PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Haru Tanaka (ranked 5684 p4p, 3961 weight class) and Vik Diek (ranked 0 p4p, 418 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Tanaka
vs
Diek

169 cm
25
153
1 - 2 - 0

171 cm
18
154
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Self confident

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Very confident

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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Haru Tanaka!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Vik Diek!
The judges for this bout are Hirohito Nitta, Shigeki Fujiwara and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Diek closes the distance and scores a nice trip takedown into half guard. Tanaka did well to prevent Diek getting side control.
Tanaka is staying active underneath Diek, who seems content to just control the action from this position.

Diek is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Tanaka knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Diek on the ground.
Tanaka is staying active underneath Diek, who seems content to just control the action from this position.

Diek is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.

Diek seems like he's working for an arm triangle here. He's freed his trapped foot and he's rotating nicely. Tanaka is in big trouble! He's tapping out! This one is aaaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Vik Diek!