonen counters with a stiff right hand.
BAM! Matonen delivers a spinning backfist that drops Mulligan like a ragdoll! This is all oooooveeeer! He was out before he hit the ground!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Spinning Backfist). Usko Matonen!
After the fight, Usko Matonen was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.