PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Chang Walsh (ranked 25302 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kenny Rose (ranked 5660 p4p, 0 weight class). Kenny Rose has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Walsh
vs
Rose

200 cm
18
150 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

180 cm
25
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Tends to cut

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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Chang Walsh!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kenny Rose!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Taro Takaoka and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rose scores with a slapping inside leg kick.

Rose has closed the distance and engaged Walsh in a clinch.

Rose pulls guard successfully.
Rose looking to control the pace of the fight rather than finish it.
Walsh prevents Rose from getting back to his feet.
Rose has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.
Rose keeping moving, preventing Walsh from controlling successfully.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Walsh won't allow Rose to get back to his feet.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Rose holds on and takes a little breather.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

Rose shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Rose was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Walsh is looking for a sweep.

Rose stands up and we're back to a striking position.

Rose bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Walsh defending against the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The strikes coming from Rose are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
Walsh parries the strikes from Rose easily there. Rose is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Walsh to escape.

Rose has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.
Walsh misses with the body kick
and Rose counters with a left and a right that stings Walsh.

Walsh is rocked!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Rose.
Oh Walsh is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Rose is looking for a takedown. Wow, that's a brutal slam - Walsh is in big trouble! Rose is landing strikes from the mount and this one is all over! The ref jumps in to save a confused looking Walsh. Poor guy.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Slam). Kenny Rose!