PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Jose Sanchez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Reino Tolonen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sanchez comes to the cage accompanied by PELIMUSA. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sanchez
vs
Tolonen

178 cm
30
153 lbs
19 - 12 - 2

175 cm
31
157 lbs
16 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

TWGC Champion
World class MT
Good gas tank

FinnFighter Nutrition (Five 160Q supps!)
Perkele!

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 19 - 12 - 2, fighting out of Amsterdam, Jose Sanchez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Reino Tolonen!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Arvi Lind and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sanchez lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Tolonen throws out a loose jab but Sanchez uses good head movement to avoid it.
Tolonen lands a really nice looking cross but Sanchez seems unphased.
Sanchez misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Sanchez tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Tolonen manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Sanchez throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Nice uppercut there from Sanchez.
Tolonen tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Sanchez pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Nice jab there from Tolonen.
Sanchez clobbers Tolonen with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Sanchez slips a jab from Tolonen.
Sanchez just misses with a punch to the body.
Sanchez misses with a straight left.
Sanchez fails with an attempt to clinch.
A looping hook to the body misses from Tolonen. Sanchez does a little dance to reset his feet.

Sanchez manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Tolonen on his heels. He'll look to pass Tolonen's guard now, I'm sure.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Tolonen looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Sanchez preventing the sweep.

Tolonen escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Sanchez gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tolonen is doing well to control the posture of his opponent and prevent any damage.

Tolonen has his foot on Sanchez's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Sanchez works his way back into a safe position though.
Sanchez works over Tolonen with some ground and pound from guard.
Tolonen wants to improve his position but instead Sanchez has moved into half guard.
Sanchez is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Tolonen has hold of Sanchez's hands but Sanchez slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Tolonen moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Sanchez lands a couple of elbows.

Tolonen is looking to cinch up a triangle. Sanchez throws the leg off to one side though and gets in tight to Tolonen's body to avoid the submission. Tolonen has instead reached around Sanchez's neck and now has a guillotine! Oh, this is biiiig trouble! Tolonen arches his back and squeezes and forces the tap from his hapless opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Reino Tolonen!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Reino Tolonen waved his t-shirt featuring FinnFighter Nutrition (Five 160Q supps!)'s logo in front of the cameras.