PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jack Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alexey Shishkin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Black
vs
Shishkin

187 cm
18
198 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

176 cm
20
202 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Good elbows
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jack Black!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Alexey Shishkin!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Konstantin Menshow and Aleksandr Martynov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Black crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Shishkin - the referee stops the clock and Black gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Shishkin. Black manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Shishkin tries for a takedown but Black sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Black takes a head kick and shrugs it off.

Black shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Shishkin napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Shishkin is trying to get back to his feet.
Black tries to cartwheel into mount but he doesn't manage it.
Shishkin misses with a strike from the bottom.

Black decides to take the fight back to the feet.

Black closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Shishkin to the mat! Shishkin manages to get full guard.
Black won't allow Shishkin to get back to his feet.
Black is looking to work some ground and pound but Shishkin has wrist control.
Shishkin wants to stand and escape but Black is having none of it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Shishkin really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Black. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

Shishkin pushes Black off and scrambles back to his feet.
Shishkin looks gassed!

Black tries to keep at a distance but Shishkin has taken the fight into the clinch.

Shishkin breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Shishkin misses with a head kick.
Black doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Shishkin counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Shishkin throwing shots but Black is blocking nicely.
Shishkin should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Black throws a strike from the bottom that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Shishkin is pressing down on Black's thigh, looking to free his foot. Black is holding on for now.
Black manages to get to full guard.
Shishkin wants to stand and escape but instead Black has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Black trying to control but Shishkin is working from the bottom.
Shishkin wants to get back to his feet but Black is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Shishkin can do anything to dispel that myth.
Black slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Black decides to stand up, so the ref orders Shishkin to his feet.
Black gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Shishkin counters with a head kick. That will keep Black thinking before he tries any more sloppy attacks!

It looks like Jack Black has been cut.

Excellent takedown into side control there by Shishkin.
Black regains half guard, as Shishkin was trying to land strikes.
Black moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Shishkin wants to get up but he can't break Black's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Black looking for a triangle here. Shishkin is fighting it but it looks tight! Black pulls the arm across and this one won't last much longer! Nope, Shishkin is tapping out - this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Jack Black!