PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Katsuji Rikidozan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tanner Speed (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Speed has chosen Funky Kingston / Toots And The Maytals as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Rikidozan
vs
Speed

189 cm
28
220 lbs
9 - 11 - 0

188 cm
29
212 lbs
13 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

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 9 - 11 - 0, fighting out of New York, Katsuji Rikidozan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tanner Speed!
The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, Steve Montenegro and Jonathan Paton.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Speed closes the distance and clinches.
Rikidozan pushes Speed back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
A head punch on the inside from Rikidozan fails to land.
Speed throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Rikidozan blocks it with crossed arms.
Speed tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Rikidozan lands a good knee to the midsection. Speed won't want to take too many of those.
Rikidozan struggles to land a body shot inside as Speed controls his hands.

Rikidozan breaks the clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Speed looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
A head kick misses from Rikidozan.
Rikidozan blocks a leg kick.
Speed avoids the head kick by Rikidozan.
Speed tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Rikidozan paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Tanner Speed seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Rikidozan checks a leg kick.
A head kick by Speed misses
and Rikidozan counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Rikidozan misses with an uppercut.
A head kick by Speed misses
and Rikidozan counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Speed throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Rikidozan misses with a head kick.
Rikidozan missing with a left hand there. Speed was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rikidozan misses with a straight left.
A chopping leg kick lands by Speed.
Speed bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.

Speed instigates a clinch.
Speed tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Rikidozan gets through Speed's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Speed throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Rikidozan blocks it with crossed arms.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Speed lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Speed lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Rikidozan struggles to land a body shot inside as Speed controls his hands.
Still in the clinch, Rikidozan scores with a nice short uppercut.
Rikidozan lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Speed using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Still in the clinch, Rikidozan scores with a nice short uppercut.
Speed misses with a knee strike.
Speed tries to land a knee to the head but Rikidozan blocks with his arms.
A short right from Rikidozan on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Speed using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Rikidozan has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Rikidozan tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Speed unloads a knee to the mid-section.
A head punch on the inside from Rikidozan fails to land.
Speed with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Speed misses with a short punch on the inside.
Rikidozan misses with a short punch on the inside.
Rikidozan lands a right hand that snaps the head of Speed backwards.
Speed tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Rikidozan throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Speeds head.
Speed is trying to stall.

Rikidozan pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Speed tries a head kick but it misses.
A jab from Rikidozan misses.
Speed throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Rikidozan's head.
Speed throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Speed throws a body kick despite being completely out of range
and Rikidozan counters with a thumping low kick.
Speed uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Rikidozan.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Speed finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Speed slips a straight right by Rikidozan.
Speed slips under a jab from Rikidozan.
Speed tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Speed throws a head kick but Rikidozan moves out of range.
Rikidozan moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Rikidozan just misses with a punch to the body.
Speed avoids the body shot from Rikidozan.
Speed wants to clinch up but Rikidozan keeps it at a distance.

Speed closes the distance and pushes Rikidozan back into the cage.
Rikidozan with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

Rikidozan escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Rikidozan misses the shot to the body.
Rikidozan misses with a looping right.
Speed looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Speed is looking to take this fight into the clinch.

Rikidozan lands a big head kick that sends Speed tumbling to the mat! Rikidozan takes a step backwards and waves Speed back to his feet - he wants the finish!

Speed is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Rikidozan throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Speed sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Speed is still on wobbly legs! Can Rikidozan finish him?
Speed swings away with a body shot that misses
and Rikidozan counters with a powerful cross that connects right on the chin and the lights go out! A massive one punch knock out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:10 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Katsuji Rikidozan!
Katsuji Rikidozan decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.