PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Hemmo Partanen (ranked 1997 p4p, 3843 weight class) and Alejandro Martinez (ranked 279 p4p, 485 weight class). Alejandro Martinez struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 187.0lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Partanen
vs
Martinez

189 cm
26
195
5 - 2 - 0

170 cm
18
200
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Hemmo Partanen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Alejandro Martinez!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, David Hoff and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Martinez on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Nice cross by Partanen.
Partanen connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
A lazy body kick from Martinez
and Partanen cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

It looks like Alejandro Martinez has been cut.

Partanen drops Martinez with a hook right on the temple. He thinks about going to the ground but Martinez looks back up at him and smiles so Partanen waves him back to his feet - he obviously thinks he can knock him out after that shot landed.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Nice cross by Partanen.

Martinez is rocked!
Martinez on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Partanen steps in with a hook that catches Martinez right on the chin and knocks him to the floor! Partanen follows him down with more strikes and that's all she wrote! Martinez looks absolutely devastated.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hemmo Partanen!
The defeated Alejandro Martinez had this to say: 'enojado'.