PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Eero Jukola (ranked 3240 p4p, 4237 weight class) and Brooke Marsden (ranked 398 p4p, 469 weight class). Marsden has chosen Lunatic Fringe as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Jukola
vs
Marsden

165 cm
37
148
22 - 13 - 1

170 cm
32
143
15 - 16 - 1

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Granite chin

Fantasy Threads

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 13 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Eero Jukola!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 16 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Brooke Marsden!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Kenichi Hosakawa and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Donk. Jukola catches Marsden right on the button with a cross.
Jukola gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Jukola moves forwards but Marsden connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Jukola pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
A chopping leg kick lands by Jukola.
Marsden takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Jukola will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Jukola has been working on his boxing with his coaches at The Hidden in the buildup to the fight.
Jukola throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Marsden clinches.
Marsden tries to circle away but Jukola has him pinned against the cage.
Jukola misses with some punches.
Still in the clinch, Jukola scores with a nice short uppercut.
A nice left hand lands by Jukola.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jukola avoids the elbow strike from Marsden, against the cage.
Jukola throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Marsden blocks it with crossed arms.
A nice left hand lands by Marsden.
Marsden prevents a body shot from Jukola.
Marsden blocking some punches.
Jukola digs a right hand underneath Marsden's ribcage. Marsden let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Marsden throws a head punch that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A nice left hand lands by Jukola.
A short right from Jukola on the inside.

Marsden escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Marsden pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Jukola dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
The fight stays on the outside here - Marsden looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Jukola takes the fight into the clinch.
Marsden prevents a body shot from Jukola.
Marsden struggles to land a body shot inside as Jukola controls his hands.
Jukola tries to throw a body punch but Marsden avoids it by throwing Jukola back against the cage.
Jukola lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Marsden looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Jukola prevents Marsden from breaking the clinch.
Jukola stalling in the clinch.
Jukola lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Jukola avoids the elbow strike from Marsden, against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Marsden blocking some punches.
Jukola lands a left hand that snaps the head of Marsden backwards.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Marsden misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Jukola working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Marsden scores with a shoulder strike.
Marsden blocks a body shot from Jukola.
Jukola lands with a left to the head.
Jukola is working Marsden over against the cage.

Jukola breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Jukola throws a solid leg kick but Marsden takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Jukola.
Jukola slips under a jab from Marsden.
Jukola misses with a right hand
and Marsden counters with a nice leg kick.
Marsden lands a head shot.
Marsden misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Jukola.
Marsden throws a low kick, looking for Jukola's leg but Jukola calmly moves out of range.
Jukola moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Jukola lands a jab to the nose.
Some bone on bone action there as Marsden checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Jukola cracks a nice hook into Marsden's ribs.
Jukola with the inside leg kick.

Jukola changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Marsden looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Jukola tries to score with some ground and pound. Marsden controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.
Marsden is working to avoid the ground and pound but Jukola connects with a decent elbow.
Marsden parries the strikes from Jukola easily there. Jukola is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Marsden to escape.
Marsden looking for a sweep but Jukola has passed into full mount! Oh no!
Jukola lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Jukola fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Jukola lands a couple of good shots and Marsden has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Jukola lands a shot to the body.
Jukola landing with strikes.

Marsden is rocked!
Marsden is trying to remain composed but Jukola is hammering down strikes to the side of his head.
Marsden is still in real trouble! Can Jukola finish him?

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Jukola is scoring with a succession of shots from the back. Marsden is covering up - he's had enough and the ref steps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Eero Jukola!
A relieved looking Eero Jukola thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.