PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Clayman Ironchin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tomas Karlsson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Ironchin
vs
Karlsson

180 cm
22
161 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
18
165 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Clayman Ironchin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Tomas Karlsson!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Ben Zyskovitsi and Roosa Järviläinen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Karlsson takes a kick to the side of the head.

It looks like Tomas Karlsson has been cut.
Karlsson looks to land a combination but Ironchin avoids it well.
Ironchin tries to clinch up but Karlsson circles away and keeps his distance.
Karlsson keeps the fight on the outside.
Karlsson stuffs the takedown.
Ironchin throws a push kick but Karlsson slaps the foot to one side.
Karlsson avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Ironchin tries to close the distance and clinch up but Karlsson swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Ironchin tries to clinch up but Karlsson circles away and keeps his distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ironchin tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Nice defenses there by Ironchin.
Ironchin tries to clinch but Karlsson moves out of range.
Ironchin closes this distance looking for a takedown but Karlsson circles away.
Ironchin shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Karlsson as he jumps to the side.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Clayman Ironchin. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Ironchin gets a takedown into half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Ironchin missing with the ground and pound from half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Karlsson slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.

Karlsson looking for submissions from the bottom but instead Ironchin passes into half guard.
Ironchin thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Karlsson's head.
Ironchin is keen to just control but Karlsson is a slippery customer.
Karlsson is looking for a sweep. Ironchin is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Ironchin has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Karlsson is not content to let Ironchin control the position.
Karlsson throws a strike from the bottom that misses.

Ironchin stands up from half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Karlsson swats away the attempt to clinch by Ironchin.
A solid leg kick lands there for Ironchin.
Ironchin changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Karlsson tries to avoid it but Ironchin manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Karlsson to the ground. Karlsson escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Karlsson moves out of range of the body kick.
Ironchin tries to clinch but Karlsson is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Karlsson moves out of range of the body kick from Ironchin.
Karlsson throws a leg kick

and Ironchin counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.

Karlsson has an omoplata and is looking to use it perhaps as a submission or perhaps to transition. Ironchin is in a bit of discomfort here, but he's managed to free himself and has dived into side control! That didn't work out too well for Karlsson.
Karlsson tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Ironchin wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Karlsson is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked Ironchin off and has taken his back!
Karlsson wants to control but Ironchin manages to buck him off and is now in Karlsson's guard! Nice work there by Ironchin!
Ironchin preventing the sweep.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Clayman Ironchin dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Tomas Karlsson's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Karlsson swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Ironchin throws a head kick that misses.
Ironchin tries to close the distance and clinch but Karlsson swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Ironchin is looking to clinch.
Ironchin misses with a takedown attempt - Karlsson sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ironchin tries to close the distance and clinch but Karlsson swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ironchin doesn't manage to clinch there - Karlsson circles away.
Ironchin shoots in for a takedown but Karlsson shows good takedown defense.
Karlsson takes a kick to the side of the head.
Ironchin doesn't manage to clinch there - Karlsson circles away.
Ironchin steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Karlsson.
Ironchin tries to clinch up.
Karlsson throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Karlsson connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Ironchin momentarily.
Ironchin shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Karlsson as he avoids it easily.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Clayman Ironchin. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Ironchin will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Ironchin wants to clinch up but Karlsson keeps it at a distance.
Ironchin tries to clinch but Karlsson is having none of it.
Ironchin tries to clinch up.
Ironchin is looking to clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ironchin tries to clinch but Karlsson moves out of range.
The fight stays on the outside here - Ironchin looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Karlsson misses with a few strikes there.
Ironchin is looking to clinch.
Karlsson throws a head kick that misses.
Ironchin throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Clayman Ironchin is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Ironchin tries to clinch there but Karlsson circles away.
Ironchin throws a head kick but Karlsson moves out of range.
Karlsson circles away from the clinch attempt.
Karlsson misses with a straight right.
Ironchin tries to close the distance and clinch but Karlsson swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Ironchin looks for a takedown but Karlsson sprawls well.
Ironchin tries to clinch up.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Clayman Ironchin dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Tomas Karlsson's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!

Ironchin is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Clayman Ironchin seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Karlsson misses the shot to the body.
Ironchin changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Karlsson tries to avoid it but Ironchin manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Karlsson to the ground. Karlsson escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Ironchin is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ironchin fails with the takedown.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ironchin changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Karlsson tries to avoid it but Ironchin manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Karlsson to the ground. Karlsson escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Clayman Ironchin. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Ironchin fails with the takedown.
Karlsson connects with a jab.

Karlsson fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Ironchin sprawls well initially but Karlsson persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Ironchin is trying to get back to full guard.

Karlsson is looking for a kimura but Ironchin is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Karlsson to get the leverage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ironchin trying to hold on to Karlsson's head to control him but Karlsson postures up.
Karlsson is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

Karlsson is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Karlsson thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Ironchin's head.
Ironchin gets back to full guard.
Karlsson trying to control but Ironchin is working from the bottom.

Karlsson drops back for a leg but he's not going to get it - he lets go and Ironchin dives on top into guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ironchin wants to control from the top but Karlsson keeps moving.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Karlsson looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Ironchin puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Ironchin working the head and body with strikes.
Karlsson is trying to control but can't.
Karlsson is trying to get back to full guard.

Karlsson actively working from the bottom here.
Karlsson takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

Ironchin postures up and decides to stand up, from the half guard. The ref calls for Karlsson to stand up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Ironchin tries for a takedown but Karlsson circles away easily
enabling Karlsson to counter with a crisp jab.
Karlsson fails to land the takedown.
Ironchin doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Karlsson counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Ironchin's guard now.
Karlsson is pushing down on Ironchin's leg trying to pass to half guard. Ironchin is fighting to maintain full guard but Karlsson has managed to sneak the leg through.
Tomas Karlsson has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Clayman Ironchin is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Karlsson throws a strike but Ironchin avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
Karlsson throwing strikes but missing.

And that's the end of the fight!
Tomas Karlsson comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Ironchin has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Marco Blurström scores the fight 29:28
Judge Ben Zyskovitsi scores the fight 29:28
Judge Roosa Järviläinen scores the fight 29:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Clayman Ironchin!