PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Adrian Lewis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Åke Johansson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Johansson's choice of entrance music: remember the name. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Lewis
vs
Johansson

190 cm
20
300 lbs
7 - 1 - 0

190 cm
20
215 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Good kicks
Heavy handed

Meet the Future

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the super heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Adrian Lewis!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Åke Johansson!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Fedor Mirinova and Ivan Kurochkin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lewis has his takedown stuffed
and Johansson counters with a good low kick that Lewis was not able to check.
Johansson connects with a good right hand that stumbles Lewis. Lewis circles away out of range and recomposes himself.

Lewis closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Johansson to the mat! Johansson manages to get full guard.
Lewis has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.

Lewis avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Lewis stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Johansson swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Lewis sitting in guard here, content to control.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Johansson is active off his back here, looking for submissions.

Johansson looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johansson being controlled here, momentarily.

Lewis drops back looking for a leg! Johansson is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Johansson manages to kick Lewis off! Lewis jumps back into Johansson's guard.
Lewis is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.
Johansson looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Lewis's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.

Adrian Lewis has forced the referee to step in and bring the fight back to the feet.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Lewis.
Lewis on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johansson scores with a hook.
Lewis fails with the takedown
and Johansson makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Adrian Lewis. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Johansson cracks Lewis with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Johansson misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Johansson slaps away a takedown attempt from Lewis, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Johansson feints a jab promting Lewis to slip. Johansson then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Lewis slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
A cross from Johansson lands.
Johansson sizes up Lewis with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Johansson turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Johansson digs a good hook to Lewis's body.
Johansson thumps Lewis with a low kick.
Nice body kick from Johansson.
Lewis is breathing heavily.
Johansson fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Lewis has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johansson scores with a spinning back kick!
Johansson cracks a nice hook into Lewis's ribs.
Johansson scores with the left hand. Lewis knows he should have avoided that one.
Johansson lands with a good body shot.
Lewis takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Lewis walks into a jab.
Åke Johansson is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
A chopping leg kick lands by Johansson.
Johansson thumps Lewis with a low kick.
Johansson connects with a solid leg kick.
Johansson connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Johansson moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Jab by Johansson.
Johansson throws a head kick that Lewis semi-blocks.
Lewis gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Johansson.

Lewis is rocked!
Johansson looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Lewis doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Lewis on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Oh Lewis is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Jab from Johansson.
Lewis with a lazy takedown attempt
and Johansson counters with an outside leg kick.
Johansson throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Lewis seems to have got his legs back now.
Lewis on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Nice shot lands for Johansson.
Lewis chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Johansson can pounce on him.
That kick from Johansson tenderised Lewis's leg. Lewis is trying to keep his angry face on.
Johansson fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Lewis.
Johansson lands a front kick.
Good leg kick by Johansson there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Johansson lands with an uppercut that bounces Lewis off the cage and back into range.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Johansson drops Lewis with a beautiful combination! Lewis stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Johansson is looking for the KO!
Johansson is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Lewis had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Lewis has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Johansson.
Both fighters circling slowly here as the pace drops. Hopefully one of them does someth.. OOOHHHH!!!! Johansson throws an absolute beast of a head kick! Lewis is done! He's out cold, twisted and contorted up against the cage! Wow!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Åke Johansson!
Åke Johansson is the new super heavyweight champion!
Åke Johansson decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.