PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Charles St Lickitung (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kotaro Fuma (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). St Lickitung comes to the cage accompanied by Pokemon Red Gym Leader Battle Music. Charles St Lickitung has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

St Lickitung
vs
Fuma

169 cm
27
160 lbs
11 - 9 - 0

169 cm
22
158 lbs
5 - 29 - 2

Powerful takedowns
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Counter striker
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Charles St Lickitung!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 29 - 2, fighting out of Tokyo, Kotaro Fuma!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Yamamoto, Taro Takaoka and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fuma swats away the attempt to clinch by St Lickitung.

St Lickitung shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. St Lickitung showed some decent athleticism there.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.
St Lickitung takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.
Fuma really doesn't want to stay on the ground with St Lickitung. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

Fuma is defending against the submission attempts here by St Lickitung.
St Lickitung is controlling the pace.

That's one minute gone in the round.

St Lickitung decides to return to a standing position.
St Lickitung closes the distance but Fuma moves to the side
and Fuma finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.

St Lickitung fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Fuma to the ground. St Lickitung is now in Fuma's guard.
St Lickitung stands and throws Fuma's legs to the side, diving into side control.

St Lickitung in side control, working for a kimura. He's got hold of an arm and he's torquing it... Fuma is tapping! That's the end of the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Charles St Lickitung!
After the fight, Charles St Lickitung was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.