PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Raven (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kalervo Kaunismieli (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Raven
vs
Kaunismieli

188 cm
38
197 lbs
28 - 14 - 1

183 cm
34
192 lbs
25 - 9 - 1

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Spartan Nutrition
Hellbent

KAISER Nutrition - Q160/$250
Hellbent

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 28 - 14 - 1, fighting out of New York, Thomas Raven!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 25 - 9 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Kalervo Kaunismieli!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, James Atkins and Chris Edwards.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kaunismieli lands a nice leg kick that just misses Raven's sensitive parts.
Raven misses with a shot to the body

and Kaunismieli counters by clinching up.
Raven is looking for a takedown.
Kaunismieli tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Raven's elbow.
A right hook to the body lands for Raven.
Raven blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Raven working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Raven.
Raven stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Kaunismieli prevents a body shot from Raven.
Raven struggles to land a body shot inside as Kaunismieli controls his hands.
Kaunismieli has a couple of punches blocked by Raven.

Raven breaks from the clinch.
Kaunismieli slips a straight right by Raven.
A big right from Kaunismieli misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Raven scores with a sloppy right hand. Kaunismieli should have avoided that one.
Kaunismieli throws a predictable looking body shot
letting Raven counter with a right hand.

Raven fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Kaunismieli to the ground. Raven is now in Kaunismieli's guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Raven avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Raven in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Raven works over Kaunismieli with some ground and pound from guard.
Raven looking to sit in guard and control but Kaunismieli gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Raven working for submissions but it's allowed Kaunismieli to get to half guard.
Raven is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Kaunismieli scores with a couple of nice shots.
Raven trying to control here.
Raven is working for an escape here. He's hooked one of Kaunismieli's legs and he's managed to sneak out and take Kaunismieli's back!
Raven scores with strikes from the back.
Kaunismieli is trying to escape under a series of strikes and manages to escape from Raven 's hooks.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kaunismieli in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Kaunismieli tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Kaunismieli wants to hold on but Raven pushes him away.
Kaunismieli is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Raven unloading with bombs!
Kaunismieli taking shots to the head.
Kaunismieli is trying desperately to improve position.
Raven scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Raven breaks from Kaunismieli's wrist control and lands an elbow.

Kaunismieli is rocked!
Raven looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Kaunismieli covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Thomas Raven!
A pretty intense looking Thomas Raven took the opportunity post-fight to ask for a shot at the title.