PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Gennady Golovkin (ranked 6163 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nazim Bardakci (ranked 6426 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Bardakci's choice of entrance music: Edis - Çok Çok. Golovkin has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Nazim Bardakci has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Gennady Golovkin's chin.

Golovkin
vs
Bardakci

179 cm
20
161 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

177 cm
18
165 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Inexperienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Gennady Golovkin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Nazim Bardakci!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Igor Prikhodko and Dmitry Maklakov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Golovkin throws a combination that misses

and Bardakci counters with a shoot takedown. Golovkin fights it but they end up in guard.
Golovkin is breathing heavily.
Bardakci is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Bardakci passes easily into side control. Nice work.

Bardakci has hold of Golovkin's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Golovkin tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Bardakci cranks the arm and Golovkin screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Golovkin, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Nazim Bardakci!
Nazim Bardakci decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.