PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Paavo Talvela (ranked 359 p4p, 386 weight class) and Julian Avila (ranked 50 p4p, 58 weight class). Talvela kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is For Heavy Metal we will die!. Paavo Talvela is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Talvela
vs
Avila

178 cm
32
175
23 - 11 - 0

177 cm
27
180
15 - 10 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

NARCOS

Conviction
30th Century Beer Store

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 23 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Paavo Talvela!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 15 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Julian Avila!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Shirou Masuda and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Talvela gets the takedown into side control.
Avila struggling a bit here.
Talvela tries to score with some ground and pound. Avila controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.
Avila dodges the ground and pound from Talvela.
Avila looks to move to half guard but instead Talvela has passed into mount! Damn!
Talvela lands a heavy elbow.
Avila holds on to Talvela as tight as he can, avoiding damage.
Talvela landing punches.
Talvela sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Talvela lands a heavy elbow.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Talvela fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Avila really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Talvela. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Avila wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Talvela.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Talvela unloads with some shots from mount but Avila bucks and avoids them well.
Talvela throwing strikes here but Avila is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Avila is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Avila is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Avila is squirming around, avoiding Talvela's attempts to control the action.
Avila tries to hold on but Talvela pushes him away.
Talvela unloads with some shots from mount but Avila bucks and avoids them well.
Avila can't escape the position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Talvela thowing shots but they're missing.
Talvela putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Talvela looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Talvela unloading with bombs!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Talvela loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Avila scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Talvela land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Talvela stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Paavo Talvela!
A very excited looking Paavo Talvela rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.