PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brendan Ward (ranked 5238 p4p, 2399 weight class) and Kambei Shimada (ranked 565 p4p, 315 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Shimada's choice of entrance music: Seven Samurai. This should be a great matchup!

Ward
vs
Shimada

189 cm
25
205
1 - 1 - 0

195 cm
27
215
7 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
Great elbows
Granite 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 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Brendan Ward!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Kambei Shimada!
The judges for this bout are Eliza Hachem, Winston Howard and Donatello Bradman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shimada works Ward's body with a nice hook.
Shimada lands an overhand right.
Ward gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Ward closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Shimada lunges at Ward with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Ward's hand.
Ward throws a combination that misses
and Shimada counters with a nice uppercut.
Ward misses with a takedown attempt

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

Ward is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Shimada moves in close and cracks Ward with a massive right hand! Ward, frozen momentarily in time, tumbles to the canvas, already out cold! A brutal knockout by Shimada!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Kambei Shimada!
Kambei Shimada took his opportunity to call for a title shot in his post fight interview.