PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hiro Sakurai (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alex Alcoholic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Sakurai might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Sandstorm by Darude. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sakurai
vs
Alcoholic

192 cm
18
220 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

185 cm
25
205 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

KAISER

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Hiro Sakurai!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Alex Alcoholic !
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Ren Mimura and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Alcoholic tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Sakurai fails miserably with a takedown attempt.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Sakurai jumps guard but Alcoholic stands there with Sakurai around his waist. Sakurai gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Alcoholic misses with a knee to the head.
Sakurai is looking for a takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Hiro Sakurai. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Alcoholic connects with a nasty looking knee right to Sakurai's face.

Alcoholic breaks from the clinch.
Sakurai fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Alcoholic lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Sakurai definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Alcoholic throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sakurai blocks a head kick by Alcoholic .
Sakurai moves in looking to clinch but Alcoholic pushes him off.
Alcoholic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Alcoholic misses with a two punch combination.

Alcoholic gets caught flat footed, as Sakurai shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Sakurai is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakurai scoring with some ground and pound.
Sakurai sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Alcoholic 's guard.
Sakurai stalling.
Alcoholic is trying to maintain the position but Sakurai is very close to passing his half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sakurai is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Alcoholic !
Sakurai controlling from the full mount.
Sakurai connects with a couple of good shots from mount.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sakurai controlling the position easily from mount.
Sakurai looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Sakurai raining down shots from the mount!
Sakurai working the ground and pound effectively.
Sakurai lands with some strikes.
Sakurai with good strikes from the mount here!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Sakurai content just to control the position here.
Sakurai putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!

Alcoholic is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Alcoholic tries to hold on but Sakurai postures up.

Alcoholic has left one of his arms exposed and Sakurai doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Alcoholic screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Hiro Sakurai!
During a confident post fight interview, Hiro Sakurai thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.