PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Armen Petrosyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lenard Ellis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Petrosyan
vs
Ellis

185 cm
25
200 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

196 cm
20
220 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

Decent wrestler
Great elbows
Very quick

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Instinct

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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Armen Petrosyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Lenard Ellis!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Roosa Järviläinen and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ellis throws a head kick that looked like it stung.

It looks like Armen Petrosyan has been cut.
Ellis lands with a thumping leg kick.
Petrosyan tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Ellis finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.

Petrosyan gets a clinch.
Ellis avoids a wild elbow strike from Petrosyan.
Petrosyan misses with an elbow over the top.
Petrosyan throws a knee to the head but misses.
Petrosyan lands a good knee to the midsection. Ellis won't want to take too many of those.
Petrosyan looks to throw an elbow but misses.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Petrosyan just misses with a elbow thrown towards Ellis's brow.
Petrosyan misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Ellis.
Petrosyan tries a knee to the head but Ellis blocks it.
Ellis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Petrosyan pushes off an throws an elbow but Ellis leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Petrosyan throws an elbow that misses.
Petrosyan pushes off an throws an elbow but Ellis leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ellis working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Petrosyan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Ellis's defenses.
Ellis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A left hand lands to the body for Ellis.
Petrosyan throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Petrosyan definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Ellis blocks an elbow strike.
Petrosyan utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Petrosyan misses with a knee strike.
Petrosyan misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Ellis.
Petrosyan misses with a hook from the clinch.
Petrosyan throws an elbow that misses.
With the fighters up against the cage, Petrosyan throws an elbow but misses.
Petrosyan missing with knees to the body.
Petrosyan misses with an elbow strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Petrosyan.

It looks like Lenard Ellis has been cut.
Petrosyan throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Ellis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Petrosyan tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Ellis avoids the elbow strike from Petrosyan, against the cage.
Petrosyan pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Petrosyan tries to land a knee to the head but Ellis blocks with his arms.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ellis takes a knee to the side of the body.
Petrosyan tries to land knees in the clinch but Ellis avoids the damage to the body.
Ellis blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Ellis blocks the elbow strike.
Petrosyan lands a nice knee to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Ellis creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Ellis avoiding damage as Petrosyan throws knees to the body.
A nice left hand lands by Ellis.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ellis lands with a right to the head.
Petrosyan misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Ellis.
Petrosyan trying to land knees to the body.
Petrosyan misses with a knee strike.
Petrosyan pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Petrosyan has a couple of punches blocked by Ellis.
Petrosyan's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

Petrosyan is rocked!
A hook to the body from Ellis.
Oh Petrosyan is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Ellis lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Petrosyan to his knees! Ellis keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lenard Ellis!