PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Kazushi Sakuraba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John White (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sakuraba
vs
White

183 cm
27
175 lbs
16 - 10 - 0

184 cm
26
173 lbs
10 - 18 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Insanely flexible

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kazushi Sakuraba!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, John White!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Kenichi Hosakawa and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
White lands a leg kick that knocks Sakuraba off balance momentarily.
Sakuraba scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
White moves in looking to clinch but Sakuraba pushes him off.
White looks to clinch

and Sakuraba counters with a takedown into side control.

Sakuraba tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
White is looking to work his way out of this bad position but Sakuraba is controlling him well.
Sakuraba looks up at the clock and then as White takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Sakuraba smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
White is trying to stand back up. He's worked his way up against the cage but Sakuraba has just dragged him back down to the mat.
Sakuraba advances to mount.
Sakuraba pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
White really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Sakuraba. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
White is trying desperately to improve position.
White taking shots to the head.
Sakuraba controlling from mount.
White is looking to improve his position but Sakuraba isn't that keen on the idea.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakuraba working away from the top, dropping strikes.
White is trying to escape but when you're mounted that's not too easy.

Sakuraba working from mount. He moves in close and looks like he might be going for an arm triangle... He's hopped off to the side and he's transitioned into an Anaconda choke. White turning a nasty shade of purple. He's refusing to tap but he's gone! He's out! The ref rips Sakuraba off and cradles White's limp body as Sakuraba celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Anaconda Choke). Kazushi Sakuraba!
A very excited looking Kazushi Sakuraba made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.