PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joey Faolin (ranked 93 p4p, 118 weight class) and Karl Karjalainen (ranked 15 p4p, 17 weight class). Faolin comes to the cage accompanied by It Ain’t a Crime by House of Pain. Karl Karjalainen has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Joey Faolin's chin.

Faolin
vs
Karjalainen

185 cm
29
215
20 - 9 - 0

187 cm
36
211
19 - 9 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Joey Faolin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 9 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Karl Karjalainen!
The judges for this bout are Hirohito Nitta, Shigeki Sano and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Karjalainen looks to land a left hand but Faolin moved out of range nicely.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Karjalainen.

Karjalainen sends Faolin crashing to the mat with a devastating uppercut! Karjalainen is motioning to the referee to let Faolin up. He wants to try and finish this one on the feet!

It looks like Joey Faolin has been cut.
Faolin scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Karjalainen cracks Faolin with a hook to the temple - Faolin is on wobbly legs here! Karjalainen swarms him with hook after hook, landing with each one! Faolin falls to the canvas face first and the referee dives in to stop the fight! Karjalainen wins by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Karl Karjalainen!
Karl Karjalainen was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.