PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Marcel Bruder (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Erik Janda (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Janda is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Harper Lewis. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Bruder
vs
Janda

165 cm
22
165 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

178 cm
26
165 lbs
10 - 2 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Marcel Bruder!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 2 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Erik Janda!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bruder throws a sloppy head kick and Janda moves out of range easily.
Janda misses with a few strikes there.
Bruder is looking to clinch.

Bruder tries to keep at a distance but Janda has taken the fight into the clinch.
Janda wants to break free but Bruder has control.
Still in the clinch, Bruder scores with a nice short uppercut.
Bruder tries to land knees in the clinch but Janda avoids the damage to the body.
Bruder scores with a hook to the body.
Bruder keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Janda's efforts to push away.
Janda on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Janda tries to break free but Bruder pushes him back against the cage.
Bruder works on Janda's body with a couple of short punches.
Bruder scores with a nice hook to the head.
Janda wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Bruder lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Bruder lands a body shot in the clinch.
Bruder works on Janda's body with a couple of short punches.
A frustrated look appears on Janda's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Janda blocks an uppercut.
Bruder softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Bruder misses with a punch on the inside.
Bruder scores with a shoulder strike.
Bruder misses with a knee to the head.
Bruder lands a left hand.
Janda is looking to break free of the clinch but Bruder has double underhooks.
Bruder scores with a hook to the body.
Janda looks gassed!
Bruder scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Bruder tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bruder lands a nice uppercut.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Bruder.
Bruder scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Janda is trying to force a seperation but Bruder has the dominant position.
Bruder keeps control of Janda as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Bruder lands a shoulder strike.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Janda.

Janda escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Bruder tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Janda counters with a good, hard body kick but Bruder shrugs it off.
Bruder on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Bruder misses with a body shot
and Janda counters with a nice body kick.
Marcel Bruder seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Bruder lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Janda at a distance.
Bruder tries to close the distance and clinch but Janda swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
A clash of legs there as Janda blocks the low kick.
A combination from Bruder does no damage.
Bruder shoots in for a takedown but Janda shows good takedown defense.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bruder tries to clinch up but Janda circles away and keeps his distance.
Bruder on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Janda. Janda obviously looking to wear him down.
Janda throws a head kick that misses.
Janda lands a head kick. Bruder smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
Bruder takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Bruder looks to land a combination but Janda avoids it well.
Bruder tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Janda was well out of range. Poor timing from Bruder.
Bruder pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Janda scores with a crisp jab that stopped Bruder in his tracks.
Bruder misses the body punch
and Janda counters with a flying knee. Nice.

Janda moves into range and clinches up with Bruder.
A frustrated look appears on Janda's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Janda working hard to break the clinch.
Bruder lands a body shot in the clinch.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Janda wants to get back to striking at distance but Bruder won't allow it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bruder lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Janda backwards.
Janda wants to break free but Bruder has control.
Janda tries to break free but Bruder pushes him back against the cage.

Janda breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Bruder moves in looking to clinch but Janda pushes him off.
Bruder throws a leg kick that is checked
and Janda counters with a solid body kick.
Bruder throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Janda slips under a jab.
Bruder thows a body shot but no joy.
Bruder has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Janda.
Janda circles away from the clinch attempt
and Janda counters with an outside leg kick.
Janda feints and then cracks Bruder's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Bruder down.
Bruder misses with the combination.
Janda scores with a spinning back kick!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Janda throws a head kick but Bruder moves out of range.
Bruder chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Janda can pounce on him.
Bruder misses with a jab to the body
and Janda makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Bruder really felt that one!

Bruder closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Janda blocks an uppercut.

Janda's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Janda lands with a kick to the temple. Bruder shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Bruder throws a series of punches but Janda avoids them all with ease.
Janda scoring well with a low kick there.
Bruder tries to clinch but Janda moves away
and Janda counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Janda lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Bruder thows a leg kick but Janda checks it
and Janda counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Bruder is lucky that one didn't land flush.
Bruder is looking to wear down Janda with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Bruder throws a left and a right that both miss
and Janda counters with a good low kick that Bruder was not able to check.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Marcel Bruder dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Janda throws a nice head kick!
Janda feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Bruder's calf.
Bruder misses with a body shot
and Janda counters with a nice body kick.
Bruder misses with a leg kick

and Janda counters by moving into the clinch.

Janda pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
A shot to the liver by Janda. Beautiful body shot.
Bruder closes the distance looking to clinch
and Janda counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Bruder is lucky that one didn't land flush.
Bruder tries for a takedown but Janda sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.

Janda takes the fight into the clinch.
Bruder is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Janda is trying to push Bruder away but Bruder has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Janda working hard to break the clinch.
A short right from Bruder.
Bruder misses with a short punch on the inside.
Janda is trying to force a seperation but Bruder has the dominant position.
Bruder misses with a short punch on the inside.
Bruder misses with a shot to the kidneys.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Janda's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Nice body kick there by Janda.
Bruder on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Bruder misses with a hook.
A slapping body kick lands there for Janda.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Janda scores with a push kick.
Janda fails in his attempt to clinch.
Bruder darts in trying to clinch
and Janda counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Janda blocks a jab.
Janda lands a nice looking body kick.
Bruder swings for the body but Janda moves out of range.
A nice leg kick lands there from Janda.
Janda throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bruder is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Janda.
Bruder looks to clinch
and Janda counters with a thumping low kick.
Bruder takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Bruder takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Bruder throws a left and a right that both miss
and Janda counters with a head kick.
Janda lands a head kick!
Bruder takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Bruder fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Janda manages to avoid it.
Bruder wants to clinch but Janda slips to the side
and Janda counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Janda scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Bruder doesn't seem bothered though.
Bruder darts in trying to clinch
and Janda counters with a big head kick but Bruder shrugs it off.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A solid leg kick lands there for Janda.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Janda - that will leave a mark!
Bruder lands a nice shot that snaps Janda's head back.
Janda throws a head kick that misses.
Janda circles away from the clinch attempt
and Janda counters with a nice body kick.
A nice leg kick lands there from Janda.
Janda lands with a nice body kick.
Bruder looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Bruder shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Janda defends it nicely.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Janda throws a nice outside leg kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Janda throws a front kick that sends Bruder stumbling back into the cage.
Marcel Bruder is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Janda throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Janda throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

Janda has closed the distance and engaged Bruder in a clinch.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Bruder creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Bruder lands with a right to the head.
Bruder tries a body shot but Janda blocks it.

Janda escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Janda lands a leg kick that knocks Bruder off balance momentarily.
Erik Janda seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Bruder has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Janda.
Janda lands a nice leg kick that just misses Bruder's sensitive parts.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Bruder takes a kick to the side of the head.
Janda lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Janda ducks under a wild hook from Bruder.
Bruder will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.
Bruder tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Janda counters with a solid body kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Erik Janda showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!

Janda lands with a kick to the ribs.
Bruder misses with a few strikes there.
Janda tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Bruder paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Janda throws a head kick that half lands.
Bruder looks to land a combination but Janda avoids it well.
Bruder misses with a combination
and Janda counters with a head kick. That will keep Bruder thinking before he tries any more sloppy attacks!

Bruder is rocked!
Bruder drops his hands momentarily. Janda doesn't need a second invitation, landing a shot to the temple. Bruder staggers and falls to the mat and the ref dives in to save him from any more punishment. Bruder doesn't seem happy with the stoppage but he was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:35 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Erik Janda!