PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lucio Sutton (ranked 24494 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kaisuke Kawasaki (ranked 2903 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Sutton
vs
Kawasaki

216 cm
18
193 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

188 cm
21
194 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Lucio Sutton!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kaisuke Kawasaki!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yukihiro Shimada and Shigeki Sano.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sutton closes the distance and pushes Kawasaki back into the cage.

Kawasaki pulls guard.
Sutton works over Kawasaki with some ground and pound from guard.
Kawasaki controls Sutton momentarily but Sutton frees himself.
Sutton throws an elbow that misses. Kawasaki uses the momentum to reverse the position. He's now in Sutton's guard. Nice move by Kawasaki!

Kawasaki pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Sutton is keeping the position for now.
Kawasaki controlling from the top position.
Sutton will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
Kawasaki trying to control but Sutton is working from the bottom.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sutton is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Kawasaki controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Kawasaki wants to control from the top but Sutton keeps moving.
Kawasaki stands and throws Sutton's legs to the side, diving into side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sutton can't do much from the bottom here.

Kawasaki thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.

Sutton wants to improve his position, back to half guard but Kawasaki has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Sutton's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Sutton is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for Kawasaki!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Kaisuke Kawasaki!