PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kisame Hoshigaki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rickson Garcia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Hoshigaki
vs
Garcia

190 cm
23
205 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

192 cm
26
211 lbs
7 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Cardio machine

Excellent grappler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Kisame Hoshigaki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Rickson Garcia!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Tarja Halkonen and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hoshigaki needs to keep his hands up - Garcia had a free shot at his head there.

Garcia moves into range and clinches up with Hoshigaki.
Garcia lands with a light punch inside.
Garcia throws a punch but it's blocked by Hoshigaki.
Hoshigaki blocks a punch to the side of the head.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Garcia creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Hoshigaki lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

It looks like Rickson Garcia has been cut.
Hoshigaki blocking some punches.
Garcia can't find room to land a body shot as Hoshigaki controls the action.
Garcia lands with a light punch inside.

Hoshigaki is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Garcia misses with a hook from the clinch.
Oh Hoshigaki is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Garcia throws a big uppercut that drops Hoshigaki! More strikes from Garcia and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Hoshigaki lies dazed against the cage as Garcia celebrates with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rickson Garcia!
During a confident post fight interview, Rickson Garcia thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.