PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Meat Vegetable (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hideaki Murakami (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Meat Vegetable could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Hideaki Murakami's chin.

Vegetable
vs
Murakami

180 cm
25
150 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

171 cm
24
148 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Meat Vegetable!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Hideaki Murakami!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Fujiwara, Yuuki Gou and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Murakami will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.

Murakami gets a clinch.
Vegetable avoiding damage.
Murakami tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Vegetable just stands there and leans against the cage.
A short body shot lands from Vegetable as the two fighters clinch.
Vegetable displaying some good clinch control by pressing Murakami up against the cage.
Vegetable struggles to land a body shot inside as Murakami controls his hands.
Vegetable lands with a light punch inside.
Vegetable gets through Murakami's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Vegetable digs a right hand into Murakami's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Murakami's gas tank.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vegetable lands a hook to the side of the head.
Vegetable tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
The referee is keeping an eye on Vegetable - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Meat Vegetable.
Murakami shoots in for a takedown but Vegetable shows good takedown defense.
Meat Vegetable has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Hideaki Murakami.

Vegetable closes the distance and pushes Murakami back into the cage.
Vegetable lands with a short shot to the head.
Vegetable dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Murakami missing with knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Still in the clinch, Vegetable scores with a nice short uppercut.
Vegetable lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Vegetable has Murakami pressed against the cage, preventing Murakami from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Murakami jumps guard but Vegetable stands there with Murakami around his waist. Murakami gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Murakami looks gassed!
Vegetable misses with a body punch.
Vegetable controlling the action here for a moment.
Vegetable struggles to land a body shot inside as Murakami controls his hands.
Vegetable makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vegetable lands a shoulder strike.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.

Murakami manages to pull guard. Let's see whether he can land a sub off his back.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Vegetable sitting in guard here, content to control.
Murakami keeping full guard, as Vegetable tries to pass.
Murakami looking to sweep here. No luck so far.

Murakami working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Vegetable doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Oh but Murakami is tightening it up a little... Vegetable has to be careful here... He's got his foot tucked under now, this looks tight! Vegetable reacted too slowly and this one could be over in a matter of seconds! YES! Vegetable taps out! Nice BJJ there by Murakami!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Hideaki Murakami!
Hideaki Murakami decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.