PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Jon Paul (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Finnish Experiment Il (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Paul comes to the cage accompanied by Worth the Pain. Jon Paul has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Paul
vs
Experiment Il

187 cm
25
153 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

175 cm
18
148 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jon Paul!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Finnish Experiment Il!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Johanna Lukiainen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Paul closes the distance and clinches.
Experiment Il misses with a punch on the inside.
Paul lands a knee to the head.

Paul breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

Experiment Il darts in and clinches Paul up against the cage.
Experiment Il misses with a punch on the inside.
A short body shot lands from Paul as the two fighters clinch.

Paul breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Paul tries to clinch there but Experiment Il circles away.
It seemed like Experiment Il was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Paul shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Experiment Il as he avoids it easily.
We've been hearing reports that Paul has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
Experiment Il connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Paul's hands.
Paul moves in looking to clinch but Experiment Il pushes him off.
Paul shoots in for a double leg but Experiment Il sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
Paul throws a head kick that misses.
Paul walks into a stiff left hand from Experiment Il.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

Paul closes the distance and clinches.

Paul manages to break the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Experiment Il connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Paul momentarily.
Paul takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Paul is looking to clinch.
Paul tries to close the distance and clinch up but Experiment Il swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Experiment Il dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
The fight stays on the outside here - Paul looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Experiment Il drops Paul with a big left hand! Paul is injured, injured bad! Experiment Il jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Finnish Experiment Il!