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Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Joonas Saarinen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Samu Voutilainen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Voutilainen has chosen Girls wanna have fun as his entrance music. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.
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165 lbs
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180 cm
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160 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily |
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BJJ Blue Belt
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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
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Joonas Saarinen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Samu Voutilainen!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Vladimir Khabensky and Sergei Dronov.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Voutilainen throws a head kick that misses.
The fight stays on the outside here - Voutilainen looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Saarinen tries to clinch there but Voutilainen circles away.
Saarinen tries to clinch but Voutilainen moves out of range.
Saarinen looks to clinch
and Voutilainen counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Voutilainen.
Saarinen wants to stand and escape but Voutilainen is having none of it.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Saarinen throwing some rather feeble looking strikes off his back.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Voutilainen stands up over Saarinen, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Saarinen is rocked!
It looks like Joonas Saarinen has been cut.
Saarinen keeping full guard, as Voutilainen tries to pass.
Oh Saarinen is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Saarinen trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Voutilainen passes Saarinen's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
Saarinen seems to have got his legs back now.
Saarinen is defending against the submission attempts here by Voutilainen.
Saarinen regains full guard. Nicely done.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Voutilainen stops Saarinen from standing up.
Voutilainen preventing the sweep.
Saarinen is working hard here to advance position.
Voutilainen wants to stand but Saarinen is controlling his posture from full guard.
Voutilainen stands up over Saarinen, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Voutilainen is standing up over Saarinen. Saarinen looks to escape but Voutilainen dives into side control.
Voutilainen tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Voutilainen has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Saarinen is looking for a sweep.
Saarinen wants to get back to his feet but Voutilainen drags him back down.
Saarinen is breathing heavily.
Voutilainen tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Voutilainen has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Saarinen is trying to get back to half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Saarinen is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Saarinen tries to strike but it doesn't land.
Saarinen gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Saarinen gets back to full guard.
Voutilainen wants to pass the guard but Saarinen is keeping the position.
Saarinen looking for a sweep. Not yet Saarinen, not yet.
Voutilainen won't allow Saarinen to get back to his feet.
Voutilainen must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Voutilainen keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Saarinen's head.
Voutilainen preventing the sweep.
Saarinen wants to stand up but Voutilainen is controlling him.
Saarinen will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Saarinen fails with the takedown.
Samu Voutilainen seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Saarinen throws a nice head kick!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Saarinen closes the distance and clinches.
Saarinen connects with a nasty looking knee right to Voutilainen's face.
Saarinen misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Voutilainen.
Saarinen throws a knee to the head but misses.
A knee to the head by Saarinen.
Saarinen stops a takedown attempt from Voutilainen.
Voutilainen blocks an elbow strike from Saarinen.
Saarinen manages to break the clinch.
Saarinen tries to clinch up
and Voutilainen counters by moving into the clinch.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Saarinen lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Voutilainen tries to pull guard but Saarinen holds him up against the cage and eventually Voutilainen drops back down to his feet.
Saarinen slows down the pace here.
Saarinen blocks the elbow strike.
Saarinen throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Saarinen gets underhooks to prevent Voutilainen's takedown attempt.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Samu Voutilainen dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Joonas Saarinen's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.
Saarinen takes the fight into the clinch.
Saarinen avoiding damage as Voutilainen throws knees to the body.
Saarinen successfully pulls guard.
Saarinen wants to get back to his feet but Voutilainen is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Saarinen looking for a sweep. Not yet Saarinen, not yet.
Saarinen pushes Voutilainen off and scrambles back to his feet.
Saarinen fails to land with a series of punches.
Voutilainen with a poor takedown
and Saarinen counters by moving into the clinch.
Saarinen tries to land knees in the clinch but Voutilainen avoids the damage to the body.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Voutilainen goes for a takedown in the clinch but Saarinen prevents it.
Voutilainen is breathing heavily.
With the fighters up against the cage, Saarinen throws an elbow but misses.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Voutilainen.
Saarinen landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Saarinen lands an elbow just above Voutilainen 's eye.
Saarinen misses with an elbow over the top.
Voutilainen wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Saarinen looking for a takedown.
Saarinen struggles to land a body shot inside as Voutilainen controls his hands.
Saarinen taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Voutilainen tries for a takedown but Saarinen manages to get underhooks.
Joonas Saarinen has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Samu Voutilainen.
Saarinen lands with a short head shot on the inside.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Voutilainen prevents Saarinen from breaking the clinch.
Saarinen prevents a takedown attempt there.
Voutilainen drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Saarinen gets the underhooks and prevents it.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Saarinen.
Saarinen using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Voutilainen wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Saarinen breaks the clinch.
Saarinen clinches.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Saarinen lands a knee to the body.
Saarinen drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Saarinen gets double underhooks and manages to take the fight to the ground.
Voutilainen looking for a guillotine here but Saarinen defends easily.
Saarinen scoring with some ground and pound.
Saarinen gets to his feet. Voutilainen looking to butt scoot but the ref puts an end to that. On your feet son!
Saarinen displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Voutilainen drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
Voutilainen in side control, just content to control the action for now.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Voutilainen looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Voutilainen moves into full mount!
Voutilainen working for a guillotine from mount but Saarinen is in no mood to give up.
Voutilainen wants to control the pace but Saarinen is squirming around nicely.
Saarinen tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Voutilainen putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Saarinen in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Saarinen has left one of his arms exposed and Voutilainen doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Saarinen screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Samu Voutilainen!
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hype
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pop
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