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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Aoi Tanu (ranked 6321 p4p, 5811 weight class) and Jakob Sondergaard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Aoi Tanu looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.
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BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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Good takedowns
Brawler
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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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Aoi Tanu!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jakob Sondergaard!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Anni Minnemäki.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sondergaard avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Sondergaard is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Sondergaard gets a double leg takedown into Tanu's guard.
Tanu has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but Sondergaard has passed into side control.
Tanu is trying to improve his position.
Tanu is working hard here to advance position.
Tanu regains half guard.
Sondergaard is thwarting Tanu's attempts to control the position.
Sondergaard is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Tanu sees it coming and defends easily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sondergaard wants to control but Tanu is keeping him busy.
Tanu wants to control but Sondergaard is keeping busy and won't allow it.
Sondergaard is trying to control the action in half guard but Tanu is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Sondergaard prevents Tanu from improving his position.
Tanu is refusing to be controlled, as Sondergaard sits in half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sondergaard slows the pace down in half guard.
Sondergaard is pressing down on Tanu's thigh, looking to free his foot. Tanu is holding on for now.
Sondergaard has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Tanu defend it? Sondergaard steps over the head and cranks it - Tanu is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for Sondergaard!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Jakob Sondergaard!
Jakob Sondergaard decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
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