PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Chris Poirier (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kong Su han (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Su han comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Enter Sandman kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Poirier
vs
Su han

175 cm
21
159 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

168 cm
21
151 lbs
3 - 3 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Chris Poirier!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Kong Su han!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Left hook, right uppercut from Poirier.
No joy there for Poirier, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
The fight stays on the outside here - Su han looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Su han throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.
Su han fails with an attempt to clinch.
Poirier misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Su han tries to clinch up but Poirier circles away and keeps his distance.
Chris Poirier seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Poirier throws a nice looking combination but Su han bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Poirier lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Poirier misses with a double jab.
Poirier rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Su han moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Poirier looks to land a left hand but Su han moved out of range nicely.
Poirier throws a shot from downtown. Su han moves away and avoids it.
Poirier swats away the attempt to clinch by Su han.
Poirier throws a right hand that Su han ducks under and follows up with a left that Su han also avoids with ease.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Poirier throws a jab but it's blocked by Su han.
Su han displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Poirier throws out the jab.
Su han keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Poirier circles away from the clinch attempt.

Su han takes the fight into the clinch.
Poirier has had enough of the clinch but Su han keeps him there for the moment.
Su han landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Su han lands an elbow inside.

It looks like Chris Poirier has been cut.
Nice elbow from Su han.
Poirier can't break the clinch.
Su han lands an elbow inside that Poirier shrugs off.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Su han just misses with a elbow thrown towards Poirier's brow.
Su han lands a damaging elbow.
Su han throws an elbow but it misses.
Su han lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

Chris Poirier's cut is getting worse.
Su han pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Poirier blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Su han gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Su han keeps control of Poirier as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Su han pushes off an throws an elbow but Poirier leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Su han throws an elbow but it misses.
Su han crunches a lovely knee into Poirier's ribcage.
Poirier is breathing heavily.
Su han lands an elbow inside that Poirier shrugs off.
Su han lands an elbow inside that Poirier shrugs off.

Chris Poirier's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Su han misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Poirier.
Su han lands a nice elbow.
Su han lands a damaging elbow.

Jeez, Chris Poirier's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.
Su han lands an elbow inside.
Su han throws an elbow that misses.
Su han gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Poirier is looking to break free of the clinch but Su han has double underhooks.
Su han comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Chris Poirier's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Kong Su han!