PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Krystian Soszynski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and He Mu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Soszynski comes to the ring accompanied by Sabaton - 40 : 1. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Soszynski
vs
Mu

188 cm
22
207 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

190 cm
21
215 lbs
7 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

RAGS of a RONIN

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Krystian Soszynski!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, He Mu!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Shigeki Sano and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Soszynski needs to keep his hands up - Mu had a free shot at his head there.
Mu misses with a hook. Soszynski ducked under it nicely.
Soszynski lands a nice leg kick that just misses Mu's sensitive parts.
Mu misses with a hook to the body
and Soszynski counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Mu throws a low kick, looking for Soszynski's leg but Soszynski calmly moves out of range.
It looked like Soszynski wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Soszynski fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Mu.
Soszynski lands a nice leg kick that just misses Mu's sensitive parts.
Soszynski seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Soszynski scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Mu stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Soszynski.
Mu has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Mu scores with a leg kick.
Mu throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Mu will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Mu scores with a punch to the head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Mu misses with a shot to the body
and Soszynski counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

It looks like He Mu has been cut.
Mu dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Soszynski. That did some damage!
Soszynski wants to land a leg kick but Mu is out of range.
Mu blocks the body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Soszynski, right into the meat.
A looping hook to the body misses from Mu. Soszynski does a little dance to reset his feet.
Soszynski lands with a right hand.
A jab from Mu finds it's way through Soszynski's defenses.
Mu misses with a jab, cross combination.
Mu on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Nice jab there from Soszynski.

Mu is rocked!
Soszynski lunges in with a left hook that violently twists Mu head around and knocks him out cold! Soszynski hops onto the ropes and yells out at the top of his lungs - Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah! They're showing the replay on the big screens now; that was nasty! I hope one of the photographers got a good shot of it.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Krystian Soszynski!
Krystian Soszynski retains his light heavyweight title!
Krystian Soszynski seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.