PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Tom Bickle (ranked 1720 p4p, 1792 weight class) and Antonio Zetsika (ranked 184 p4p, 195 weight class). Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Antonio Zetsika enters the cage!

Bickle
vs
Zetsika

175 cm
28
146
3 - 4 - 0

177 cm
36
146
15 - 13 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Tom Bickle!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Antonio Zetsika!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bickle fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Zetsika closes this distance looking for a takedown but Bickle circles away.
Zetsika shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Bickle sprawls well. Bickle wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Zetsika gets slowly back to his feet.
Bickle loads up on a big right hand but Zetsika slips the punch.
Zetsika changes levels for a counter takedown but doesn't follow through with his attempt.
Zetsika has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Zetsika misses with a takedown attempt
and Bickle cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Tom Bickle has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Antonio Zetsika.
Zetsika throws a predictable looking body shot
enabling Bickle to counter with a crisp jab.

Zetsika shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Bickle napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Bickle is trying to get back to his feet.
Bickle tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Zetsika wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Zetsika tries to score with some ground and pound. Bickle controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.

Zetsika looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zetsika looks up at the clock and then as Bickle takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Zetsika smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!

Zetsika in side control, working for a kimura. He's got hold of an arm and he's torquing it... Bickle is tapping! That's the end of the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Antonio Zetsika!