PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brendan Kruger (ranked 5729 p4p, 5552 weight class) and Kuroki Gensai (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kuroki Gensai is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Kruger
vs
Gensai

189 cm
26
205
3 - 1 - 0

185 cm
25
200
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Brendan Kruger !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kuroki Gensai!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Shigeki Fujiwara and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kruger looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Gensai is fending him off so far but Kruger persists. Nope, Gensai circles away and we're back to standing.
Gensai steps in looking to clinch after the strikes miss from Kruger .

Gensai shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Kruger is trying to stand back up but Gensai is controlling him
Gensai trying to control the action but Kruger is working from the bottom.

Kruger actively working from the bottom here.
Gensai is trying to get back to his feet now but his leg is trapped.

Kruger looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Kruger moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

Kruger is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Gensai defends well.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Gensai wants to stand up, so he's looking to wriggle free of Kruger 's closed guard. He's half up but Kruger has locked on to an arm! Uh oh! Kruger pivots and extends the arm, Gensai falls face first to the mat and taps??... does he?? YES! He's tapping! Excellent counter grappling there by Kruger ! Well done that man!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Brendan Kruger !
Brendan Kruger decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.