PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Donzel Fortunado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mitchell Stehling (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fortunado comes to the cage accompanied by Bob Dylan-Knockin' on Heaven's Door . Stehling comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Turmion Kätilöt - Minä MÄÄRÄÄN! kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Fortunado
vs
Stehling

199 cm
39
270 lbs
42 - 20 - 0

191 cm
39
261 lbs
59 - 31 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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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 42 - 20 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Donzel Fortunado!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 59 - 31 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Mitchell Stehling!
The judges for this bout are , Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Stehling cracks Fortunado with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.

It looks like Donzel Fortunado has been cut.
Stehling misses with a body shot.
Stehling wants to clinch.

Fortunado shoots in and gets a takedown into Stehling's guard.
Fortunado wants to control from the top but Stehling keeps moving.
Stehling can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Fortunado controls the pace.
Fortunado trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Stehling is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Stehling is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Fortunado!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fortunado is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Stehling throwing strikes here but Fortunado is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Fortunado taking shots to the head.
Stehling throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Stehling throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Stehling throws some wild stikes that Fortunado manages to avoid easily.
Fortunado is wriggling around trying to escape.
Stehling throws some wild stikes that Fortunado manages to avoid easily.
Stehling throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Fortunado because Stehling loaded up on that one.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Stehling thowing strikes but they're hitting the gloves, not doing any damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Stehling raining down shots from the mount!
Fortunado in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Stehling is landing with some decent strikes but Fortunado is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.

Donzel Fortunado's cut is getting worse.
Fortunado wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Stehling.
Fortunado is bucking up trying to escape but Stehling cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

Donzel Fortunado's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Donzel Fortunado's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Mitchell Stehling!
A relieved looking Mitchell Stehling thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.