PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tomi Koski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jai Malek (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Koski comes to the cage accompanied by Catatonic Overload - Heavyweight . Tomi Koski is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Koski
vs
Malek

190 cm
37
234 lbs
34 - 16 - 1

196 cm
28
260 lbs
23 - 7 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Perkele!

Brute

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 34 - 16 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Tomi Koski!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jai Malek!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Johanna Lukiainen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Koski ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Malek avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Malek walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Koski scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Koski cracks Malek with a good jab.
Koski fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Koski moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Koski keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Koski fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Malek manages to avoid it.
Malek moves into range and connects with a jab.
Malek checks a leg kick.
Malek lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Koski lands with a cross.
Koski throws a right hand that Malek ducks under and follows up with a left that Malek also avoids with ease.
Koski on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Malek throws a body punch but Koski moves out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Malek clinches up with Koski and pushes him back against the cage.
Koski wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Koski pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Malek scores with a shot to the body.
Koski looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Malek looks to score with a jab to the body but Koski is just out of range.
Koski lands a high kick!
Nice uppercut there from Malek.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Koski avoids the head kick by Malek.
Koski takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Malek lands with a shot to the body.
Koski circles away from the clinch attempt.
Malek fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Koski has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Koski is breathing heavily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Koski avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Tomi Koski seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Koski loads up on a big right hand but Malek slips the punch.
Koski throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Malek takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Koski lands a nice leg kick that just misses Malek's sensitive parts.
A slapping leg kick lands for Koski.
Malek scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Koski thows a body shot but no joy.
Koski thows a body shot but no joy.
Koski throws a lazy right hand but Malek sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Koski misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Koski misses with the combination.
Koski ducks down and throws a hook to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Malek wants to clinch up but Koski keeps it at a distance.
Koski checks the leg kick nicely there.
Koski fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Malek looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Koski throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Malek lands a right hook to the body.
Koski keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Koski throws a sloppy head kick and Malek moves out of range easily.
Koski swats away the attempt to clinch by Malek.
Koski tries to land a front kick but Malek steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Koski throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Malek counters with a stiff right hand.

It looks like Tomi Koski has been cut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Malek throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Koski stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Koski misses with a body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Malek swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Koski fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Malek is out of range.
Malek takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
Malek keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Koski.
Malek avoids a punch combination nicely.
Malek misses with a looping right.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Malek checks a leg kick.
Koski cracks the inside of Malek's front leg.
Koski uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Malek.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Koski looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Malek is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Koski rather than just go for the knockout.
Malek checks a leg kick.
Malek fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Koski has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jai Malek dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Tomi Koski's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Koski misses the shot to the body.
Koski scores with a nice head shot.
Koski looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Koski scores with a head kick.
Koski looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Malek fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Malek checks a leg kick.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Koski. Malek shrugs it off though.
Koski blocks a head kick by Malek.
Koski with a jab.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A nice inside leg kick there by Malek. That's going to slow Koski down.
Koski ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Malek moves away.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Koski explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Koski keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Koski takes a swing at Malek's ribcage but misses.
Malek pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Koski misses with a left hand
and Malek counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Malek connects with a leg kick. Koski looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Malek connects with a high kick.
Malek misses with a body shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A shot to the body from Malek misses
and Koski counters with a stiff right hand.
A head kick misses from Malek.
Koski tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Malek was well out of range. Poor timing from Koski.
Malek is looking to land body kicks.
Koski jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Jab from Malek.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Koski lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
The fighters circling - Malek throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Malek slips a jab from Koski.
Malek takes a swing at Koski's ribcage but misses.
A punch lands to the side of Malek 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Malek throws a lazy right hand but Koski sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Koski throws a poor cross that misses
and Malek counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Malek tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Koski was well out of range. Poor timing from Malek.
Malek takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Malek throws a chopping leg kick but Koski manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
Koski checks a low kick from Malek.
Koski is looking to land body kicks.
Malek throws a lazy right hand but Koski sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Koski throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Malek moves out of range as Koski strikes.
Malek throws out a loose jab but Koski uses good head movement to avoid it.
Malek throws a body punch but Koski moves out of range.
Koski throws out a loose jab but Malek uses good head movement to avoid it.
Malek displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Koski throws out the jab.
Malek has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Malek there as he acknowledges the shot.
Koski throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Jai Malek seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Malek uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Koski.
Koski fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Koski misses with a low kick.
Koski checks a leg kick nicely.
Koski lands with a good body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Malek scores with a hook.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Malek wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Malek uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Koski.
Malek blocks a low kick nicely.
Koski connects with a crisp jab.
Koski pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Malek tries to clinch up.
Koski pivots, looking for a leg kick but Malek is out of range and Koski settles back down.
Malek Throws a clean left jab. Malek Twirls his body and connects with a Spinning Back Fist that connects flush with Koski's chin! Koski crumbles to the ground and Malek follows up with some unanswered strikes. It's all over!! Nice standup skills displayed by Malek!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:48 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Jai Malek!
Jai Malek spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.