PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Israel Adesanya (ranked 1961 p4p, 1818 weight class) and Roelof Gerritzen (ranked 259 p4p, 242 weight class). Adesanya comes to the cage accompanied by Israel Adesanya Entrance Music. Israel Adesanya has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Adesanya
vs
Gerritzen

193 cm
22
184
8 - 3 - 0

178 cm
28
174
5 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Next Gen Sports

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Israel Adesanya!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Roelof Gerritzen!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Trevor Gratis and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A left and a right from Gerritzen both land. Nice combination.
Adesanya misses with a wild combination.
Nice sprawl there from Adesanya as Gerritzen shoots in.
Gerritzen misses with a series of wild punches.
Adesanya misses the jab.
Adesanya ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Adesanya scores with a head kick.
Gerritzen takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Gerritzen uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Adesanya.
We've been told by Adesanya's head coaches at Hilo MMA that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Adesanya throws a jab but it's blocked by Gerritzen.
Adesanya throws a series of punches but Gerritzen moves out of range.
Gerritzen avoids a punch combination nicely.
Israel Adesanya is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Gerritzen moves away from the strike by Adesanya.
Gerritzen feints the counter takedown.
Adesanya lets loose with a powerful body kick. Gerritzen will feel that in the morning.
Adesanya shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Gerritzen eats them both and turns towards Adesanya to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.

Gerritzen is rocked!
Gerritzen get stunned by a cross and takes another one on the button. Gerritzen stumbles backwards and tries to bounce back off the cage but Adesanya runs in and jumps on him with a leaping lead hook that puts him out! Wow, that was highlight reel stuff! Awesome finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Israel Adesanya!
Israel Adesanya took to the mic in his post fight interview and said 'We love a good one out. We love a good fight. This is part of the culture. Straight up. We’re a country of a warrior race, the Maori. This is part of our culture. If a fight broke out right now, what would you all do? You’d ignore me and you’d watch the fight. It’s in our DNA.'.