PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Tuomas Murtomaki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason McGully (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Murtomaki
vs
McGully

170 cm
25
150 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

200 cm
24
138 lbs
6 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Steel Terror-Trition: Video Proven 160Q
Steel Terror-Trition: Video Proven 160Q

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 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Tuomas Murtomaki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jason McGully!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Marco Blurström and Tarja Halkonen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
McGully throws a leg kick that misses.
Murtomaki looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Murtomaki misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
McGully swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
McGully swinging wildly here.

Murtomaki closes the distance and pushes McGully back into the cage.
McGully has hold of a leg and is looking for a trip takedown. Murtomaki avoids it nicely though and we remain in the clinch.
McGully is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.

McGully breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
McGully misses with a jab, cross combination.
McGully keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
McGully looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Murtomaki throws a left and a right that both miss
and McGully counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Murtomaki thinking.
McGully avoids a punch combination nicely.
Murtomaki fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Murtomaki ducks down and throws a hook to the body but McGully moves away.
Murtomaki keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
McGully throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McGully showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Murtomaki.
Murtomaki misses the shot to the body.
Murtomaki throws a series of punches but McGully avoids them all with ease.
McGully misses with a few strikes there.
McGully throws a right hand that Murtomaki ducks under and follows up with a left that Murtomaki also avoids with ease.
McGully looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
McGully uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Murtomaki.
Murtomaki misses with a series of wild punches.
McGully throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
A left lands for Murtomaki.
Danga de danga de dang - Murtomaki scores with a four punch combination!
McGully showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Murtomaki.
Murtomaki throws a series of punches but McGully moves out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Murtomaki misses with a combination
and McGully makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Murtomaki swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Some wild striking there from Murtomaki.
Murtomaki throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and McGully counters with a nice double leg into side control. Murtomaki won't be happy with that.
McGully trying to control the action but Murtomaki is working from the bottom.
Murtomaki wants to get back to his feet.
McGully works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Murtomaki defending against the ground and pound.
McGully has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Murtomaki is trying to get back to half guard.
McGully trying to control the action but Murtomaki is working from the bottom.
Murtomaki tries to escape but McGully is in control.
Murtomaki is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Murtomaki is trying to get back to his feet.
McGully is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
McGully throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Murtomaki wants to get back to his feet.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

McGully decides to stand back up. McGully steps back and let's Murtomaki get back to his feet.
Some wild striking there from Murtomaki.
McGully moves out of range as Murtomaki strikes.
McGully wants to clinch.
McGully tries to score a power double leg takedown but Murtomaki sees that one coming and sprawls well. That will dishearten McGully somewhat.
Tuomas Murtomaki has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Jason McGully.
Murtomaki looks to land a combination but McGully avoids it well.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Murtomaki scores with a body shot.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Murtomaki takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Murtomaki misses with a few strikes there.
Murtomaki throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Tuomas Murtomaki will probably get the nod.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Murtomaki misses with a body shot.
McGully slips a jab and a cross from Murtomaki.
Sloppy strikes from McGully. Those never looked like landing.
Murtomaki looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Tuomas Murtomaki seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Murtomaki throws a right and a left that McGully avoids nicely.
McGully loads up on a big right hand but Murtomaki slips the punch.
McGully throws a right hand that Murtomaki ducks under and follows up with a left that Murtomaki also avoids with ease.
Murtomaki throws a right hand that McGully ducks under and follows up with a left that McGully also avoids with ease.
Murtomaki throws a right hand that McGully ducks under and follows up with a left that McGully also avoids with ease.
Tuomas Murtomaki is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
McGully swinging wildly here.
Murtomaki fails to land with a series of punches.
Murtomaki misses with the combination.

McGully darts in and clinches Murtomaki up against the cage.
Murtomaki keeps the fight in the clinch, despite McGully's efforts to push away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McGully is looking to break free of the clinch but Murtomaki has double underhooks.
Murtomaki can't break the clinch.
Murtomaki prevents a takedown attempt there.
McGully is trying to break the clinch but Murtomaki is controlling him.
Murtomaki is trying to force a seperation but McGully has the dominant position.

Murtomaki's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Murtomaki throws a right hand that McGully ducks under and follows up with a left that McGully also avoids with ease.

Murtomaki darts in and clinches McGully up against the cage.
Murtomaki can't break the clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from McGully.
Murtomaki scores with a nice hook to the head.

Murtomaki pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Murtomaki fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
McGully is trying hard to land a takedown here. Murtomaki sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
McGully dodges the punch combination from Murtomaki.
McGully's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Murtomaki connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! McGully scrambles back to his feet.
McGully tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Murtomaki closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Murtomaki is looking to wear down McGully with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Murtomaki cracks a nice hook into McGully's ribs.
Murtomaki lands with a right that hurts McGully. McGully looks to clinch but Murtomaki throws a short knee that drops McGully. This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:41 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch and Knee). Tuomas Murtomaki!
Tuomas Murtomaki very nearly forgot to thank Steel Terror-Trition: Video Proven 160Q amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.