PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Allanah Perkins (ranked 7662 p4p, 541 weight class) and Amish Mehra (ranked 7023 p4p, 529 weight class). Mehra is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Dhal Jaun Main-Akshay Kumar & Ileana D'cruz. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Perkins
vs
Mehra

182 cm
19
164 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
18
155 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Heavy handed

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Allanah Perkins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Amish Mehra!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Yukihiro Shimada and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mehra fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Perkins looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Perkins throws a looping overhand right but Mehra ducks down to avoid it.
Allanah Perkins seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Perkins rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Mehra moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Perkins lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Perkins uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Mehra.
Mehra listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.

It looks like Allanah Perkins has been cut.
Mehra fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
A punch lands to the side of Perkins 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Mehra takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Mehra changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Perkins throws a poor cross that misses
and Mehra cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

Perkins is rocked!
Mehra throws a monster overhand right that drops Perkins! Mehra follows up with more strikes from mount and the fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Amish Mehra!
Amish Mehra spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.