PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kotetsu Yamamoto (ranked 927 p4p, 106 weight class) and Chris Deal (ranked 1312 p4p, 147 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Yamamoto
vs
Deal

168 cm
34
149 lbs
27 - 15 - 3

178 cm
32
155 lbs
17 - 13 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class MT
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
World class MT
Granite 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 27 - 15 - 3, fighting out of New York, Kotetsu Yamamoto!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 13 - 0, fighting out of New York, Chris Deal!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Frank Antenori and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Deal slips under a jab from Yamamoto.
Deal is looking to clinch.
Deal keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Yamamoto.
Yamamoto misses the shot to the body.
Deal tries to clinch up.

Yamamoto scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Yamamoto cracks Deal with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Deal is pushing Yamamoto's head away, looking to escape. Yamamoto manages to hold on to the position though.
Yamamoto wants to control but Deal is keeping him busy.
Deal is trying to get back to his feet.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Yamamoto advances to mount.
Yamamoto has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Deal's face.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yamamoto lands a big elbow.
Yamamoto fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Yamamoto raining down hammerfists from mount.
Yamamoto lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Yamamoto unloading with bombs!
Yamamoto with the ground and pound from mount.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Deal can do anything to dispel that myth.
Yamamoto is landing with some decent strikes but Deal is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Yamamoto looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yamamoto fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Yamamoto lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Deal hang on?
Deal taking shots to the head.

Deal is rocked!
Yamamoto lands a nice shot to the head.
Deal is still in real trouble! Can Yamamoto finish him?
Yamamoto scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Yamamoto lands a big shot to the head and Deal winces in pain. He's tapped out due to strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Kotetsu Yamamoto!
Our winner, Kotetsu Yamamoto, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.