PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Clay Hayden (ranked 3057 p4p, 1566 weight class) and Joakim Johansson (ranked 379 p4p, 212 weight class). Johansson has chosen Scarlet - Hail the apocalypse as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. This should be fireworks!

Hayden
vs
Johansson

174 cm
30
159
6 - 6 - 0

180 cm
22
160
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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 6 - 6 - 0, fighting out of London, Clay Hayden!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Joakim Johansson!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Jorge Garcia and Alyssa Summers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hayden misses with a takedown
enabling Johansson to counter with a crisp jab.
Johansson looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Johansson misses with a left hand
and Hayden counters with a low kick, right behind Johansson 's knee.
Hayden definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Johansson throws a good cross that connects.
Johansson throws a hook but Hayden blocks it.
Hayden appeared to be looking to counter that last move with a leg kick.
Hayden misses the shot to the body.
Johansson throws a counter combo.
Hayden scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hayden misses with an uppercut
and Johansson counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Hayden thinking.
Hayden misses with a telegraphed body shot

and Johansson counters with a nice right hand that sends Hayden toppling to the canvas! Hayden scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Johansson finish him?!

Hayden is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hayden dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Johansson. That did some damage!
Oh Hayden is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johansson takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Nice body kick from Hayden.
Hayden misses with a straight left.
Johansson punishes Hayden's body with a nice straight punch.
Johansson walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Hayden drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Johansson swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Hayden's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Joakim Johansson!
Joakim Johansson tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.