PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Don Juliano (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Epeli Nailatikau (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Nailatikau comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Number of the Bollywood kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Epeli Nailatikau is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Juliano
vs
Nailatikau

163 cm
25
146 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

172 cm
20
154 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Powerful

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 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Don Juliano!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Epeli Nailatikau!
The judges for this bout are Arvi Lind, Anni Minnemäki and Johanna Lukiainen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Juliano slips under a jab from Nailatikau.
Nailatikau jabs Juliano to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Epeli Nailatikau seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Juliano shoots in and drives through. Nailatikau sprawls well.
Juliano takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Nailatikau lands an overhand right.
Nailatikau jabs Juliano to the body, keeping him at a distance.

Juliano shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Juliano showed some decent athleticism there.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.

Juliano is looking for a kimura here.
Nailatikau trying to control from the bottom.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Juliano working to pass to mount. He's got his hand pressing down on Nailatikau's thigh. Nailatikau counters though and makes it back to full guard.
Nailatikau can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Juliano controls the pace.
Juliano trying to control the position from guard on top but Nailatikau is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Juliano is really struggling to control Nailatikau but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Juliano pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Nailatikau is keeping the position for now.
Juliano stopping the sweep attempt from Nailatikau.
Juliano sitting in guard here, content to control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up, due to lack of activity on the part of Don Juliano.
Juliano throws a jab when Nailatikau was well out of range.
Nice sprawl there from Nailatikau as Juliano shoots in.
Nailatikau stuffs the takedown attempt from Juliano. Juliano gets slowly back to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Don Juliano. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Juliano ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Juliano staying out of range there.
Nailatikau fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Juliano manages to avoid it.
Juliano shoots for a double leg takedown but Nailatikau sprawls well. He's pushed Juliano's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Nailatikau misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Nailatikau cracks Juliano with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Juliano fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Nailatikau fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nailatikau avoids the body shot from Juliano.
Juliano avoids the body shot from Nailatikau.
Juliano has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Nailatikau.
Nailatikau throws a shot to the body.
Juliano tries to close the distance and clinch but Nailatikau swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
A kick lands to the mid section there for Nailatikau.
Nailatikau digs a good body shot into Juliano's ribs.
Nailatikau moves into range and connects with a jab.
Nailatikau scores with a hook.
Juliano shoots and misses
and Nailatikau counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Juliano needs to keep his hands up - Nailatikau had a free shot at his head there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Juliano takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Nailatikau throws a sloppy head kick and Juliano moves out of range easily.
Nailatikau lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nailatikau connects with the punch.
Nailatikau lands a glancing blow to the side of Juliano's head.
Juliano avoids the head kick by Nailatikau.
A head kick misses from Nailatikau.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Nailatikau.
Good shot there by Nailatikau.
Juliano takes a shot right to the bread basket.
A big left from Nailatikau misses.
Nailatikau cracks Juliano with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Juliano shoots in and drives through. Nailatikau sprawls well.
Juliano takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Nailatikau lands a head kick. Juliano smiles back at him and beckons him forward.

Juliano is rocked!
Nailatikau knocks out Juliano with a massive right hand! The ref tackles Nailatikau before he can follow up with any more strikes and that's it everyone. Nailatikau picks up the big W with a huge KO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Epeli Nailatikau!
Epeli Nailatikau gave a mention to KAISER in his post fight interview. That will please them (and hopefully generate some sales).