PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Alexander Johansson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Coffey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Johansson comes into the arena with Avicii - Wake Me Up blaring out of the sound system. Coffey has chosen Only Time by Enya as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Johansson
vs
Coffey

195 cm
26
220 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

196 cm
18
280 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Alexander Johansson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, John Coffey!
The judges for this bout are Trevor Gratis, Yves DeLean and William Peck.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Coffey dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Coffey misses with a lunging right hand
and Johansson connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

Johansson closes the distance and clinches.
Johansson has Coffey pressed against the cage, preventing Coffey from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Johansson scores with a hook to the body.

Johansson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Coffey moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Johansson showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Coffey.
Coffey has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
A jab from Coffey misses.
Coffey has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Johansson finds it's way round the side to connect with Coffey's head.
Coffey stuns Johansson with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Coffey uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Johansson.
Johansson takes a body punch but keeps moving.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Coffey fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Coffey lands a nice shot that snaps Johansson's head back.
Coffey misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Johansson takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Johansson throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Coffey counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Coffey scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Johansson takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Johansson doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Johansson is breathing heavily.
Coffey lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
We've been told by Johansson's head coaches at Pitbull MMA that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Coffey moves out of range of the strikes.
Coffey scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Johansson doesn't seem bothered though.
Coffey cracks Johansson with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johansson takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Coffey with a jab.

Coffey waves his right hand out in front of him, looking to distract Johansson. Oh, he's unloaded a beast of a left hand - it worked! He's dropped Johansson to the canvas! Can he finish him!?

Johansson is rocked!
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.

Coffey drops back looking for a submission - "I'm sorry sir, but I'm gunna break your leg" says Coffey as he cranks on the unfortunate limb! Johansson screams and taps out before any major damage is done! Don't mess with Coffey! Nice submission victory there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kneebar). John Coffey!
John Coffey thanked the fans post fight for their support.