PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ivan Drago (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and CJ Aldeberg (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Drago comes to the cage accompanied by Antonin Dvorak- Symphony 9. The crowd giving both fighters a great reception on their way into the arena. That's good to see.

Drago
vs
Aldeberg

195 cm
25
215 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

191 cm
27
205 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Knockout power

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ivan Drago!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, CJ Aldeberg!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Aleksandr Martynov and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Aldeberg takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Aldeberg misses with a two punch combination.

Aldeberg moves into the clinch.
A short right from Drago.
Drago stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Drago softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Drago is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
A battle for position here, against the cage.

Drago breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Drago punishes Aldeberg's body with a nice straight punch.
Aldeberg looks winded!
Aldeberg tries to clinch

and Drago counters with a nice right hand that sends Aldeberg toppling to the canvas! Aldeberg scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Drago finish him?!

Aldeberg is rocked!
Aldeberg takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Aldeberg is still on wobbly legs! Can Drago finish him?
Are you kidding me?! Drago ducked down and unloaded an uppercut from hell that sent Aldeberg clean off his feet! Someone make me a GIF - that's knockout of the night for sure!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Ivan Drago!
Ivan Drago spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.