PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tomasz Adamek (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joaquin Fortunado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Adamek comes to the cage accompanied by I Am The Sword - Motorhead . Fortunado is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Stairway to Heaven. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Adamek
vs
Fortunado

185 cm
32
215 lbs
19 - 24 - 0

191 cm
26
208 lbs
10 - 4 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Steel Penn's All 160

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 19 - 24 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tomasz Adamek!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joaquin Fortunado!
The judges for this bout are Cecil Peabody, Tiny Johnson and Alan Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Adamek moves out of range of the body kick.
Fortunado lands a right hook to the body.
Fortunado tries a head kick but it misses.
Adamek sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Adamek takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.

It looks like Tomasz Adamek has been cut.
Fortunado throws a head kick that Adamek semi-blocks.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Decent striking displayed by Fortunado there.

Adamek gets a double leg takedown into Fortunado's guard.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Fortunado has control of Adamek's left arm, preventing Adamek from doing any damage.
Adamek is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Fortunado is controlling Adamek's posture.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Fortunado wants to sweep here but Adamek controlling him for the moment.

OK we're going to have a standup here. Joaquin Fortunado hasn't been effective enough on the ground and the referee wants a restart.
Fortunado throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Adamek shoots in looking for a takedown. Fortunado tries to sprawl out of it but Adamek keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Fortunado manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Adamek keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Fortunado has tried to improve his agility in the runup to this fight.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Fortunado. Adamek shrugs it off though.
Fortunado tries a head kick but it misses.
Adamek tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Fortunado feints and then cracks Adamek's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Adamek down.
Fortunado throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Joaquin Fortunado is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Fortunado lands a nice shot to the body.
Adamek takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Adamek is breathing heavily.
Fortunado connects with a solid leg kick.
Fortunado seems to be stalking Adamek here. He circles momentarily and then unleashes a devastatic head kick! Adamek drops like a stone, out cold! WOW! Are you kidding me!? What a knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Joaquin Fortunado!
Joaquin Fortunado 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.