PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Yaser Khalafa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Salomon Nevalainen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Khalafa
vs
Nevalainen

195 cm
25
250 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

195 cm
25
300 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Counter fighter
Intelligent

Island's Forbidden Fruits

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Yaser Khalafa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Salomon Nevalainen!
The judges for this bout are Sandra Marshall, Bart Greer and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Nevalainen fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Khalafa to the ground. Nevalainen is now in Khalafa's guard.
Khalafa is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Nevalainen is frustrating his opponent with some stalling tactics from top position.
Nevalainen postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Nevalainen wants to control from the top but Khalafa keeps moving.
Nevalainen stands up over Khalafa, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Nevalainen has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Khalafa looking to control.
Khalafa knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Nevalainen on the ground.
Khalafa seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Khalafa controls Nevalainen momentarily but Nevalainen frees himself.
Khalafa on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Khalafa tries to get out of the position.
Nevalainen with a nice head shot there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nevalainen works over Khalafa with some ground and pound from guard.
Nevalainen is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Khalafa not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Nevalainen is in close to Khalafa's body, working some short punches and elbows.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nevalainen working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Khalafa's head.
Nevalainen slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Nevalainen lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Check out the look on Nevalainen's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Nevalainen remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Khalafa takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Khalafa takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Khalafa tries to control but Nevalainen manages to take his back.
Nevalainen scores with a nice shot to the head of his opponent. Khalafa is looking for a way out.

Khalafa is rocked!
Can Khalafa hold on?! Nevalainen is landing more strikes to his hapless foe.
Oh Khalafa is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Nevalainen scoring with big shots to the body. Khalafa is looking for a way out. A despairing look towards the ref and the official steps in to stop the fight. Khalafa was obviously done but didn't want to tap out.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Salomon Nevalainen!