PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cain Velasquez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Guntur Llaripukinen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Llaripukinen has chosen Elvis Presley - True Love Travels On A Gravel Road as his entrance music. Guntur Llaripukinen has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Velasquez
vs
Llaripukinen

188 cm
23
255 lbs
10 - 7 - 0

193 cm
28
260 lbs
11 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 7 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Cain Velasquez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Guntur Llaripukinen!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Dmitry Maklakov and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Velasquez will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Velasquez tries for a takedown but Llaripukinen circles away easily

and Llaripukinen counters with a crisp one two that drops Velasquez! Llaripukinen thinks about following him to the mat for a moment but instead steps back and waves Velasquez to his feet! Velasquez is in big trouble!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Llaripukinen rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Velasquez moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Llaripukinen connects with a combination that backs up Velasquez into the cage. Llaripukinen lands a flurry of punches that gets past Velasquez's guard. Velasquez is down and the referee has seen enough. It is all over! Llaripukinen bursts into tears - this win obviously means a huge amount to him.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Guntur Llaripukinen!
Guntur Llaripukinen decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.