PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Oedipus Galactican (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Galactican
vs
Johnson

164 cm
22
135 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

150 cm
18
140 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Oedipus Galactican!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, John Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Anni Minnemäki and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Galactican clinches up with Johnson and pushes him back against the cage.
Johnson wants to break free but Galactican has control.
Johnson can't break the clinch.
Galactican keeps control of Johnson as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Galactican lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

Johnson is rocked!
Johnson should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Galactican prevents Johnson from breaking the clinch.
Johnson is still on wobbly legs! Can Galactican finish him?
Galactican crunches a lovely knee into Johnson's ribcage.
Johnson seems to have recovered his senses.
Galactican scores a nice knee to the body.
Galactican pushes Johnson back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Johnson wants to break free but Galactican has control.

Galactican manages to break the clinch.
Johnson tries to bum rush Galactican with a series of wild strikes but Galactican uses good footwork to avoid the assault.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Galactican slows down the pace here.
Galactican fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Galactican lands a shoulder strike.
Galactican is trying to stall.
Galactican lands an elbow just above Johnson 's eye.
Galactican working aggressively here.

Galactican breaks from the clinch.
Johnson keeps the fight on the outside.
Johnson gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Johnson keeps the fight on the outside.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Galactican pushes Johnson up against the cage in a clinch.
Galactican trying to land knees to the body.

Galactican escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
A combination from Galactican does no damage.
Johnson misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Johnson avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Johnson loads up on a big right hand but Galactican slips the punch.
Johnson throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Galactican moves into the clinch.
A short left from Galactican.
Galactican has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Johnson is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Galactican missing with knees to the body.
Galactican lands with a left to the head.
Galactican pushes off an throws an elbow but Johnson leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Galactican with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Galactican is working for takedown but Johnson is calmly controlling the position for now.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Oedipus Galactican. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Galactican is breathing heavily.
Galactican with a knee to the head.
Johnson is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Galactican misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Johnson.
Galactican misses with a knee strike.
Johnson is trying to break free.
Johnson wants to get back to striking at distance but Galactican won't allow it.
Johnson wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Galactican has him pressed against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Galactican lands a left hand that snaps the head of Johnson backwards.
Johnson wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Galactican breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Galactican tries to clinch up but Johnson circles away and keeps his distance.
Johnson misses with a two punch combination.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Johnson wants to break free but Galactican has control.
Galactican with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Johnson on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Galactican misses with a knee to the head.
Galactican lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Johnson.

Galactican breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Johnson ducks under a wild hook from Galactican.

Galactican moves into range and clinches up with Johnson.
Johnson wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Galactican has him pressed against the cage.
Johnson wants to break the clinch but can't.
Galactican looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Johnson on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Johnson wants to get back to striking at distance but Galactican won't allow it.

Galactican escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Johnson misses with a double jab
and Galactican counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Johnson is lucky that one didn't land flush.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Galactican is looking to clinch.
Johnson misses with the combination.
Galactican lands with a thumping leg kick.
Galactican circles to his right before unloading a perfect head kick! Johnson drops to the canvas, hurt badly! Galactican follows Johnson to the ground and unloads with a series of strikes that force the referee to step in and end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Oedipus Galactican!