PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Suzume Yamaguchi (ranked 3701 p4p, 3529 weight class) and Anatoly Zvezda (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The key to victory for Suzume Yamaguchi has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Yamaguchi
vs
Zvezda

170 cm
25
151
2 - 1 - 0

168 cm
25
153
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Self confident

Good wrestler
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Suzume Yamaguchi !
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Anatoly Zvezda!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Taro Takaoka and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Zvezda drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Zvezda with a flurry of punches that miss.
Zvezda lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Zvezda postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Zvezda slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
The ground and pound from Zvezda seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Yamaguchi stops Zvezda from passing to mount.
Yamaguchi is looking to reverse the position.
Sloppy strikes there by Zvezda.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Zvezda works to advance to full mount. Yamaguchi defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Zvezda landing shots from mount.
Zvezda lands with some strikes.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Zvezda lands a nice shot to the head.

Yamaguchi is rocked!
Yamaguchi on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Yamaguchi tries to get out of the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zvezda postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Yamaguchi bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Zvezda and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Anatoly Zvezda!